Prompt: Virtually all of Stanford's undergraduates live on campus. Write a note to your future roommate that reveals something about you or that will help your roommateïand usïknow you better.
My essay: (2000 characters max)
Since I have never had a roommate before, my perception of what it's like to live with myself may be slightly distorted, but I will try to elaborate on why I would make a good roommate.
The most defining property of me as a roommate is that I am easy to talk to. There is little I am not interested in, and I'm great to talk to about literature, science, mathematics, philosophy, politics, history and languages. I am impossible to offend, very easy-going, and since I speak English, German, Hebrew and Russian and understand most Romanic languages, there is a good chance that my roommate and me won't have a hard time conversing in their native language if it happens not to be English.
Furthermore, I produce very little noise, for I do not usually listen to music while working. Since I like staying up until late at night, waking up late, and generally am more of a nocturnal type of person, I guess that's a quite relevant property of mine. It also attributes to the fact that I can easily ensure the absence of sleep-impeding mosquitoes at night. I feel obliged to also mention that I have a slight aversion to spiders, and prefer to "take care" of those in my proximity ï with as little complaining as my arachnophobia permits.
Lastly, I would like to say that I am a very humorous person and I love joking. While some people told me that they don't know whether or not I'm being serious half of the time, I can but hope that this is not too bad, especially considering that the other people I talked with deemed the former ones as lacking a sense of humor. One minor quirk of mine is that sometimes, I might have a hard time to stop laughing, but other than that, I think I am a person that is easy to live with ï keeping in mind, of course, the objectivity I can or cannot maintain while judging myself.
Any ideas how to improve it and on whether it's appropriate for Stanford?
My essay: (2000 characters max)
Since I have never had a roommate before, my perception of what it's like to live with myself may be slightly distorted, but I will try to elaborate on why I would make a good roommate.
The most defining property of me as a roommate is that I am easy to talk to. There is little I am not interested in, and I'm great to talk to about literature, science, mathematics, philosophy, politics, history and languages. I am impossible to offend, very easy-going, and since I speak English, German, Hebrew and Russian and understand most Romanic languages, there is a good chance that my roommate and me won't have a hard time conversing in their native language if it happens not to be English.
Furthermore, I produce very little noise, for I do not usually listen to music while working. Since I like staying up until late at night, waking up late, and generally am more of a nocturnal type of person, I guess that's a quite relevant property of mine. It also attributes to the fact that I can easily ensure the absence of sleep-impeding mosquitoes at night. I feel obliged to also mention that I have a slight aversion to spiders, and prefer to "take care" of those in my proximity ï with as little complaining as my arachnophobia permits.
Lastly, I would like to say that I am a very humorous person and I love joking. While some people told me that they don't know whether or not I'm being serious half of the time, I can but hope that this is not too bad, especially considering that the other people I talked with deemed the former ones as lacking a sense of humor. One minor quirk of mine is that sometimes, I might have a hard time to stop laughing, but other than that, I think I am a person that is easy to live with ï keeping in mind, of course, the objectivity I can or cannot maintain while judging myself.
Any ideas how to improve it and on whether it's appropriate for Stanford?