<p>After several drafts of all the other essay options, I’m just not happy with any of them, so I’ve decided to risk doing #5. I’ve pretty much written the essay (fine-tuning awaits), but I wanted to run the prompt by some of you to make sure it looks OK. Even if it isn’t, I’m probably going to submit it anyway, because this is my last application and I’m exhausted.</p>
<p>Dave Eggers writes, Trust is fun. It is fun to trust strangers. It is fun to risk what you can reasonably risk–like, your car, or your reputation–on the trust of people you know only through something ephemeral shared, something like taste in books or cartoons, or having watched people suffer. As a society, we are often preoccupied with the concept of trust, unsure whether a stranger will catch us if we fall backward into their arms or think of us badly if our ideology does not echo their own. Fearful of the consequences, we often insist on building a foundation of trust before we expose ourselves for who we are, regardless of the implications. Consider your own ideas surrounding this concept: Would you give your car keys to a stranger, tell them who your crush was in sixth grade, or that you secretly love that one boy band thats just too cute to ignore?</p>
I’m a little worried about my actual essay, though. I feel it’s a little risky (content-wise), but if I tone it down it totally defeats the purpose of the essay. Guess we’ll see how it goes come April!</p>