<p>Hey guys! I was wondering if someone would be willing to read over my Bowdoin supplement and tell me what they think of it. Please, be brutal and tell me if it's awful. I really need a fresh perspective on this.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if I answered the question well, it's an incredibly vague prompt:</p>
<p>In an effort to understand your interests and aspirations for college, we ask you to select one of the three topics below and provide a response of up to 250 words.</p>
<p>Bowdoin students and alumni often cite world-class faculty and opportunities for intellectual engagement, the College's commitment to the Common Good, and the special quality of life on the coast of Maine as important aspects of the Bowdoin experience.</p>
<p>Reflecting on your own interests and experiences, please comment on one of the following:</p>
<ol>
<li>Intellectual engagement</li>
<li>The Common Good</li>
<li>Connection to place</li>
</ol>
<p>I decided to write about intellectual engagement. This is still a draft, I just wrote and I'm trying to edit. I'm not sure if I'm happy with it currently. </p>
<p>While some view intellectual engagement as a simple concept, I consider to it be far more elusive, unable to be defined by a mere grouping of words. Intellectual engagement is the miraculous spark of energy at 2:30 in the morning to finish my physics lab. Intellectual engagement is the willingness to analyze a particular passage of The Odyssey countless times for the sole purpose of a deeper understanding. Intellectual engagement is the uneasy feeling that overcomes me when I consider turning in an assignment I do not consider a paragon of my work.
I aim nurture my ever-expansive sense of intellectual in engagement by attending a college that allows me pursue my fascination in two entirely separate areas- physics and literature- simultaneously. Since a young age, I have been deeply interested in two things in particular: the examination physical nature of the world through physics, and the analysis existential nature of mankind through literature. I seek an education which intertwines these two equally important facets of our world. I am interested in a curriculum that values the question itself as highly as the answer, encouraging me to be as involved in the formation of the inquisition as I am in the pursuit of the solution.</p>
<p>also, any ideas on how to end it? gosh, rereading this just made me realize how rough it is. anyway, thanks in advance. be honest!</p>