<p>did anyone write poems as the long essay? </p>
<p>if so, what was it about and how did you structure it? </p>
<p>anyone willing to share?</p>
<p>im not sure about poems but there was one kid last year who wrote a play starring him and the two voices in his head.... thus i believe a poem would be accepted quite warmly</p>
<p>Yeah, I wrote an epic structured like that of Beowulf and did it orally for my long essay. j/k, actually I respect those of you who have the guts to write a poem for college apps, I know I have no creativity there.</p>
<p>One of my friends is thinking about submitting a poem...
But that's because he's a procrastinator, hasn't started on Chicago and needs to start and finish Penn TONIGHT...
The poem was written last year. Pretty good, I hear. Brilliant guy. Likes to party the night before most apps are due.
Ex-boyfriend? I'm allowed to bash.</p>
<p>I'm curious about people and poetry, too.</p>
<p>lmao, is this really the place to post angry posts about exes? I do believe you have some issues to work out in that department.</p>
<p>Lol, issues? Maybe. But I did say he is "one of my friends", so...(wow, I really must be bored, I swear I almost never talk about boys, much less online on a college forum)
You know, it's my fault that he's applying to almost all of the same colleges that I am. After all my campus visits, I talked about how wonderful the schools were so much that he decided to apply himself. Goodness, I do a wonderful job of creating more competition for myself...maybe they'll accept more from Alabama and my school this year.</p>
<p>sorry, being facetious, I am frankly amused my relationship problems (as not being in one at the moment) and would be quite happy to read baout your rantings (I doubt others would like it). But I doubt that colleges will take more from one particular school other than for academic reasons. Wow, these posts are all going off topic.</p>
<p>um, relationship problems are fine with me, but more to the topic...</p>
<p>poems? anyone?</p>
<p>so guys, if you aren't going to say anything...</p>
<p>anyone wanna read my poem? I warn you it is bad and amateurish, but just tell me what you think of what I have so far...</p>
<p>Sure, I'm curious.</p>
<p>christine are you really from alabama?</p>
<p>I want to read it!! PM me...but don't be mad if I don't comment- I'm supposed to be working on my gov. hw. right now.</p>
<p>Yup, I'm from Alabama.</p>
<p>I'll read it - if it is even half-funny, half-original and half-sincere they'll like the guts.</p>
<p>I wrote a poem for prompt one. I submitted tonight. I used the poem for my nine other applications as well. </p>
<p>If anyone is interested, I'll PM it.</p>
<p>I wrote a poem and then transitioned into an essay which talked about the sport of Ninjaball. It was for the Mind that does not stick prompt. I got deferred, so it couldn't have been amazing, but it couldn't have been bad either.</p>
<p>I wrote a poem for the Langston Hughes essay prompt. It was a darn good poem too . The question was essentially "Who am I?" I find that it is often easier and a lot more interesting to answer such a fundamental question in poem form. So I wrote a poem in which I tried to encapsulate who I am and what I feel passionately about. I modled it slightly on the Hughes poem, and it reads like a list of the things that make up me. I got in so someone must have liked it.</p>
<p>Scrapiron-- What I did sounds pretty similar. I kind of talked about myself in abstract, about my family. Congrats on getting in, you give me hope! It's neat that a lot of people took the poem approach, it makes me feel like I would fit at Chicago.</p>
<p>Plus I love the world encapsulate.</p>