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<p>So I finished writing one of my college essays today, and there is one part where I say that I don’t want to “measure out my life in coffee spoons.”</p>

<p>Can someone please tell me what they think this means? I want to make sure that the admissions committee understands exactly what I’m saying and so far I’ve gotten ppl who completely understand it and others who are just confused.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Well I really have no context to look to here. I really have no idea what that means. And, unless having the context (at least the rest of the sentence) makes it all make sense, I would say that you should probably change that phrase.</p>

<p>Don’t try to be so fancy will metaphors that you become nebulous.</p>