Yalies: how did you make your essays awesome?

<p>Another idea: write it in really really [size=1]small print<a href=“as%20it%20makes%20the%20reader%20pay%20really%20close%20attention”>/size</a> and write it in overlapping spirals to show how your thoughts weave in and out and interconnect with each other. Each sentence should start at the center…using a different color…as they spiral out to create an overall flower effect which is an allegory for how you bloomed as a student and writer.</p>

<p>Or, if spirals seem too mundane, write your essay so that it forms the silhouette of a unicorn (if your essay is about unicorns, that is) or better still, cut out a portrait of yourself and write the essay around that silhouette – up the back of your neck, around the cowlick, through the part, zipping over the forehead (making sure not to pop the zit), blazing a new trail through the unibrow, skiing down the slope of your nose, rappeling over the lips, and using the chin to create some dramatic tension before garroting things at the neck. They’ll think you’re a genius. Guaranteed.</p>