<p>Finished with my essays (ridiculously amazing considering I’m the worst procrastinator when it comes to school and work in general); just felt like writing some essays yesterday and today. Well actually, done a day before the deadline, but still, I usually get things done 10 minutes before the deadline. </p>
<p>Application submitted. I’m satisfied with my topics (may not be the best or unique, but w/e) and writing (no Shakespeare, once again, but good enough). It’s the best I could’ve done (I think).</p>
You’re probably not the only one who’s wondering about this–I didn’t know last year at this time either! It’s kind of hard to offer a simple definition of one, since you can interpret the term in a lot of ways. But basically, choose a text (book, short story, poem, etc.) and analyze it. This could mean that you pick one theme from the book and support/debunk it (hopefully with examples), or you could pick a lot of smaller components of the book and analyze them (again, offering your opinion and evidence). Which route you take really depends on two things: the kind of text and your opinions on it. Does that make sense?</p>
<p>PHEW- finally submitted everything…though I did leave the rank/class size blank because I couldn’t get the information- do you think it’s that important??</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone who’s been very helpful!! Hope to hear good things from all of you in March!! =]</p>
<p>A couple of quick questions, and I apologize if theyve been asked and answered already, I just found this thread yesterday and its quite long…</p>
<p>@mulberrypie I didn’t cite anything either, and don’t really see how you can seeing as the the essays must be cut and pasted into the boxes of the online app, so I don’t see how any citation is feasible.</p>
<p>And should our essays have titles?</p>
<p>By the way, seeing as TASP is extremely competitive, I’m pretty much using this as a way to practice writing college app essays…and these topics are good enough that I may be able to reuse a couple of these essays.</p>
<p>ok thank you.
I just emailed them, but I doubt they’ll reply on Sunday. I just finished a draft my of literary analysis…that was my hardest essay I believe. my other essays are done though (thankfully). </p>
<p>I actually really like my 2nd essay (surprisingly), but I learned alot about my parents’ views after writing it (they disagree COMPLETELY with me). My conflict essay is kind of eh though…</p>
<p>Well how can you support an idea from a book using only reasoning from the book? It’s like proving an argument correct by stating opinions as your evidence.</p>
<p>jhwu — That’s Impossible… pacific time - 8 hrs = gmt-16 hrs, which doesn’t exist.so its gmt + 8 hrs. or pacific +16 hrs. so 11:59 monday pacific would be 3:59 pm. TUESDAY.</p>
<p>Dunbar, you’ve expressed my views better than I could express them myself. I wasn’t sure how much we were supposed to stray from the book in our critical analysis, and so I played it pretty conservatively, and found it kinda frustrating. Alas.</p>
This question is different from the one you asked earlier. You can use personal reasoning/“real world” examples to support/debunk the ideas you’re discussing.</p>