Is it good to be funny in your essays?

<p>Or will the readers think you're not taking things seriously?</p>

<p>Be funny as long as it doesn’t take away from your point.</p>

<p>I am, is it bad? doubt that. First make them laugh, then make them think.</p>

<p>=] my friend is a Quest Scholar at UChicago and for the “one thing you would change about your community”, he wrote about getting the boys in his single-sex school to look after their bathroom.</p>

<p>It can only help lol :D</p>