Essay Time!

So, after a ghastly essay season in fall 2007 where I managed to get myself rejected from a bunch of colleges, I find myself in a similar situation again. This time, its Google/MS to whom I should be bragging without seeming like I’m bragging. Although these two have assumed that freshmen are losers, I plan to turn in an app because my chances will go from 0.005 to 0 if I don’t bother applying. 

Google wants me to babble about the toughest CS chanllenge I’ve faced. I am in this dilemma now:

So, making a decision shouldn’t be so hard. It is pretty stupid though, just 2 to choose from. 
I then have to spew crap about what I really like in CS. I actually know what I like, I just don’t know enough about it. I like Quantum computing, but only because I feel the Church-Turing thesis might be invalidated or we may be forced to get factoring to work in polynomial time. I just know that. I just know decoherence is a PITA. 
I might be aiming too high…. but I guess it is like me setting standards for myself… more like “I need to get there” thingy.

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Published:
09.26.08 / 8pm
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Computer Science, python