<p>Do you guys know how often the essay questions to most programs change? I am still an undergrad and probably won’t be seeking matriculation until no earlier than Fall 2013 possibly later, but if I want to attend the top schools I should get started early right?</p>
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<p>No.</p>
<p>The apps are going to ask questions that help define you and your career goals.</p>
<p>Right now you are nothing but an academic who has done nothing but live, breathe, and eaten academia BS. You have probably been told how smart you are 100s of times, challenged and mastered your academic goals, and won the hearts of parents, principals, and deans through out the past 16 or so years. So what are you going to tell them? </p>
<p>It would be like asking a 6th grader what college they want to go to… they don’t even know what high school has in store for them. Imagine what the University of Life is going to teach you. Your early career will be full of mentors, hurtful bosses, difficult and real challenges, firings/lay offs, promotions, good reviews, bad reviews, world adventures, whatever… You will learn many things about how the world works, how and why different types of people behave a certain way (including yourself), and why exactly what you thought the career you choose sucks or doesn’t.</p>
<p>The MBA is going to turn you from an employee into a leader, but you have to be an employee first. Right now you are a student. If you write that paper now it will be evident.</p>
<p>What you can do is start a journal of your thoughts on your career, education, behaviors, emotions, reactions and actions, dreams and aspirations, and when it comes time to write the essays reflect on those past thoughts.</p>
<p>Did you start writing college admissions essays in middle school?</p>
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<p>Please, don’t answer that…</p>
<p>I could have sworn I responded last night. I’m going crazy.</p>
<p>I wish I was mastering every academic challenged thrown my way. I got off to an abysmal start. </p>
<p>I feel that I have matured and learned a vast amount in the short span of a few years. I actually have had my share of jack ass supervisors who really didn’t care about my welfare despite their assertions, but I won’t argue that I’ll experience way more when I graduate and start working permanently full time. As far as academia BS, trust I’m the last person who caters to the rhetoric haha!</p>
<p>And I actually did start keeping a journal last year, but I haven’t had time to write in it for a while. I just started thinking it would be beneficial to start jotting down exactly what you said (japher) to help when I start writing my essays.</p>
<p>Appreciate the feedback.</p>