<p>So, I'll be writing 2 essays for UT Austin, the required essay
- prompt C: Considering your lifetime goals, discuss how your current and future academic and extra-curricular activities might help you achieve your goals.</p>
<p>and I'll be choosing prompt A :
Describe a setting in which you have collaborated or interacted with people whose experiences and/or beliefs differ from yours. Address your initial feelings and how those feelings were or were not changed by this experience.</p>
<p>Prompt A doesn't pose much of a problem but for prompt C, even if I have a faint idea of what I want to write, it seems like there is a risk to 'laundry list'. I've read some essays for this prompt and that's exactly what I see: people simply list one accomplishment after another. I'm just wondering if the prompt is literally asking for that or if it's okay to go about it in a different way without straying too much from the answering the question. For example: Writing it in a way that I'm already in the future, either working or attending X university and I'm just looking back at what I've that had led me to where I am. Thus, 'current' becomes the past and 'future' becomes the present. But since the essay is asking for a discussion, would something more articulate and less story-like be a better option?</p>