<p>I chose the influential person in my life essay instead. I wrote about the incredible influence that colombian pop singer Juanes had on me in terms of my developing a real passion for languages and culture....it sounds kinda stupid maybe but it actually turned out to be the best college essay I wrote... I thought</p>
<p>I love Juanes!!!</p>
<p>La Camisa Negra!</p>
<p>juanes is the best. La Paga and Suenos ftw.</p>
<p>Hey did you guys stick to 300word limit? Like strictly?</p>
<p>Mine was 498. So no. lol</p>
<p>Mine was around 320.</p>
<p>The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-communism. Today it is the cloak for (anti terrorism). </p>
<p>I wrote about how the psyche of a nation depends on her government's unbridled encouragement of the freedom of expression and dissent.</p>
<p>Oh another note: while I do believe there will be instances where the adcom gets blown away by a 500 word essay, they might be annoyed if u failed to be an outstanding writer, and even wasted their time reading your extra 200 words. I would rather demonstrate economy of expression keeping to the word limit. It does matter- they aren't exactly clamouring for long "trying to be intellectually explicit" essays.</p>
<p>good thread!</p>