Mention controversial interest in essay - or sanitize it?

hokiemama24
Sat, 26 Jul 2025 14:26:44 +0000

The backbone of your essay is in this thread, you’ve revealed how you think (your natural thought process looks two or three steps ahead from the onset which is why predictability bores you, you aren’t satisfied with surface skimming knowledge, you excel at games of strategy, you have a 360* perspective, etc) and I personally think it makes it easy to see how that makes you an asset to your interest area of neuroscience (especially research). The work now is in putting that together in 650 words and making it flow in a compelling way that piques their interest about you more than the neuroscience. I think your original post was heading in the direction of research paper and also at risk of sounding like lecturing the reader, as others have stated. For what its worth, “in third grade I wrote a scathing review of the Magic Treehouse books” has the makings of a great opening “hook.”