<p>It’s definitely an interesting prompt, to say the least! There’s plenty of room for creativity, but might be kind of hard as you don’t want to do something too generic and cliche that would put the reader to sleep!</p>
<p>To be honest, if I had to write that prompt, I wouldn’t even know where to begin LOL.</p>
<p>I’m a student, and I think I’m a bit jaded when it comes to diffusing between cliche and novel ideas, and I like this.</p>
<p>I frankly don’t find the island question that bad to begin with.</p>
<p>I love the prompt. </p>
<p>As for the personal item, any cool frood knows to take a towel.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why, if the spacecraft is outfitted with all of humankind’s accumulated literary output, you would need to take a non-religious book? Surely whatever you wanted to read you would read it through the spacecraft’s computers. Also, if I were going on a long journey and I needed entertainment I would bring a book (several books) that I haven’t already read, so the book question makes little sense.</p>
<p>Also, the other questions are kind of obscure. Will I have access to electricity on the spaceship? the Internet? There would be little point in bringing my computer or iPod if I couldn’t charge either, or if I didn’t have the Internet.</p>
<p>I’m a graduate student and I think the prompt is kind of dumb. I’d much prefer a “why do you want to go to Iowa State?” type question because a really good student will have performed research on the school, come up with concrete examples of things he wants to do and why he wants to do them. Professors he wants to study under, classes he wants to take, resources he wants to use. Possibly I’m biased because that’s akin to a graduate statement of purpose, which I found much easier to write than my undergrad “Talk about a book that had a major impact on your life.” I kind of turned that into an essay on why my undergraduate alma mater was perfect for me, now that I think about it.</p>
<p>juillet: Actually, I think the fact that you <em>have</em> all the knowledge in the world is what makes it more interesting.</p>
<p>I personally would bring the ship manual, so I can fix the system if it ever crashes. Otherwise, I’ll have access to all the books anyways.</p>
<p>C’mon…this is for an Honors program. Get your creative juices flowing! Enjoy it! If you’re good enough to be admitted to their Honors program, this should not be all that difficult, given that it’s just a 21st century twist on the “stranded on a deserted island” essay. YOU CAN DO IT!!! :)</p>
<p>Oh, but can you post your essay after you submit it please?</p>
<p>^ probably not. I might</p>
<p>This topic is ridiculously easy:
Book: The World’s Largest Book
[World’s</a> largest book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World’s_largest_book]World’s”>Tripiṭaka tablets at Kuthodaw Pagoda - Wikipedia)
Technology: unlimited supply of paper and pencils
Personal Item: A 16-year old mail-ordered bride from Japan, preferably a geisha from an okiya. :)</p>
My father said the same that it is easy but I am finding it difficult.
Suggest a book please
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