<p>Hey everyone,</p>
<p>I know you guys are all stuck on the supplement. I am too, not gonna lie. I know the main word in the essay directions is “vitality”, what are y’all writing about to convey your vitality and how do express how you plan to make Bates more vital? Vitality is such a crappy keyword lol. Anyone who had to answer this question and already goes to Bates could you please throw us a bone here? It’s not like we’re our competition :). Thanks for the help.</p>
<p>bump 10char</p>
<p>Because vitality means the state of being strong and active, I think I’m going to write about activities I do that I will still be able to do at Bates and contribute to the activities on campus and such.
It’s such a broad topic though, I’ve found this really hard. I’ve been brainstorming forever. This is probably the worst supplement I’ve had to write.</p>
<p>I’m writing about what I can contribute to the Bates community in order to make it a stronger, more well-rounded community</p>
<p>I wrote about curiosity.</p>
<p>apart from the essay topic being a tough one, the length makes it even more difficult. for me its not the worst, only one of the worst! Imagine being asked to suggest a new name for a school’s mascot and you’re an international student from a West African country.</p>
<p>I know, I applied to Grinnell too… But there are worse - UPenn and Williams.</p>
<p>Idk the mascot one was the easiest for me as I got the feel of the school fairly well and the prompt kind of triggered the creative side of me. It’s vague prompt like this that is giving me headaches. Anyway how many words do you suggest for this?</p>
<p>It’s not so easy if you live on the other side of the world, having no chance to visit the campus and if you have to rely completely on the internet to get any information about the school.</p>