<p>^^LOL, title is self explanatory. But essays are so difficult, and fun, and overall stressing..How to present your "whole" self in a few hundred words?</p>
<p>How much has everyone written so far?</p>
<p>It's so weird! Only a month left! :O</p>
<p>I’ve barely started at all, dealing with the SSATs and recs and everything else in the app process. My plan is “Essay Boot Camp during the two weeks of holidays.” </p>
<p>Oh, it’s going to be fun…</p>
<p>Workin on finishing Andover tonight… Have yet to start hotchkiss, sps, Taft, choate, and lawrenceville… :0</p>
<p>I have finished many short answers, a couple of formal essays, yet I still have more to go! It is definitely strenuous…and I have so much editing to do. Hopefully my essays will be complete and submitted by the end of December. Winter break should probably give me ample time to write…</p>
<p>I’m so behind. I have barely started. I just stare at the questions and wonder how to respond. I think I’m going to have to do an Essay Boot Camp over winter break as well.</p>
<p>I have finished all of my essays, and am now in the process of editing them. I have gotten my parents to read over them and give feedback, but I know that they need to be primarily my own work. I have come to realize that it is helpful to reread them and edit them everyday, because everything seems different after you have slept on it. I save all of my different drafts, and I occasionally read them start to finish, and it’s crazy how much my essays have changed for the better. All I need to do know is finish editing them and gather other personal things to send. I’m going to record myself singing a song and performing a dance (see username) and send that in with my application. I can’t believe that after ALL of this stressing, preparing, agonizing, and excitement, I’m SO close to getting the applications in. I need to make myself busy as soon as I press the “enter” button (they’re mostly online.)</p>
<p>I have like two short answers and one essay done…but I think I have ideas for MOST of them…</p>
<p>what schools are you applying 2? Also, what grade? For anyone to answer</p>
<p>four schools, prefer not to answer which grade.</p>
<p>9-ish essyas. four left? lol.</p>
<p>Ballerina22, you are annoyingly ahead! Good job!</p>
<p>…I feel like an overacheiver. I submitted my entire application yesterday. :p</p>
<p>Lol, I definitely need essay boot camp. I have about four to go.</p>
<p>Finished Andover tonight… Still have Choate, Hotchkiss, LVille, SPS, and Taft… ugh!</p>
<p>Good look, preppossibly. We’re roooooooting for you!!! You’re applying to a lot of schools, wowo.</p>
<p>thanks!!! I know… Im starting to freak</p>
<p>Haven’t started. This should be good. But I’ve been working on my recs so I haven’t been completely unproductive and I started kind of late in the process.</p>
<p>finished groton’s essay and halfway through deerfield’s still have like 7 more to go… anyone finished an ad for yourself??? ( if your applying to thacher)</p>
<p>Have you visited thacher? If you have can you tell me what it’s like? I’ve been debating whether to apply and I can’t visit. Do you think someone who likes the outdoors but doesn’t want to do a lot of activities like rockclimbing and expeditions would fit in there?</p>
<p>no I havent but my friend has. she said its great except some parts of the campuses smells like horse… feces</p>
<p>I am pretty sure you will fit in there… probably someone else in the school that doesnt like rock climbing and expeditions( im ok with camping but not with rock climbing.</p>