Aleksander Jagiello TheMolkaPL

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

Changelog

29 August 2017

- Change script back to working on Stratus, and detect server within the script itself

2 February 2017

- Changed script to be server neutral

15 July 2016

Tweaked report LOG format

In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:

http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/

It became a big deal:

http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1

The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)

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	//to start the mongodb service
	net start MongoDB

	//to enter mongodb service (this is necessary to start the mongo service)
	mongo

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	public static final byte LIME = 0x5;

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	# Copyright 2015 Kevin Phoenix. All rights reserved.
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	import shutil

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	import net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.Packet205ClientCommand;
	import net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.Packet24MobSpawn;

	package com.comphenix.example;

	import java.util.HashSet;
	import java.util.Iterator;
	import java.util.Set;

	import org.bukkit.Bukkit;
	import org.bukkit.OfflinePlayer;
	import org.bukkit.entity.Player;
	import org.bukkit.plugin.Plugin;

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