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Common App & Stanford Essays

The following are my responses to the main Common App essay and the Stanford application questions. You're welcome to read them to try and understand how I got "in" to Stanford, or just for fun. Whatever you choose to try and take away from these essays, I hope you get something out of them. Or nothing at all, that works too. Enjoy.

A Brief Note

There's no secret formula. There are a lot of people more qualified than me that got denied. Even though they may have been more qualified, I beat them when it came to the essays. The most important part of your application is your essays, so I would encourage you to spend a lot of time on them. Spend time reflecting on who you are and how you can use your essays to communicate that. The readers of the over 40,000 Stanford applicants know a fake essay from a mile away. If you want to have a chance at admission, your essays need to be 100% authentic you, not 90% authentic you and 10% your mom/tutor/fake self.

If you plan to apply, I

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Upgrade e1000e drivers on Ubuntu

Simply run ./upgrade.sh.

Information

Make sure to run shutdown -r now after completing installation.

Also, use lshw -C network to verify the driver installation.

If the driver is still outdated after reboot, make sure /etc/modules contains e1000e.

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input {
    file {
        path => "/minecraft/logs/*/server.log"
        type => "server"

        # stacktrace java as one message
        codec => multiline {
            pattern => "^([0-9\-: ]+ \[[A-Z]+\] )?(((\w+\.)+\w+Exception.*)|((\s|\t)+at .+)|(\s+... \d+ more)|(\s*Caused by:.+))"
            what => "previous"
            multiline_tag => "stacktrace"

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<?php
class Skin {
    public static function get($username) {
        $steve = in_array(strtolower($username), array("steve", "player", "default"));
        if(!$steve) $contents = self::fetch('http://skins.minecraft.net/MinecraftSkins/' . $username . '.png');
        $defaultImage = WideImage::load("char.png");
        $defaultType = "image/png";

        if ($steve || $contents === false) {
            $img = $defaultImage;

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# Configuration generated by NoCheatPlus 3.8.0-RC-b${BUILD_NUMBER}.
savebackconfig: true
logging:
  active: true
  debug: false
  console: true
  file: true
  filename: nocheatplus.log
  ingamechat: true
  usesubscriptions: false

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IFS=$'\n'
for line in $(screen -ls | head -n -2 | sed 1d); do
  screen -r `echo $line | cut -f2`;
done

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Entities that work:

• Arrow
• Bat
• Blaze
• Boat bow charge has no effect, always spawns on player head
• CaveSpider
• Chicken
• Cow
• Creeper
• Egg

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class overcast::mongobackup {
  file { '/root/mongo-backup':
    source => 'puppet:///modules/overcast/mongo-backup',
    mode   => 0755,
  }

  cron { 'daily mongo backup':
    command => '/root/mongo-backup',
    user    => 'root',
    hour    => 4,

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[09:41:22] Dinnerbone:	 For those who care about it: there are new public API routes for name changes
[09:41:38] Dinnerbone:	 https://api.mojang.com/users/profiles/minecraft/KrisJelbring will lookup single name -> uuid
[09:42:04] Dinnerbone:	 https://api.mojang.com/users/profiles/minecraft/KrisJelbring?at=1405612800 will lookup single name -> uuid as of a certain timestamp
[09:42:14] Dinnerbone:	 (So even if he changes his name now, that link will return him)
[09:42:46] Dinnerbone:	 https://api.mojang.com/user/profiles/7125ba8b1c864508b92bb5c042ccfe2b/names will show you all the names a profile has been known by
[09:43:01] Dinnerbone:	 This concludes the public service announcement.