I’ve been working on the essays since they dropped on the blogs in late July. I’ve spent almost an hour every day since then trying to write them, but I have made no progress at all.
I don’t want to spend way to much time on the essays unless this is typical because I’m tired.
The big problem is I just don’t have any ideas for the 250 word essays, so if you have some advice, let me know.
@7YearsPerHour best advice I can give is, don’t sweat it too much. Yes, the essays are important, but it is not the same as some final paper in your last CI-M where everything has to be perfect (not really).
I don’t know/remember the topics, but 250 words isn’t much, so answer the prompts concisely, and answer only the prompts.
Plenty of great advice on the MIT website including this:
http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/show_dont_tell_the_college_ess
Pat yourself on the back @7YearsPerHour . MIT is my #1 choice and I haven’t even started on the essays lol…
It’s more of a curse than you might guess. It’s not even that I don’t have essays, is just that they aren’t making the cut. I have like 7000 words worth of drafts but I can’t shape any of them into something really good.
RIP the dream
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