<p>I loved the p217 essay… basically just copy and pasted one of my other college essays:)</p>
<p>Wow, really? Mine turned out way different from any of my other college essays, what on earth have your other prompts been? Hahaha</p>
<p>I sorta did the same thing? I turned my Cornell engineering prompt into one about me presenting the idea at an international physics conference… haha</p>
<p>haha CanaryK, it was my common app essay (one of the many versions) written about my own topic of choice. I deleted the intro so that everything fits nicely onto one page, typed p217 on the bottom, and sent it off. Had to use another essay for the main common app though.</p>
<p>feuxfollets, isn’t it kind of sad that it’s now one o’clock in the morning three (maybe four?) days before my Cornell app is due, and I’m still just beginning my Cornell essay?</p>
<p>Oh ahah that sounds like a pretty good essay actually. </p>
<p>Calico, if it makes you feel better, it’s 3ish days until my MIT app is due and I haven’t started it yet, at all. And I still need to write my Princeton supp essay. (Oh procrastination…) And also I have only one version of my commonapp essay because I’m too lazy to write more than that :x</p>
<p>FEUX ARE YOU FOLLOWING ME? Hahahahah I just realized that you’re in like all of the threads I’ve opened for the past… idk 5 threads? Great minds post alike, I suppose :D</p>
<p>yeah, I have the princeton one to tackle too, and the chicago ones (plural)…</p>
<p>Tee-hee, mine MIGHT be unique, or just annoying. I wrote it about writting it. 
Nothing it more fresh then the present!</p>
<p>@Calico: I wrote and finished a ton of essays in the past few days. procrastination is ftw. I actually wrote my commonapp essay yesterday and used my old one for the princeton supplement. and yea I find I have better ideas to write at 12-2 o’clock at night (or is it in the morning?)
Well I’ve written everything now, just need to edit some stuff and hopefully I’ll be done with senior year by tomorrow =)</p>
<p>I still need to send a letter/essay to MIT but that’s not until February.</p>
<p>Haha Canary… but I have yet to have clefairy-drawing competitions =)</p>
<p>Ahah rmadden, that blows my mind. Sounds like a cool essay though :)</p>
<p>Done with senior year, feux?? Already? Haha, can’t start slacking yet, you have to wait for acceptances first.
You should have some Clefairy-drawing competitions, they’re pretty intense. Just don’t try having one with me because I will kick yo azz. </p>
<p>Okay sorry to shamelessly advertise again, but I’m too lazy to make an actual thread in the essays forum. Does any non-Asian have time to look at my 217 essay? For the reasons listed above; I’m not a racist pig, I swear!</p>
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Haha, me too.</p>
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What for?</p>
<p>Haha, Canary, it was not all that difficult. HOWEVER, I have never had so much trouble with tenses. I am writing this as if I am writing it it the future, so it is in the past, but it is narrative, so it should be in present even if it is in the past, but then again, it is happening now, as I write, so it is not something I am looking back on. It is not THAT complex, but needless to say, I have to reread to make sure everything has a parallel tense.</p>
<p>Am I the only one who wrote about something that happened in the past rather than the future?</p>
<p>Not even going to try to understand that haha, I don’t think I’ve ever had to think that hard about tenses either.
I was going to write about something that happened in the past, but narratives are just really not my strong suit, so I gave up. One of my friends wrote about a past experience though.</p>
<p>Yeah, most people either write about the past or the future.</p>
<p>I don’t see the big deal with this essay. I actually had fun writing it when I applied ED, because its basically bragging on hypothetical achievements you will receive. Anyways, it is truly optional, because other people who were also accepted into M&T did not even write it.</p>
<p>I think people stress out over this one because they don’t know how far they can go without being ridiculous, haha.</p>
<p>if you don’t like the prompt, don’t write it…i feel like CC is full of uptight fun haters</p>
<p>Haha hopefully Penn doesn’t care about being overly ridiculous. I went all out, imaginary, science fiction. It sounds absolutely crazy, but it’s very entertaining.</p>
<p>Aw, but I love CC’ers.
And I don’t think people hate the prompt… they’re just concerned that their essays might be too crazy for a college app. Plus, too many people are told to never miss out on an optional essay by their counselor or something, so they’ll write something even if they don’t like the prompt.</p>
<p>FACT, everyone loves science fiction. It sounds very interesting, hahah.</p>
<p>Okay I finally submitted this application, I figured I’ve nitpicked it enough. Took a considerable amount of bracing to press that button though.</p>