<p>The short answer section in the (writing section)</p>
<p>Please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work experiences in the space below (1000 character maximum). </p>
<p>Is it better to write the response as a story (like you would the college essay, make it interesting) or just get straight to the point and explain how I learned alot of things... I'm going to write about my job that I just got a month ago (mcdonalds) and how I learned many new things and how to value money more becuase the work is hard...?</p>
<p>Whichever way you feel best represents you must be the way you follow. FYI, I have followed a conversational style.
Presenting it as a story is okay too but it would be very difficult to do so in only 1000 characters because commonapp will truncate the characters that exceed 1000.</p>
<p>I am going to write straight forward formal way, without story or dialogue. I feel that better because its ONLY 1000 chars, to the point, short description is what they want. I guess. Personnal Opinion, though.</p>
<p>So I should just write like I leraned “this that blah blah” or tell my story “i waited anxiously for that life cahnging phone call… blah blah” thanks</p>