<p>mine took place in the future. i said i married a white woman against my family's will.</p>
<p>^LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. nice.</p>
<p>Hahaahh. I did mine. I actually wrote a 152 page bio on my life and then took page 123.
It was cool. The truly has a a little chill to it. Runs down my spine.</p>
<p>I think they meant SO FAR IN YOUR LIFE.
So I am not sure about the futuristic essays. Am I alone?</p>
<p>I think they meant SO FAR IN YOUR LIFE.
So I am not sure about the futuristic essays. Am I alone?</p>
<p>it was a pretty open-ended question. IMO, it really doesn't matter whether it's a "now" thing or a "future" thing.</p>
<p>^^ vouch - either woulda have been appropriate in my mind</p>
<p>I agree with Ace, I loved my 217. Haha, I even named my future wife (Ilyana, if you wanted to know).</p>
<p>My 217 is by far my favorite essay; after writing it, I even ended up changing it a little it for Columbia and a few other schools.</p>
<p>people have been successful doing it with both their life up to the present and in the future. It doesnt really matter.</p>
<p>oh. cool. I was just thinking.
Maybe a so-far would be better for me</p>
<p>I really don't think it matters if it's a solid essay, but I've read somewhere that AOs have said that the question is asking for students to look into the future, and I can see how that makes more sense.</p>
<p>I think it's more casual. Mine was a fully formatted book page, with the name of my book on the top and page 217 in the upper right and everything. I broke the middle with a chapter 45 too...lol. Anyways, it was about me basking in the glory of being part of the NASA team that found life on Europa before everything went wrong. Left it on a cliffhanger.</p>
<p>Yeah...</p>
<p>Echo... that's less than five pages a chapter! :-)</p>
<p>Haha yeah...I realized that after I submitted it. I guess it's one of those books with really short chapters...</p>
<p>I was thinking of making it all book-y, but I decided that would detract from the dramatic sweepingness (for lack of a better description haha) of the whole thing.
Mine was definitely not casual... I hope they don't mind a heavy piece.</p>
<p>lol can i read peoples? anyone wanna swap with me? ^^ same, mine is a little more dramatic</p>
<p>yeah, I liked mine so much that I tweaked it a bit and sent it to H and Y also.</p>
<p>^ I was afraid of doing that. I thought that that might make Harvard and Yale think I wasn't serious about their respective applications. They will recognize a UPenn used essay easily, I think...it's kinda unique.</p>
<p>LOL @ ChandlerBing about naming your wife!!!</p>
<p>I did it, too.....I had a lot of fun writing about the future that i have totally planned out =D</p>