<p>So I finished my essay today and I was wondering if anyone could take a look and tell me what they think. It's a tad obscure, but it's what I thought of.</p>
<p>Anyone up for a read?</p>
<p>Yeah, I’ll definitely read it. I’m still working on my essay. Still trying to think of a good idea. I would enjoy to see someone else’s take on the questions.</p>
<p>messege it to me</p>
<p>chi '12 here. ill read</p>
<p>lindshutton55, I would suggest that you might want to circulate your essay via PM (private message) rather than posting it on this board directly. This has nothing to do with your essay, per se, but in the interests of privacy it would be better no to be so public with it.</p>
<p>+1 </p>
<p>Bad idea posting your essay or even PM’ing can be tricky. Aren’t you afraid someone might steal your essay/part of your essay? This would not be a difficult thing to do. </p>
<p>Keep your essay to yourself & have your school professors and/or counselor read it.</p>
<p>noooo. delete it. delete it. delete it. mods delete the essay for the op’s good.</p>
<p>i don’t know how to delete it now.</p>
<p>Find a mod to delete it for you.</p>
<p>how do i find a mod?</p>
<p>i reported the post, so it should be sent to all the mods. hopefully it will be taken down shortly.</p>
<p>I wrote on this topic, but you wouldn’t be able to tell by the essays themselves, lol. I’ll PM you with a couple of my thoughts, though i don’t have time to go into a whole lot of detail.</p>
<p>I’m sure I probably look like a complete idiot because of this, but I’m really not, lol. Just new. Oh, thanks for the tips by the way. I’m sure I’ll recall them in the future as well.</p>
<p>It’s just wise to be careful about who you share your essay with-- but I wouldn’t worry about being an “idiot.” People do idiotic things over the internet all the time, particularly when it comes to facebook accounts. Just try to remember that the internet isn’t an 100% friendly place, and it would be terrible if somebody decided to copy and paste your work and pass it off as their own!</p>
<p>Another good reason not to post your essay online is that if someone who you’ve asked to read your essay IRL finds it here, your anonymity here (such as it is) is gone!</p>
<p>It’s gone now :-)</p>
<p>All right, that’s a relief. I also am having a difficult time deciding between U of Chicago or Northwestern. I know there are several threads about this, but specifically: Are the people at UChicago more down-to-earth or are they stuck up. The only feedback I’m getting about NU is that they are all trust fund babies and extremely pompous.</p>
<p>“The only feedback I’m getting about NU is that they are all trust fund babies and extremely pompous.”</p>
<p>I would say that the likliness of this being true is about the same as the liklihood of everybody at UChi being a complete book-worm that doesn’t know what a real socail life is.
are chicago students typically more nerdy? sure. so i would say that, yes, NWern students probably tend to be more well off, but that it doesn’t define the student body (though i may be very wrong).</p>
<p>oh, and don’t feel stupid for not knowing how to delete your essay. you’re right, you’re just new. below every post on the right is a blue link that says “Report Problem Post” and through it you can send a message to all of the mods.</p>
<p>If you realize within the first 15 minutes or so that you want to delete a post, hit edit and it will give you the option to delete. Have done this myself on occasion. If your post says “Report Problem Post/Edit/Reply” then there is still time for you to go into edit and delete.</p>
<p>Chicago students can be quite wealthy. Half of students are on financial aid, half are NOT… when you realize that half of the students here can comfortably pay 50 grand a year, you can do the math and also conclude that there are probably a lot of “trust fund babies” here too.</p>
<p>However, it’s against campus culture to display this wealth… so you would have no idea who is proverbially rollin’ in the dough and who is hard up for cash. I happen to be a “trust fund baby” even though I don’t particularly look like one… my cell phone, ipod, and wardrobe cost far less than some of my friends’ who are on financial aid. At the same time, though, I don’t have a job and my friends must wonder how I get to see so many concerts and go out to dinner so often.</p>
<p>I mentioned in another thread that as a wealthy person, I’ve experienced a little bit of resentment coming from friends and peers directed at “rich people,” so if anything, I’m even more aware of acting tastefully.</p>
<p>There are plenty of no FA folks who are not wealthy and are just making too much to receive FA. Thus, one will find a mix, and like unalove said, it is hard to tell the difference. In S1’s first year, his group of friends decided that when going out as a group they would limit what each spent to the most the least affluent member could spend. That way no one felt slighted, or spent more than one should.</p>