College Apps

Surprisingly, this was a good weekend. Better than I’ve had in a long time.

It helped that I had almost no homework.

And that I didn’t have to do Mid-state auditions.

In any case, I woke up around 11 on both Saturday and Sunday. I spent a good part of both days playing on my various computers.

However, I also managed to get some serious work on college apps done. As in, I submitted two this weekend. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a college near Boston, sent me one of those e-mails where they offer you a “custom” application. I think it’s a result of National Merit Semi-finalist goodness. In any case, they waved the application fee and the essay prompt was generic enough that I could use my MIT essay (more on essay recycling later), so I went ahead and applied.

I also reused the MIT essay on my application for Columbia, so I finished that one off and sent it in. All that’s left there is an interview…and giving Mrs. Krinks and Ms. Howell the recommendation paperwork (whoops!).

I also made major progress on the Carnegie-Mellon (aka Common) App. All that’s left is an essay for the supplement where I talk about how much I love computers.

So about this whole thing of recycling essays. It’s awesome. Seriously. Write one good (well, decent at least), generic essay, and you can use it anywhere. So far, I’ve used the long essay I wrote for the MIT application on the apps for WPI, Carnegie-Mellon, Caltech, and Columbia. And if I end up applying to UTK, I’ll use it there too.

Of course, there’s still the issue of the Stanford essays, which are really a pain.

So now it’s almost midnight, and it’s time to start the cycle of suffering just one more time.

Oh how I love being an exam-exempt senior.