Is My Dad Right??

T26E4
Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:22:19 +0000

I like NSM’s advice for you to trust your instincts. I wrote a risky essay which was part of a file that got me accepted at my HYP alma mater. There was no prompt or question I had to answer – it was just an open topic.

For some reason, the first thing that came to me was to recount about how I had foolishly “outed” one of my best friends in HS. I did it without thinking, with no intent to be malicious. I wrote about what I did to mend the friendship thereafter. that’s it.

In retrospect (I re-read it cleaning out old papers in my garage), I think it showed a 17 year old who was self-reflective, willing to be self-effacing, and sensitive to the world around him.

Good luck to you.