<p>I went back to school today, and my English teacher didn't wanna do the run of the mill "getting to know you" activities, so she decided to get to know us through our writing.</p>
<p>Tonights assignment: 500 words responding to the prompt: "What do you do?"</p>
<p>I totally don't know how to start this. Any ideas?</p>
<p>You should talk about the joys of browsing CC. And you can get some inspiration by procrastinating your prompt by browsing :D</p>
<p>^I bet you make great first impressions on teachers tmanne.</p>
<p>I’ll help you start.</p>
<p>(Crappy essay, especially intro [I don’t want to think hard, okay?])</p>
<p>There are many things I like to do in my free time. These things include browsing the internet to hair products. I also like where I live: The Land of hott guys, lipstick and lemon lime lollipops and happy shiny things of hope and wonder.</p>
<p>One major thing I like to do is browse a website called “College Confidential” in my free time. This site is amazing. There is a “word” association game that is nice to play, and people say dog all the time, although that has no association to the word above. It is fun to do when I am bored. The people on there are crazy, however. I am afraid that some of them would kill themselves if they slipped from a A+ in a class to an A and if they got a 2,390 on their say instead of a 2,400. The forum “High School Life”, is a nice one. You can take a break from the people posting chance threads, while there are only about 10 adcoms that brows this site. College Confidential is a good place to go when bored.</p>
<p>I also do school. Though I am forced to go, it will give me a change to go to college, which is nice. I can learn about adjectives, whatever those are, and I can even learn to write 500 word essays that explain what I do. </p>
<p>In addition to ‘doing’ College Confidential and School, I whole heatedly adore the taste of hair care products. Like no lie. The taste of them in my mouth is fantastic – the sour soapy taste. To bad hair doesn’t grow in the mouth. It’s a shame.</p>
<p>Also, I live in the The Land of hott guys, lipstick and lemon lime lollipops and happy shiny things of hope and wonder…</p>
<p>God, 500 words? Where am I?</p>
<p>Anyway, I say make it funny.</p>
<p>That’s a vague question. Does she mean in general? Does she specify at all? Are you supposed to write about what you do during the day?</p>
<p>hahahahaha. zap, you had way too much fun with that homework assignment :]</p>
<p>It’s 301 words by the way.</p>
<p>i’d protest to the teacher if i were you. you shouldve asked her during class to be more specific</p>
<p>What are you talking about. That was specific.</p>
<p>What else does “what do you do” ask?</p>
<p>You say I do…</p>
<p>writing
reading
cc
school
this
that</p>
<p>Etc.</p>
<p>^There may have been more details than that. Perhaps the teacher wanted something like during the day, or maybe in a certain situation. I’m not sure though, the OP will have to clarify that.</p>
<p>To the OP, plagiarize off zap.</p>
<p>Lol, thanks for the responses.</p>
<p>But that’s it. There was no more information. It was like the last 2 minutes of class, and she wrote “What do you do?” on the front board. She told us to consider it for a second, and to compose an essay of 500 words answering the question.</p>
<p>I think she’s gonna get her first impressions of us based on how we appoach this assignment.</p>
<p>Can you get any more vague?</p>
<p>I think I’m just gonna take the “I (verb). (verb). (verb). (verb)…” approach.</p>
<p>Write a lame literal essay about all the involuntary bodily functions that occur.</p>
<p>Like “I RESPIRE I DIGEST I FILTER USING MY NEPHRONS”.</p>
<p>Or you can take the “unique college essay” approach and write exclusively about one thing you enjoy doing, and how it ties into your life.</p>
<p>Even though it still wouldn’t be that unique.</p>
<p>you should compose an essay on what do you so when you don’t understand an essay prompt.
what do you do if you are stranded in the middle of the forest
what do you do if you were switched at birth and so on…
make it funny maybe she’ll get the joke.</p>
<p>500 words is about a page and a half - I know this because most college essays are 500 words.</p>
<p>Just fluff it up - teachers think they are making you think more by making you write more, but really all they do is make you run around in circles to fill up the pages. >_< I once had a thoroughly researched paper that hit the maximum amount of pages with at least a page of sources filled. I got an 84…</p>
<p>Then I had a fluffed up paper that I had very little research… and I got an 98 - from the exact same teacher. <em>sigh</em> high school…</p>
<p>“What do I do? Well, perhaps the better answer is what do I not do! On any given day, I will take (some#) or breaths! I will follow these breaks with (some#) eye blinks. As this miracle is happening, my stomach will digest! etc etc”</p>
<p>Wow, you’re back in school already and the teacher has given you a vague essay. I feel for you man!</p>
<p>make a list of weird things you’ve done and make it into an conversational essay</p>
<p>Write about what you do when you’re given a super vague essay topic on the first day of school. Make it comical.</p>