<p>For the 5 words, does a "made up word" count? E.g quienawesome or Quiensome
Would it be taken negatively?</p>
<p>The idea is to express a feeling and in one word (quiet and awesome)</p>
<p>Absolutely. They’ll appreciate your creative, innovative spirit. Humor and ingenuity are very important.</p>
<p>I would assume a made up word would count. I’m not sure I would use those examples. I didn’t catch the meaning until I read the two words.</p>
<p>Seriously? You want to describe yourself with made up words?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t. I really wouldn’t. Really, really, really, don’t do that.</p>
<p>See, if they want you to use 5 words, combining words is cheating. I could very well say</p>
<p>Awesosmartfunnintelligent, coolovingreatamazingood, that’s 9 words already and I’ve only used 2 of my slots.</p>
<p>Just use quiet and awesome. Honestly.</p>
<p>Agreed. ^
But by all means, be creative with other parts of your application!</p>
<p>don’t use the words quiet or awesome either. they’re very basic and i doubt they want simplicity. try to use more collegiate words. maybe use thesaurus.com! :)</p>
<p>I don’t think there is anything wrong with using simple words, but I doubt if you should describe yourself as “awesome.”</p>
<p>I just think it’s better to be memorable.</p>
<p>Haha precisely what @SoCalDad said.</p>
<p>I would strongly recommend against doing what the OP is considering…the English language is beautiful sometimes in its simplicity…</p>
<p>…using very simple words that are each individually meaningful when placed together will become very powerful, complementary, and compelling…</p>
<p>I think that, in this question, the overall combination of words is just as important as the choice of words themselves. The end result should be a graphics-esque mesh generation of the applicant - the best approximation. It is never possible to distill one’s essence into five words, but they should still give a clear imprint, a rough yet invaluable contextualization for one’s application. </p>
<p>I would strongly advise against any words along the lines of “awesome”, “passionate”, “inquisitive”, “intelligent”, “honest”, “kind”, “creative”, “determined”, “dedicated”, and so on. These are all empty words that should be avoided at all costs.</p>
<p>Can you give us an example of the type of word we should use, arrhenius?</p>
<p>@killbeefgoham</p>
<p>Here is an example of simple words:</p>
<p>Stopped
Killing
After
Taking
Medicine</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for the feedback. After reflection on this input, we did drop the combined word. However, I wanted my kid to follow his voice, so he picked slightly different but direct words. He wanted to communicate awkward and awesome (friendly) and some other interesting concepts, which he finally did.</p>
<p>Again thank you very much for the input. It was really very helpful.</p>