This Brown Essay is Killing me

Applying to College
1

<p>Since I'm a computer science major I have to write an extra three essays, one of which is:</p>

<p>What concept in your anticipated major were you most proud of mastering? (500 words!)</p>

<p>Now I have no idea where to go with this. I tried writing about my proficiency with web design but I ended up writing the majority of the essay on a computer-oriented service club I started which really isn't computer science related. I'm finding it really hard to spend a whole page talking about web design. Any ideas!?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

2

<p>btw, should I get technical with this essay? I don't want to scare away my admission officer.</p>

3

<p>Be creative about it... approach it from another angle. Find something completely unrelated and weave that into computer science. Tell them 2 things about you at once. I'd try not to get too technical either.</p>

<p>That's what I did for all of my essays.</p>

4

<p>I know how you feel! I have 4 applications left and 3 of them are simply.. "Why Engineering?" While Brown... has to ask, why engineering, what led to your interest in engineering, and why the concentration.</p>

<p>Ive been staring at the blinking cursor for almost 5 hours not know what to write that isn't overtly boring.</p>

5

<p>haha.. that's why I'm not applying for comp sci major :p</p>

<p>I feel sorry for ppl applying to PLME... they have to write like 6essays or something...</p>

6

<p>umm... 6 essays for PLME? no... only 2 extra essays for plme. unless i missed something...</p>

7

<p>
[quote]
What concept in your anticipated major were you most proud of mastering? (500 words!)

[/quote]
</p>

<p>Where on the Brown application does it say that that essay has to be 500 words? The paper app just has a two-part question with a page's worth of lines for a handwritten essay, and it does not specify a minimum or maximim amount of words to be used.</p>