<p>What if instead of writing a letter to my roommate from me, I wrote a letter to the roommate from the voice of a roommate I had in the past?</p>
<p>Ex. Rather than</p>
<p>My name is John, whatever.....</p>
<p>trying...</p>
<p>To John's future roomate,
I roomed with John for 7 weeks at xxx summer program...and then go on to describe myself from my roomates point of view.</p>
<p>Is it innovative, or too risky in that it doesn't exactly respond to the prompt?</p>
<p>Its interesting but I dont know if ur rly any better off than if u had written from 1st person as far as what can be said and what couldnt.</p>
<p>i know i can write a better essay from my roommates point of view</p>
<p>(plus i can grill him on what he would want my next roommate to know)</p>
<p>its just a question of format</p>
<p>I think that's a really great idea! It definitely lends credibility to whatever you're saying, because <em>you're</em> not saying it, so you're not in danger of seeming too sappy or melodramatic.</p>