essay help!

[jeeYeon]

<p>for my main essay, should i write a serious, “heart-wrenching” essay about my “struggles” in life or should i write about a less serious, witty, essay on growing up in a different culture?</p>

[idad]

<p>Can you work any of those themes into one of the supplied prompts? That might be interesting and show you can work with ideas in creative ways.</p>

[Kt_Kegon]

<p>whichever is more “You” would be my advice. haha…</p>

[Venkat89]

<p>which ever one will keep an adcom’s attention and will not make him/her feel awkward.</p>

[dally]

<p>I, personally, think serious essays can very easily get melodramatic… but I would pick the one that jibes with you the best. You seem to be leaning towards the less-serious one, so that’s the one I’d say to go for.</p>

[idad]

<p>This was posted on the Parents forum and I thought it might be helpful.

As a writing teacher, I’d like to make a suggestion based on something written here: that the poster’s D didn’t think there was anything out of the ordinary in her life. Trying to find that special thing can be the kiss of death; the point of the essays, I believe, isn’t to show how special you are, but how you find meaning in ordinary things–and that’s a skill all writers need. It’s going to come up all the time in any writing course they take. I think it might help essay writers if they don’t think of it as being about themselves, but as being a glimpse of their ability to think about things, and those things could emerge from the most ordinary incidents–it’s the imaginative encounter with a moment that matters, not always the extraordinary life experience, which few seventeen year olds have had.

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[jeeYeon]

<p>thnks everyone. yeah i am leaning toward the less serious one. but i have a friend who applied ea and his essay was all profound and serious. he quoted james joyce and everything, i actually didn’t get what he was saying half the time. >.<</p>