Friday 26 October, 2007 at 12:23:39 am
filed under personal, school
Upon finally getting around to filling out my first application, I’ve had the rather nasty surprise of discovering that there’s just not enough fucking room. After all this emphasis on being genuinely passionate and putting in a real commitment to a small number of things, it’s a bit disheartening to realize that one can’t actually tell anybody about it. If (as I’ve been lead to believe) everything I’ve done so far on this earth has been for the goal of strengthening this application, then entire years of my life have just been wasted by a parsimonious bit of HTML.
I guess I’m really just now being hit with the ludicrousness of the entire process; the idea that entire lives can be contained by this series of little boxes: 300 characters for every book I read in the past year; 600 characters for the boy scouts; just enough space in the job section to let them know I’m a “Programmer at Lawrence”.
Then again, I suppose there’s really no other way to do it. I’m just looking forward more than ever to having the entire process done with.
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