<p>I’d like to study abroad pretty much anywhere. Preferably Australia or New Zealand, or Northern Europe.</p>
<p>I’ll probably just end up studying abroad in Japan. Though it’s not really going to feel like study abroad to me. But still. They have a lot of the research I’m interested in over there.</p>
<p>@quidditch I understand your dislike for K-pop fans. A lot of them can be intolerably annoying. </p>
<p>So I’ve started 3 essays already. The common app, one supplement, and my WoW (Williams) essay. This is going to be a long process…</p>
<p>I want to study abroad in Antarctica, just so I could say I’d been there. But there probably aren’t many classes you could take there.</p>
<p>I’ve started my CA essay. I use “started” very lightly. I start my summer tech class tomorrow. Ugh. I need it to graduate. Blehhhh</p>
<p>I already pretty much wrote my Common App essay, and a couple supplements. Most essays are pretty easy to write except for those awful “Why this college?” ones. They seem to want obscure hipster reasons rather than the actual reason you’re applying, which is usually something like “uh…it’s a good school, I guess.”</p>
<p>My CA essay sounds like a stuffy 80 year old. I swear. Just to keep it with 650 words.lol. </p>
<p>it’s pretty challenging when you’ve had a lot of mistakes you’ve learned from when I’m doing the first prompt. ugh. maybe i should choose a different one. but i have to write a similar essay for the UCs. </p>
<p>None of the colleges on my list have their supplements up yet. 
Unless Wellesley’s prompt never changes.</p>
<p>lol for some of my schools I really don’t have much of a reason except “my guidance counselor told me I needed to have more “match schools” so I looked for ones that actually had my major”</p>
<p>the rest of my schools aren’t too hard for me to answer “why this school” except for URochester, which requires it to be 125 words - too short!</p>
<p>Yeah I agree. Those Why X essays are a pain. I’m just like, why not?</p>
<p>I haven’t started any of them…I feel like I have to do some sort of deep soul-searching to write a good essay.</p>
<p>^ Same. It shouldn’t take 4+ hours to write an essay and a large chunk of that time is me staring in front of the computer thinking of something to write.</p>
<p>Glad I already finished my CA essay in my AP Lang class. It was about a failure of one of my old online businesses.</p>
<p>I have a question for everyone; would it be a mistake to make my common application essay humorous?</p>
<p>It would be a mistake to intentionally make it humorous. If you think of something funny, write it down. Don’t try to force it.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that if you’re naturally funny, your essay will be also and that’s okay. But if you are not naturally funny, it’s not the time to start.</p>
<p>I will keep that in mind. Thank you! </p>
<p>I have an idea for the last topic on the essays, the one asking to write about an event (formal or informal) that marked a transition from childhood to adulthood. I would like to discuss the first time I stayed home alone and what that entailed, bad idea?</p>
<p>^ If you had to fight the Wet Bandits, it should make a great essay.</p>
<p>Haha not exactly, but the neighbors did have a break in (of all nights) I woke up to police lights and the measures I took to make sure the house was secure were a bit drastic.</p>
<p>^ LOL</p>
<p>10char</p>
<p>So, go for it? :D</p>
<p>Yea, sounds better than the “And I scored the game winning goal” garbage.</p>