<p>Put it on dayglo pink paper, crumple it up before flattening it and putting it in the mail, use a really expensive, nice-smelling perfume, use a cool font that nobody else uses, and start it off with “It was a dark and rainy night…” then cross it out because that would be incredibly funny and crossed out words don’t count against the word limit. Well, I’m not sure about the word count part, but the rest of this is solid gold.</p>
<p>Oh, and be yourself…which generally means you shouldn’t follow the advice of anonymous people on a message board about how to write your essay. I think, in the case of my advice, you can make an exception. Just as long as you don’t let others in on it.</p>