<p>omg! My aunt lived in Campbellsville!! :O</p>
<p>and she said the word “Maine” in the essay! :OOO</p>
<p>I thought where she was going with the essay was to put her initially negative impressions of Kentucky down and then talk about how she realized some other beautiful aspect of Kentucky, etc., that changed her opinion and made her appreciate the slowness. I just skimmed through it, so if she did that maybe it would be better than what it seemed to me.</p>
<p>…that essay sucked, I could have wrote that in 4 minutes.</p>
<p>I did not read past the second page or look at the essay, but I agree with</p>
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<p>That hurt me junior year, between getting more and more into theater and still trying to be in a sport and do well in classes. I had just left my job and it was all still too much to do, especially since I’m the kind of person who really has to put my all into something and I couldn’t do a sport and still be a dedicated theater member. I choose theater because I have more fun there and everything sorta evened out after. But that was me trying to do everything because I like to do everything, no one made me and I wasn’t thinking of school and wasn’t even sure what colleges or major yet. I think I just don’t figure my limits out until I’m going too fast, but I figured it all out and got over it, maybe she should have quit some things? Done stuff to make herself happy?</p>
<p>Her mindset is valid, one CC-facet that I’m not really sure whether it is ironic or not is the casual mention that in order to get into Harvard one has to “cure cancer.” The expectation of so many people to do everything for colleges annoys the living hell out of me because quite frankly I just did what I wanted to do and when it came time do write my apps I put down what I did, which is in my view the most honest/fair way go about the appliacation process.</p>
<p>However I completely lost her in her essay which is to put it lightly just plain BAD. It is poorly written, and has the simplistic line of a casual 20 minute SAT essay…</p>
<p>That essay was sooo…slow.</p>
<p>i also think she seems a little full of herself. her description of kentucky is definetely like my small town…but those attributes don’t fit the bigger cities like lexington or louisville at all. it just seemed like she was trying to get pity for living in this craphole, but tried to pretend she missed it later on. she probably loves living in massachussetts but didn’t have anything else to write about…or a lot of time, by the way it’s written.</p>
<p>Only amateurs experience stress.</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree…the amount of pressure we face today is crazy. I just wish I was a little kid when I used to play Pokemon and Spyro on the PS1. Actually during those times I used to PLAY OUTSIDE with my friends.</p>
<p>Now we just sit home and stress.</p>
<p>The first sentence of her essay: extremely cliche. Her ending paragraph–another cliche writing style. I don’t like her essay.</p>
<p>You can say that your challenges are worst than someone else’s. Everyone has their own problems. If people want to complain, I can say everyone in America has it easy compared to the kids in third world countries.</p>
<p>^^can’t instead of can</p>
<p>If you stress yourself, that’s your call. Why should I feel sorry for you?</p>
<p>i hope i don’t end up like her…</p>
<p>Her essay was kinda off… I can’t pinpoint it but it doesn’t have the right “tone”.</p>