<p>Chronicidal- my main essay was especially unique, yeah. I did last year’s Miles Davis prompt, and wrote a fictitious historical essay analyzing the history and importance of the party hat in history. Loved it and worked really hard on that essay, and apparently it worked. I thought it was funny and creative and that it let my… general essence and spirit shine through. I did get a comment from one of my english teachers editing it along the lines of
“Grace, this is an amazing essay, but… don’t send this to a normal school.”</p>
<p>Not that I’m advocating that YOU all write fictional histories of everyday objects, I’m just saying what I did.
My other two were pretty straightforward- for the “things I like” essay I did a compare/contrast of my three favorite pieces of music, Emmanuel Chabrier’s “Espana”, Mars from Holst’s “Planets”, and the 1st movement of the concerto suite for electric guitar and orchestra by Yngwie Malmsteen.
My “why Chicago” essay was my favorite to write. It was basically just exactly why I wanted to go to Chicago layed out in essay format- got a little personal, which is out of character for me, but it did detail exactly why and how badly I wanted to go.</p>