1. You have a difficult assignment to complete. How do you get it done?
• Look at it a completely new way. Do it backwards if you have to.
• Take your time to mull it over. You'll figure it out if you give yourself space to think.
• Develop a plan outlining how to do small chunks of work at a time.
• Just put your nose to the grindstone and get it done. Nothing is too difficult for you.
• Get a study group together, and have each person contribute their expertise.
2. What are you most likely to do on a free day?
• Write in your journal, go for a long walk alone, or get lost in a book.
• Develop a new recipe, web site, or other creation
• Dabble in a million activities, but get nothing serious done
• Find a couple friends to engage in conversation
• Get all your chores and hobbies done in a timely fashion
3. When it comes to school, what kind of homework assignments do you like best?
• Open ended assignments that allowing you a lot of independent study
• An assignment with many pieces to analyze and draw from
• Difficult problems that take a while to figure out
• A few short problems that test your ability to think of new ideas
• A big project that requires you to work with others
4. You're trying to get into a top grad program. What's your strategy?
• You find a few schools that are less competitive, but very cool, as backups
• You write a killer application essay
• You present your application in a quirky way, marketing yourself as the ideal candidate
• You study hard for the standardized test you need to take - and try to ace it
• You spend a lot of time working on getting great letters of recommendation
5. In class, you are the student who:
• Never misses a class or assignment
• Likes to answer out loud quickly, even to rhetorical questions
• Challenges the ideas that are being taught
• Makes the most friends in class
• Doesn't talk much, but when you do, it's for a long time

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