<p>I'm doing the live the question prompt</p>
<p>so with the "live the question" prompt, there are really no rules for the content of the essay, right? The message i got from the prompt was pretty much just write an essay that somehow relates to this quote. Is that a safe assertion?</p>
<p>Thats what I did.</p>
<p>"thats what i did"</p>
<p>is that refering to my question?</p>
<p>Yes it is.</p>
<p>What i've gotten from reading the school website along with many posts from current and former students, they want to see how you interpret their prompt and run with it. I think it's a great idea, because just reading some of the ideas you guys are coming up with, i'm wanting to read your essays (and not because i want to see how i could write mine, but just because they sound interesting). I'll use Earmadith's (sp) idea for an example. As soon as I read what he thought about writing about, I wanted to ask for the final draft. It sounds like an enteraining essay. I think the adcoms want to be entertained, as well as get to know you. so, if you can do that with your essay, i think you're set (and I sure hope I did this with my own essay).</p>
<p>question: I did the last essay prompt and wrote a funny made up story about my birth and how I wanted to try and get back at the people that took me from my "home"...anyway...do we actaully have to write a prompt for ouselves to submit to UofC or do they just want to see what is written.</p>
<p>Wow, Orual, that prompt is so unique and imaginative that if it was one of the essay questions this year, I would have totally written about that one.</p>
<p>I'm writing a fictional short story about essay prompt 3. I tried to go for the metaphor angle, hopefully they won't be too harsh on stories.</p>
<p>"Wow, Orual, that prompt is so unique and imaginative that if it was one of the essay questions this year, I would have totally written about that one."</p>
<p>I think that it's because we have a much easier time writing about our flaws (or at least many of us do). lol</p>
<p>another question. is everybody writing the optional essay about the favorite media? i know it says its optional... but i mean, optional is always good right?
i am jus little worried if i should send my optional essay or not because i am a very bad "book report writer" and i feel that it may give me some down points.</p>
<p>i'd say that if you think that it will help send it, if not, don't send it.</p>
<p>Well I've written one essay in response to the physics smashing question, question number 4. Not sure how much I like it, I know I'll be doing some revising, and then may give one or two of the other topics I shot. Perhaps the powers of 10 one. Who knows.</p>
<p>I'm doing #2. I focus on me, which isn't very original, but the way I do it is. (Not telling- it's far too genius!)</p>
<p>For the favorites essay, it says you can add a category of your own, so I added.....my favorite place.</p>
<p>I did #1...honestly the idea came out of nowhere, when I was sleeping on the couch at 2 am in the morning...</p>
<p>so LOL, I hope it cuts it.</p>
<p>I'm doing the zoom in... zoom out one, but I'm adapting it a little. So it's a bit like my own prompt, but stealing quite heavily from one of the suggested ones. It's a very strange essay though, I'm a bit worried about it.</p>
<p>"I did #1...honestly the idea came out of nowhere, when I was sleeping on the couch at 2 am in the morning...</p>
<p>so LOL, I hope it cuts it."</p>
<p>same here, i think my idea may be a little to rediculous</p>
<p>My D did the road essay; she wrote about the main street in our home town. This one is personal primarily in showing her reflections on her community, rather than her reflections on her.</p>
<p>Since she is a dancer, she did the optional essay on her two favorite dancers in the American Ballet Theater. This one also has more explicitly personal reflection. It was also a lot easier to write.</p>