Common App Essay 1

1. Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.

I could talk about piano. I could talk about my Asian heritage. I could talk about what it's like to be a straight girl in highschool, although I'd be able to say two sentences, maybe. I could talk about music in general, or idk, go.

But let's talk about the community I'm invested the most in, the community I've found the longest friends, made the best friendships, and discovered myself the most. Let's talk about the gaming community. (as it pertains to me.)

My earliest memories of elementary school are faded and scattered. I remember walking through the hallways silently, as a teacher informed a line of 5th graders how badly they were misbehaving compared to the stoic line of 5-yearolds passing by. I remember running around by myself in the soccer field... chasing butterflies. I remember chasing boys around the playground as a gaggle of girls... God I wish I could erase that memory. How embarrassing. But I don't remember any of these people. Well, I still know one, but he was a family friend. We play league of legends together sometimes now, and went to Animazement earlier this year. (Austin)

I remember finding some words in the bathroom when I was in first grade and telling my parents about them. I attended a different school for 2nd grade.

At this school, I remember exactly two people. I remembered these people until I saw them again years later, their names, what they looked like, whatever, stuff. We used to talk about pokemon together during recess. We looked at cards and stuff. I'm still friends with Vinit, and Ayush... I recognized... We don't talk a lot though.

Alright my memory sucks but I remember.

What am I talking about?

for some reason im very tired now

oh geez I'm thinking too much about the common application

ok i just came back from doing laundry

whew

calm down

casual writing

whewwwwwwwwwwwww

let's just talk about league of legends screw it. that stuff up there is trash. factual, but factual trash.

OH NO FROGGEN NOOOOOOO

GO ELEMENTS TAKE REVENGE ON THE SLAYER OF THE MIGHTY FROGGEN, MASTER OF THE BIRD WORD AND OF THE ARROWS OF VARUS

yeah im watching a game right now lol SK vs EL i'll write who wins once it's over

hmmmmm i don't know what to do. It's like I can't quite bring myself to admit I live in the real world. I'm perfectly okay talking to myself or to other people who live in the same world as me.. the one where we've made up and established the rules.

i'm still very tired

I slept at 4am last night and I was so incredibly awake. Started a movie at 11, finished at 1, played league until 4, watched like 5 minutes of LCS before falling asleep, woke up at 7 and snoozed until 9.

T_T tireeeddddddddddd

maybe i should take a nap

NO I MUST WRITE THIS ESSAY

COMMON APP YOU SHALL NOT DEFEAT ME TODAY

I WILL DISCOVER THE RULES IN THIS UNRULY GAME OF MAO

lemme write an essay

Okay I need structure.

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wut do

I suppose ...

This is mainly about me. Let's see how gaming has infiltrated my entire life in all of its aspects:

Intelligence - very smart people play games. Maybe we could find some statistics about this and make ourselves sound smart lol

i almost fell asleep again

i want to watch an anime any suggestions guys no ok maybe i should watch that schoollife anime where the pregnant girl is cut open by the jealous girl because the jealous girl realized the pregnant girl was lying about being pregnant and was actually not, which was verified when she was cut open. then the jealous girl walks off into the sunset holding the head of the guy that everyone wanted to date

or something

they were like freshmen in high school...

nah.

maybe i should try black butler again...

nah...

Character - I have learned so much about people and so much about myself by playing games...

asleep

again

geeeeeeez what do I do?

Decision making - games require snap decisions and team play

Research - gameplay requires prior knowledge of opponents and their skills and even skill-level

idk im bsing stuff again

i try not to bs stuff actually... maybe that's bad

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

tired 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XBJeisnS9M <- a link for fun

My LCS teams are Counter Logic Gaming and Elements. Their names are awesome. (y)

LCS - League Champion Series

I really hope future me doesn't forget what the LCS is. I guess she might. Hey, you, I'm talking about you. Do you remember DoubleLift? Do you remember Aphro? The best botlane of the best botlanes (of NA lol) DoubleLift with his amazing life story? How crap a kid he was, and how he was basically adopted by the League of Legends championship series people and how league is literally his life, all he has, and all he knows how to do? How double lift is the name of a magic trick that I tried to copy and failed horribly at? (Kevin Gao idk how you do it. magic is magical) Or Aphromoo, the amazing support who started as a YouTuber ... or a streamer (im always on youtube so i wouldn't know the difference). Aphro with the personality, the plays, the confidence.

Geez i need to get a life. Is this any different than obsessing with standard celebrities though? Like, I don't know anything about any famous singer's life. It's like, a trade-off. I'm wasting about the same amount of brain power, pretty sure, so who cares?

I need to shut off the heating in this room.. i think it's broken it smells like burning. Or a really old cotton pillow. That's very dusty and musty. (i keep ctrl-s-ing idk if that does anything for the post i think it autosaves)

(back)

so those two people are basically the foundation of team CLG.

Team EL is formed around the midlaner, Froggen. EL used to be Alliance. Froggen used to be on Evil Geniuses, which used to be CLG EU. Just a coincidence, really. But Froggen is amazing. Used to have a well-accepted reputation as the best mid-laner in Europe. Elements isn't the no. 1 team rn, but Froggen is still doing great. (watching a game in the background rn and Froggen has 5 out of the 5 team kills)

 whew maybe i should sleep early.

I brought a fridge to my dorm room, finally, so I got a jar of smooth peanut butter (idk if crunchy or smooth is better but i think smooth is safer o.o) and some bread, and im gonna have a sandwich for breakfast tomorrow. :)

gonna be a nice change. I usually make an omelet (cheese and sausage) with the microwave, but microwaved eggs don't taste that great, and I got sick of them. I had ramen one morning... Nachos last friday.

yeah this is gonna be a nice change for sure.