<p>Dean J, </p>
<p>I'm struggling a bit with finding an appropriate topic to write about for my essay for the College of Arts and Sciences. Please help!</p>
<p>College of Arts and Sciences: What work of art, music, science, mathematics, or literature has surprised, unsettled, or challenged you, and in what way?</p>
<p>The most natural choice is probably going to fall along the lines of your field of interest. If you’re planning on studying English, did you read a book in one of your classes that you kept thinking about after you finished, one that changed the way you look at part of life? If you’re a math person, what theorem blew your mind when you learned about it? Think through the things you’ve studied in your field of interest. Which one really made you think?</p>
<p>I’ve been thinking along those lines already actually, so thank you. I’m leaning to the medical field or biology, but I can’t think of something to write about without simply summarizing a news article or video. Could you help me with scientific things to write about possibly?</p>
<p>I personally think the topic should be authentic. I don’t give suggestions as a result.</p>
<p>There has to be something that influenced you in some way, though.</p>
<p>Admissions is looking for an insight into what you think is exciting or challenging, so what to write about is really a choice YOU have to make.</p>
<p>If I had written this essay, I might have written about Euler’s Identity in math (maybe writing a bit about how it was difficult to understand the logic behind it, and then writing about why its implications are so cool for higher math). You should follow your interest to the biological side of science, but there are a lot of concepts and theories there to choose from. Of course, the phrase the question uses is “work of science”, so it might be that Admissions is looking for your reaction to a specific bit of research, but I think its more likely that they’re interested in what you think is interesting, so you can really just make the question yours.</p>
<p>Thank you both for the help!</p>