<p>Fortune, I think the use of sesquipedalian in the essay was great. Heck, I have no idea what it means. But I think he Delirious was using it to show just how flowery and pointless his writing was. Like he was stepping back into his past self at that moment in the essay. I think it was fairly subtle…</p>
<p>Perhaps he wants to major in physics and is showcasing his accomplishments…</p>
<p>would you all please stop ragging on this essay? i know it’s bad. i wasn’t inspired, i forced myself into writing something, and that came through in the writing. thank you for helping me avoid embarassing myself.</p>
<p>since i know you guys are only commenting sarcastically to help me, and that your comments are in no way inspired by any insecurities you guys might have, i think it will assuage your concerns to know that i will be submitting an entirely different essay, this time unrelated to mustard.</p>
<p>I have insecurities; plenty of them…</p>
<p>As a side note, I chose to answer question number four.</p>
<p>Change your choice of words and your concepts. Large mustards are considered “economy size” so they are made to be efficient. Your whole idea is wrong (to me).</p>
<p>ps. you’re on the internet and nobody knows who you are. perhaps you shouldn’t be embrassed so easly.</p>
<p>Sorry, Delirious. I was trying to defend you. </p>
<p>If there’s any way you can work the sequilanpeanswhatever sentence into your new essay, do it. I think it’s good, anyway.</p>
<p>yeah i agree, that sentance is pretty funny, but in the context of the current esasy, its terrible.</p>
<p>Ok I wrote an essay to this prompt as well… I took a “negative” spin on the essay too… Is that bad? </p>
<p>Do you think the prompt is looking at the more positive definitions of excess?</p>
<p>AND most importantly is this essay meant to show a bit about who you are?
Because I don’t think it shows ME so much as my views on consumerism or excess…</p>
<p>Write more about yourself, your activities, your circumstances, who you are.</p>
<p>Can someone please read my mustard essay?</p>
<p>I will send it by email.
Cheers!</p>
<p>Hey uh…all these comments are making me doubt MY essay now…is it alright if I post it on this thread too or should I make a new one? ^^;</p>
<p>what i come away with from chicago essays is that they want you to take a prompt, weird or entirely prosaic, and go beyond the obvious response in both choice of what to say and how you say it. if they mention mustard and conspicuous consumption in the prompt, i don’t think they want every single essay to talk about consumerism. it’s just too easy. go beyond the outward constraints of the essay, the constraints of being an applicant. write about something important to you, simply, and mean it, whether you’re being lighthearted or serious.</p>
<p>what if the essay shows NOTHING about you…and is really cynical O__o</p>
<p>What Sarahbara said.</p>
<p>I think it’s cute</p>
<p>I don’t think Chicago wants somebody who is intellectually “cute”.</p>
<p>I never said they did, I simply stated my opinion on the essay.</p>
<p>i think chicago wants people who are themselves, and if they’re intellectually “cute” and that’s really who they are, then that’s what chicago wants. for this school especially its ridiculous for us to all rag on each others essays. if you don’t know the person who wrote the essay, you can have no idea of whether or not it captures that person, aka, whether or not its a good essay for chicago.</p>
<p>i second indytucker. instead of worrying about what kind of essay chicago wants, why not write an honest essay, that honestly portrays your intellectual type/ability? In any case, if you get in, it was YOU who got in, not some fabricated persona. and if you get rejected, you know that, as your essay was an honest portrayal of yourself, you probably would not have been the best candidate anyway.</p>
<p>I would like to point out that I was admitted to Chicago. I wonder how my critics fared.</p>