<p>Ok so my essay is about passion for science, and takes place at around 5 AM some night, when I'm working on my research, etc., and realize that passion is what fuels me to do this (there weren't any upcoming deadlines or anything, I just really wanted to find something out). </p>
<p>Now, I don't know how to make this fit #11! I have a picture from 5:30 (the clock is in the picture) a.m. one day when I was sleeping over my computer that my sister took, but 11a says use a picture of something that's important to you, so that doesn't work.</p>
<p>If I use a quote, do I have to actually have it in the text, or can I just put it above the essay, saying something like "Passion is good." -Albert Einstein?</p>
<p>Ooh. Albert Einstein. Great guy, if you're going to use him, get a better quotation. Passion is good? I mean, it's pragmatic, but...anyway. This is what my writing teacher told me on 11b: Use something somebody said to you, because that way it will be more personal, and thus, more authentic. Plus, the writing will come from the heart, not the mind. Stanford likes authenticity in essays.</p>
<p>Haha I was kidding about the quotation. I don't think he ever said that. I'll probably use a quotation from some philosopher's I've seen around. I'm just saying, can you have it at the top like that.</p>
<p>I have the essay already written though, and I really need a quote. People have said stuff to me regarding this, but I don't know how to incorporate it. I already have some dialogue in my essay, so I don't want it to get confused. Is it ok to just put the quote at the top?</p>
<p>I think the readers will get what your quotation is if you incorporate it strongly into your essay. If you want to emblazon the top of your essay with a quotation in bold, italics, and double underline (and shadow), whatever, that's your perogative. i don't think it makes a difference either way, but I'd talk to an adult.</p>
<p>i actually think the picture would be cooler - i mean, they say, something important to you, and the picture symbolizes something important to you (the moment you realized what all your work was for etc)</p>
<p>and plus, a picture would be less clicheish than a quote, just because i think if i saw a picture of a clock i would be more interested in reading on...</p>
<p>Ooo...do you think that a picture of a clock at 5 AM would be sufficient? What about something symbolizing my project or research that's next to it, like visible text saying (Predicted - Actual) = 0% on my laptop (that's supposed to mean that I predicted the actual value with 100% accuracy)? I feel weird having myself in the picture, since it may be misconstrued to mean that "I'm important to me."</p>
<p>So basically just a picture of the clock at 5 AM? I'm scared the adcom won't think that's pertinent, since the prompt asks for something that is "important to you." A clock isn't really important to me, science is. But science is important ENOUGH for me to work at 5 AM. That's why I would like to have some symbol of me working etc. Is it ok to basically stage photos?</p>
<p>I could take a photo of me working, showing the laptop up close and probably just a bit of my hand, and making sure the screen looks "nerdy" enough to be research, and have the clock in the background as 5 AM. How would that be?</p>
<p>Here's a quote for ya: When a friend suggested that he temper his pursuit of knowledge with a dash of common sense, Jacobi retorted, "Certainly I have sometimes endangered my health by overwork, but what of it? Only cabbages have no nerves, no worries, and what do they get out of their perfect wellbeing?"</p>
<p>haha very nice very nice, but I think I want to go with a picture, since then I wouldn't have to actually incorporate it in and disrupt the flow or anything. What do you guys say to my above proposal (Post #9, second paragraph)?</p>
<p>Well, kinda lame but you could always say time is important to you, your use it to do interesting research that ou find important. I don't know how well that goes with your essay but its a thought...</p>
<p>When I wrote the long essay, I used a picture, and I was mostly concerned with how directly it had to relate. How explicit do you have to be? In the end I guess my picture related explicitly and implicitly. It related to the theme of creativity and how I see the world, and I explicitly mentioned it in my essay as one of the pictures I took during the experience described in my essay</p>