Application
Name: Stephanie
Age: 19
Location: Atlanta, GA
Destination: your local bookstore (in the form of a genius book of poems)
Three Things You Enjoy: writing, organic yogurt with grape-nuts, myself
Three Things You Detest: phonies, liars, papercuts
Your Favorite Bodily Organ: my liver - it cleanses me
Instrument of Choice: pencil
Weapon of Choice: dull fork
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Last five movies you watched:
1. Hamlet
2. Super Size Me
3. American Splendor
4. Mean Girls
5. Notting Hill
Last five books you read:
1. Savage Beauty
2. The Life of Pi
3. The Bell Jar
4. Oryx and Crake
5. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003
Last ten songs you listened to:
1. Embrace Me You Child - Joni Mitchell
2. Barely (if at all) - The Verve Pipe
3. We Have No Secrets - Joni Mitchell
4. A Kiss to Build a Dream On - Jimmy Durante
5. The Freshmen - The Verve Pipe
6. Come Back to Bed - John Mayer
7. Underneath - Hanson
8. If You Don’t Don’t - Jimmy Eat World
9. America - Simon and Garfunkel
10. That's The Way - Led Zeppelin
Last three albums you purchased:
1. The Killers
2. Modest Mouse
3. Simon and Garfunkel
I rarely buy albums. Rarely, as in never.
Last four albums you pirated:
1. Ani DiFranco
2. Elliot Smith
3. The Virgin Suicides
4. Dar Williams
Did you feel guilty?: Not one bit.
Three favorite artists:
1. Pablo Picasso (early drawings, not cubism stuff)
2. Pablo Neruda (Soneto 71)
3. Leonardo da Vinci (I saw the exhibit at the Met in 2002. It was amazing. The shading, dear lord, the shading! His sketches floored me.)
Four favorite authors:
1. J.D. Salinger
2. Margaret Atwood
3. Edna St. Vincent Millay
4. Ayn Rand
Your favorite play [theatre]: 21A
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Most elaborate scheme to injure someone: I try not to injure others. I injure myself enough. But, if you really want to know, mixing bleach and ammonia in a sleeping person’s room. And maybe cutting off the electricity, placing a book of matches by her bed, and turning on the gas stove without lighting the burners.
Most effective way to avoid conflict: Let it fester like a wound.
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Grade Point Average: 4.0
ACT score: 33 composite
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Your Talent: falling
You are not good at: social interaction
Your Political Party Affiliation: Independent
Why?: I vote for the platform, not the party. Sure, the platform is usually party agenda, but I don’t want to be pigeonholed by an affiliation.
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At least 4 pictures of you:
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Why do you think you belong here?: Because I want to be. Plus, it would a tremendous boost to my ego. Also, I figured, “When trying to be in a group for the first time, why not go for the gold?”