<p>What did y’all write about?</p>
<p>Well I tried to make mine pertain to the idea and purpose of a women’s college: to give a valuable education to women when only men went to school.</p>
<p>I wrote about how you shouldn’t be afraid of taking risks, and taking advanced classes - like calculus, or physics. Don’t be afraid to major in nueroscience or engineering. Try it all - even if you think it might be too “hard”.</p>
<p>Fear is nothing to be afraid of. You can do anything you put your mind to.</p>
<p>I wrote about being a really awkward child and having opportunities at Barnard that would force me to get up in front of people and get out of my comfort zone. Nothing super profound or unique but I tried to put a personal spin on it.</p>
<p>I wrote about choosing Betty Crocker as my woman. lol. I also wrote about turning down a pretty-sure thing at UPenn. I risked applying to Barnard because I had guarantees at many other very good schools, but not Barnard.</p>
<p>Oh, jeez, I’d completely forgotten about the disaster that was that essay. I wrote this blathering, rah-rah feminist rant about how wonderful all the Barnard women in my life are, and how they’ve managed to live their lives outside of the constraints of traditional female roles; I think I may have actually used the phrase “Madonna-whore complex.” What was I thinking? I have quite literally no idea- I think I’d written so many essays at that point that I was going insane. Do you think the admissions committee was totally horrified?</p>
<p>My name is Luisa and I am currently attending a community college, my plans is to transfer. My major is Journalism to pursue my goal of being a news reporter. I was thinking about applying for CSU Long Beach, or USC Annenberg. Can I get some help on deciding? Thank you much!</p>
<p>ohheyolivia: Madonna-whore complex?! haha</p>
<p>don’t worry though, yours was probably much more interesting then mine. I just talked about how Barnard offers an unafraid experience and yadiyada. hopefully it wasn’t completely redundant and boring…but yikes I think it was pretty bad! :/</p>
<p>correa5150: what does deciding between CSU Long Beach and USC Annenberg have to do with Barnard College?? You may be on the wrong forum! Anyway, good luck to you :)</p>
<p>In a nutshell, I wrote about not being afraid to dream big.</p>
<p>I was just reading a book about the Madonna-whore Complex! Haha it sounds like a really interesting response (in a good way!). I doubt they were even close to horrified.</p>
<p>I made a sort list of what I felt made me unafraid, such as taking a stereotypically slacker course and defending it against my overly-competitive schoolmates, admitting to me very Asian mother that I actually love theater, and the time I stalked illegal motorcycle taxis for an anthropology project. I ended with a very cliche “It means being afraid, but realizing that it’s worth the fear.” But, hey, I was feeling it, and I guess it worked. (:</p>
<p>PS. I am so going to wiki Madonna-whore complex. Sounds intriguing…</p>
<p>Oh man, I don’t even want to think about this essay. So many cliches…how did you all do it??</p>
<p>opensesame, I think it’s about just being as honest as you can be as well as making sure that through your writing, the college can see who you are and your unique experiences. There’s this one quote my C.S. Lewis that says it all:</p>
<p>“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”</p>
<p>So don’t worry about it. If it’s honest, no matter how cliche you feel it is, it isn’t.</p>
<p>i wrote about visual kei</p>
<p>^ that was cute. I was like “what is visual kei?”</p>
<p>makes sense now :)</p>
<p>￣▽￣ …・∀・</p>
<p>I think I know who you are on facebook…</p>
<p>wahhh tasha l~!</p>
<p>haha yup :)</p>