<p>I wrote my essays about my life and some difficulties I encountered that changed my life. However I couldn't truly also express how much I love science and engineering! I feel like if there was an essay for science like the on in Caltech, I could really show the MIT people how much I really do want to pursue it.</p>
<p>Except their prompts do not make that very easy.</p>
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<li>Tell us an instance of your creativity </li>
<li>Tell us about your background and how that affected who you are</li>
<li>Tell us about a challenge you overcame.</li>
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<p>All three are not very easy to express my love for science. At not directly. Should I also send in an additional essay?</p>
<p>Well, no. But why do you want to mention it in three different areas that are evidently intended to capture a larger glimpse of your personality?</p>
<p>I mentioned math and science in the first two essays. I spent the creativity essay, well, talking about something I made, and when I do the background one I’m only going to touch on it briefly.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that in previous years there has been one main essay (of greater word count), but this there is no real main essay, just an assortment of smaller ones?</p>
<p>Any reason for the change? I kinda agree with Djokovic, 250 is relatively short, in my opinion.</p>
<p>Respectfully. Year prior the essay was 500 words on one of two topics that you get to choose. This year they split up the ‘main’ essay into two small 250 ones on BOTH topics.</p>
<p>That is why I feel lliek I am not expressing myself enough :/</p>
<p>@Djokovic:
You say you can’t “truly express how much I love science and engineering!” Tell us about your background, how it came about that you developed into someone who loves science and engineering. What kinds of experiences helped this passion to develop? </p>
<p>Answering these questions can lead to an essay that answers the #2 prompt: Tell us about your background and how that affected who you are.</p>