<p>Does anyone have any advice on how to structure this essay? Is it okay for it to be more of a conglomerate of thoughts and less a structured and focused (on one topic) essay? I’m pretty stumped on this one.</p>
<p>bump bump bump!
also v. confused
I made a list because that was my initial reaction to the word “share”</p>
<p>I picked my favorite thing from 3 categories and wrote a short “paragraph” on each.</p>
<p>My D2 wrote about two different things to share last year (she was accepted EA). She ended up with two paragraphs, one on each item. One was a book and one was an artist. Hers was really pretty straightforward, for each item she talked a little about what it was (in case they weren’t familiar to the reader) and then a few sentences describing why she likes them so much.</p>
<p>I wrote 2/3 of a page in paragraph form, with each paragraph generally focused on one of movies, books, music, and websites. I did it all at once, no edits, and consequently with a typo or two - yet I still was accepted EA, probably indicating that they don’t expect much from it. Because I didn’t edit thoroughly though, my voice was genuine and showed in the essay - although none of my essays sounded stiff, this one was especially informal. All simple declarative sentences, one after the other, that gave insight into what I liked and why I liked them.</p>
<p>My biggest question when writing this essay was whether to make it a list or prose; I figured that, although they don’t specify, writing in prose will let you elaborate on your ideas which you can’t do in a list. For example, it’s much more informative to write about why you enjoy reading the works of J.R.R Tolkien than to just list Tolkien as a favorite author, and it gives insight to the adcom on how you think, which always makes you seem more interesting.</p>
<p>Once I arrived on campus, I noticed my roommate shared many of my interests which I didn’t have space to mention on the housing form, so they may look at it for housing purposes once you’re accepted.</p>
<p>I made an eclectic list of some of my interests. The prompt specifically states that I could add my own categories, so I made sure to take advantage of that.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help, everyone!</p>