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Fairy Feller Fancy Vice Captain
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 Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:05 pm
... That's the title of my Holocaust Scholarship essay.
And I submitted it today. And I'm scared shitless. I hate this feeling I get like, "I'm a bad writer. You missed the point of the prompt completely."
See, normally, I look at scholarships and just pass them up. This is one that I really wanted to do. I'm a Holocaust buff, so I wanted to do this.
The trip to D.C. to see the Holocaust Memorial Museum has nothing to do with my entering. Nothing. But that's a lie. xd
Oh, I'm so ******** anxious.
Don't you just hate submitting things and worrying if they'll turn out right or wrong?
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:16 pm
Ya know, I get that feeling a lot, too. Like for this one essay I wrote on a film, I sorta had a thesis statement thing at the top that layed out what this one guy ended up teaching his students, but I didn't exactly bring up those terms again, even though I addressed them throughout the paper. I had to get my brother to proofread it 'cause I was so worried about it, but I still got a 93 on it (woo! xd ).
You'll probably be fine. I think it's just something everyone goes through when they're submitting a somewhat important essay.
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:28 pm
My mom was on a scholarship judging committee for several years, and i got a decent look at the process first-hand. They can tell who really thought about the essay, who didn't, and who poured their entire heart and soul into the thing. If you really wanted to do this, it will be reflected in the essay. And sometimes they like it if you miss the entire point of the prompt. They like a fresh look sometimes. Don't worry.
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:46 am
I had five people proof read it... xd and I think my mom is going crazy. "Torey, they don't like commas much. They indicate a pause in the paper."
"Mum... the commas are necessary where I put them. Not all of the time, either. They're used for conjuctions, inserting a seperate thought into the paper and so on."
"Not all of them. -marks things-"
I really just ignored hers when she gave it back to me... The one I really followed were my dad's and grandma's suggestions. They had great ones... while my twin brother was more hard on with adding more suitable words and such and my grandpa wanting gory details (and then following along with his wife's suggestions. XD)
I'm just worried, I suppose. I'll do fine... I hope.
The last paper I wrote and really poured myself into before this one was about the Silent Era of Hollywood Film.
Thanks for your kind words, guys. xd
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Fairy Feller Fancy Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:01 pm
i'm resurrecting this thread, because i'm too lazy to make a new one, and it's slightly pertinent. i went to the Holocaust Museum yesterday. And i'm really upset about it, because you'd think that at a conference like this, we'd all be mature youngish ladies and gentlemen. So, why the HELL did i hear Jewish jokes in the elevator? And elsewhere? God, it makes me sick sometimes, the way people behave... It also upset me how many little kids there were. i was standing next to a three-year-old by an exhibit of the medical experiments... why would a parent want to expose a three-year-old to such horrific images? The kid was crying and asking what was wrong with the people, and everything, it wasn't like he wasn't paying attention. i don't think i understand it all, though. How could anybody do that to people?
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Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:05 pm
That's the one play on earth that I want to go. That, and Auschwitz. I've spent four years of my life now devoted to finding out as much as I can about the Holocaust. I feel the next step is to actually go there.
And yes. You'll always find those that make jokes about Jews while at something like that. I've been to a Rememberance festival, and I couldn't believe some of the things I was hearing. I almost got in a fight with this one girl that said it never happened. And here we were, meeting some people that were there and seeing photos taken from the time.
I'm not going to say that I'm not guilty of making jokes about the Holocaust-- I am. I've never made them in a place like that, though. It's inapropriate and pisses me off.
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