<p>basically… should i continue with the theme or choose another topic to write about?</p>
<p>bump anyone?</p>
<p>Depends. Remember that the whole point of this exercise is to let the admissions office get a feel for what kind of person you are. If writing two nature essays will give them an incomplete picture (i.e. leave some important facet of you out) and writing on a different topic will allow you to explore/show that side, then don’t do nature twice. If you can give a complete picture with two nature essays, then two nature essays is fine.</p>
<p>What you should not do if you write twice on nature is recycle the same essay for both. Then you’d just be wasting their time. If you write on nature twice, focus each essay in a different way. For example, you might do one academic, like “Here’s how [my favorite subjects] relate to nature”, where [my favorite subjects] = biology, ecology, the mathematics of complex systems, literature, whatever. And you might also do one personal essay, like a story about a camping/hiking trip where you learned to be more independent. What you shouldn’t do is have two essays, one of which is “I like nature, that’s why I like biology” and the other of which is “I like nature, that’s why I also like ecology”. Doubly so if doing that causes you to neglect the fact that you also consider yourself an artist/athlete/musician/whatever.</p>