<p>In the essays, of course.</p>
<p>I'm afraid mine was kind of stodgy, but there's really nothing I can do now since I applied EA.</p>
<p>Question number four... wrote about tabula rasa, body and soul, and all those good things.</p>
<p>Next essay I write I'm going to write about how good I am at applying liquid eyeliner. Because damn...I rule at that, at least.</p>
<p>I wrote about video games and absurdity. I also wrote about my favorite building. My sentences suck. This sentence also sucks. </p>
<p>Heh.</p>
<p>I wrote about question #2--had fun with the first 3/4, breaking down all the idiosyncrasies of my speech and how they differ from my friends'...spent the last 1/4 making the obligatory generalization ;).</p>
<p>If they want to see a writer's voice, they've got both of mine--my writing voice and my actual spoken syntax. And I think I did a damned good job of representing both of them, as well as who I am.</p>
<p>I thought my essay was so cool at first...I wrote about the one inspired by a huge thing of mustard, so I'm like, "screw writing about mustard, what else is huge that people feel they need that is really unnecessary?" So I ended up writing about a contest in a state fair that was the "best heart" contest, and three people had to explain why they were the most giving, most loving, best people there. I thought it was awesome until I read something that said U of Chicago hates essays that sound like they're from a "How to Write a College Essay" book, and that's exactly what mine was.</p>
<p>So I guess I'll just have to wait and see.</p>
<p>Mine was a little on the pretentious side, which is not like me - I was just uninspired and desperate. I sent in other samples of my writing, though, and hopefully it will offset it.</p>
<p>Ah man...mine was horrible as the hell (come to think of it, that might be where i end up).</p>
<p>I toyed with Prompt 4, and came to a dead end, and realized I don't give a **** about someone else who is dead or alive, or mustard jars the size of my head, or even the whole idiosyncrasys my language, which would have been interesting since I have an English accent with American Vocabulary. </p>
<p>I wrote about art and how it inspired me to climb a tree and come in sync with myself and my past....how "How to Write a College Essay" bookish is that?!</p>
<p>My other two simply aced it. Loved them. Adored them. And then sent them.</p>
<p>Personally I thought the essays were dumb. They don't really tell you much about the applicant except a bit about how their mind works. Everyone oohs and aaahs over them because they're "different" and "quirky" but just because they're creative doesn't mean they're useful or important. They're not.</p>
<p>i did that make ur own topic option because those prompts sucked</p>
<p>ditto. goldplatinum</p>
<p>what are the prompts you made for yourselves? (if you chose option 5)</p>
<p>"It is said that what you surround yourself with are reflections of your personality: friends, clothes, bumper stickers, and the like. Tell us how you adorn that central node of personal space the bedroom. What decorates the walls, litters the floor, and stuffs the bookcase?"</p>
<p>I know. dumb.</p>
<p>that's quite interesting... :)</p>
<p>did u get in?
or are u applying RD?</p>
<p>I applied EA but I haven't heard back yet.</p>
<p>oo urs is clever, mine was pretty trite, something about how helping people changes us</p>
<h1>1---An essay on how giant mustard is a perfect symbol of Arabic culture...yeah..pretty quirky...</h1>
<p>haha....mustard, a symbol of arabic culture....more like mustard the symbol for oil...then, no wonder pres. bush is going after the mustard decorated upon his beloved hot dog--cheney.</p>
<p>I did the teleporter/teleclone machine one and talked about how man is/must be more than the sum of his atoms... got kind of philisophical, TOKish</p>
<p>I made up my own prompt that really just allowed me to write more creatively about the prompt indytucker mentioned.. which is frightening me now because I, too, wrote about being more than a summation of atoms, emotions, and memories, except wrote it in a different, non-essay format. I think there really are two ways of answering that question, and most probably answered it the same way I did. It's really really long, too.</p>