<p>What are some of the things you guys wrote about?</p>
<p>//You have already told us about yourself in the Common Application, with its list of activities, the Short Answer, and the Personal Essay. While we leave the topic of your second essay entirely up to you, try telling us something about yourself that you believe we cannot learn elsewhere in your application. Please limit yourself to fewer than 500 words.//</p>
<p>I wrote about how my studies in art have influenced my academic life by allowing me to see the beauty behind subjects and completely immerse myself in project. I focused mainly on the similarities between math, science and art- how both have patterns that mesmerize and compel me to study them. so basically how I channel the creativity I use in my paintings to excel in academics. My other essay was humorous and light hearted about being only 4 foot ten.</p>
<p>I wrote about my favorite book, Dandelion Wine, and its impact on me and my lifestyle. I was just trying to choose something different, but we’ll see.</p>
<p>I worte about my scientific research, and how it was inspired by personal circumstances</p>
<p>I wrote about my experience moving from New Jersey to Florida my sophomore year of high school and how it changed me. It’s not my favorite/best essay in the world, which is unfortunate, but I absolutely loved my primary essay. It was about the influence of comedy on my lifestyle and philosophy, which will hopefully set me apart from the crowd. So I’m content :)</p>
<p>I wrote a pretty lighthearted essay about my “first true love”–math–and how it pushed me to become interested in many other subjects.</p>
<p>Hahah that sounds adorablee. :)</p>
<p>I have a kind of stupid question. I really didn’t know what to do for this essay–I was bored out of my mind doing events, books…etc. that influenced me. So I wrote a really kinda random essay…covering several things about me. </p>
<p>Like this is the third sentence: I am the loud voice that reverberates across an amphitheater during an inter-school meet; the quite awe that spends hours reading technology blogs admiring Steve Jobs; the persistent horse rider getting off the ground where I had been ungracefully dropped for the inestimable time. </p>
<p>…and on and onnn…</p>
<p>Do you guys think it’s lame? Like not cool because it doesn’t focus on a certain aspect of me?</p>
<p>it’s not lame or anything, i mean it’s just a unique style. but i’m slightly confused … lol. i’m sure it would make sense in the whole context of your essay though.</p>
<p>Hahah yeaaah, placing a random sentence wasn’t the smartest idea :P</p>
<p>But I didn’t want to force you guys to read like a paragraph…just give you an idea of how it enumerates several different activities I do, things I like…and stuff like that?</p>
<p>“I am the loud voice that reverberates across an amphitheater during an inter-school meet; the quite awe that spends hours reading technology blogs admiring Steve Jobs; the persistent horse rider getting off the ground where I had been ungracefully dropped for the inestimable time.”</p>
<p>Sounds like you’re forcing yourself to write “eloquently” in that third sentence (as in, it seems like you’re using a thesaurus to sound more sophisticated).</p>
<p>Stop that. Just write. Be yourself.</p>
<p>here’s a tip for you RDers for the yale supplement
<em>from the yale website</em>
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<p>translation: keep it under 500 or you might **** us off because we have 40,000 more essays to read</p>
<p>I wrote about my belief that justice can someday be a science and my desire to help get us there.</p>
<p>I wrote about a sunday school class that I taught and how I came to really understand why I love teaching when I was forced to confront a particularly onery (hope I spelled that right) kid.</p>
<p>i wrote about winning my first nobel prize</p>
<p>i wrote about going to zee moon</p>
<p>I wrote about smoking pot with my mom on Tuesdays.</p>
<p>^nice…
I wrote about being abandoned by a parent…</p>
<p>Mine was about linguistics… how the dictionary is my favourite book… (I put down linguistics as my prospective major on the app)</p>
<p>A philosophical question I had while ordering pizza.</p>
<p>When I apply in a year, I will write about how being a twin has shaped my personality.</p>