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exFAT support on macOS seems to have some bugs because my external drives with exFAT formatting will randomly get corrupted.

If Disk Utility is unable to repair, consider trying this:

In Disk Utility, ensure that the drive is not mounted, eject it if it is mounted.
Use diskutil list to find the right drive id.
You want the id under the IDENTIFIER column, it should look like disk1s1
Run sudo fsck_exfat -d <id from above>. eg sudo fsck_exfat -d disk1s3
-d is debug so you'll see all your files output as they're processed.

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

	import org.bukkit.Bukkit;
	import org.bukkit.entity.Player;
	import org.bukkit.inventory.meta.SkullMeta;

	import java.lang.reflect.Field;
	import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
	import java.lang.reflect.Method;

	public class SkullUtils {
	private static String serverVersion;

	/*
	* Copyright (c) 2015 Nate Mortensen
	*
	* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	* of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	* in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	* to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
	* copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
	* furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
	*

	class ChatColor
	@@color_char = "\u00A7"

	def initialize(code)
	@code = code
	end

	def +(str)
	to_str + str
	end

	#!/bin/bash

	MONGO_DATABASE="your_db_name"
	APP_NAME="your_app_name"

	MONGO_HOST="127.0.0.1"
	MONGO_PORT="27017"
	TIMESTAMP=`date +%F-%H%M`
	MONGODUMP_PATH="/usr/bin/mongodump"
	BACKUPS_DIR="/home/username/backups/$APP_NAME"

	/*
	* Copyright (C) 2012
	*
	* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	* of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	* in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	* to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
	* copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
	* furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
	*

	<?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;

	package com.darkblade12.particledemo.particle;

	import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
	import java.lang.reflect.Field;
	import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
	import java.lang.reflect.Method;
	import java.util.HashMap;
	import java.util.Map;

	import org.bukkit.Bukkit;

	'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the racks
	Not a server was alerting, not even Compaqs.
	The backups were written to tapes with care
	In hopes that later the data would be there.

	The machines were nestled all snug in their sleds
	Whilst visions of vengeance danced in their heads;
	And oncall in his three-wolf and I in my rack.
	Had just settled down for some syn and some ack.