Common App Short Answer

Every Thursday night a motley crew congregates in the Elm Street Mezzanine under the generally forsaken banner of “Exeter Republican Club.” Despite the palpably disapproving responses I always get from faculty and friends who learn I am a co-head, I would not trade these weekly two-hour meetings for a straight-11 GPA. Our club has a wide draw – we have our southern gentleman, our “midwestern prick”, our east-coast communists, and our mentor, Philip Tisdall, the club’s libertarian nucleus. Philip is a pathologist, and his patients die if he misdiagnoses them. These stakes have led him to a Zen-like state of egolessness which depends on conflict; his friends are those who disagree with him. It is this mentality that unites our club and gives us our one rule: Don’t be offended. Most of us grow up believing what our family believes, uncritically adopt this default position, and then work backwards to justify it. But we seek truth, not approval. Also, we think the Democrats and their rancid ideology must be ground to dust at all costs.