<p>My essay was the he'lade prompt, but I wrote about an actual camp I used to go to, rather than some creative abstraction like I'm sure many did. But I ended it with a super-cool epiphany so it's all good.</p>
<p>But yeah, what did everyone else write about?</p>
<p>did anybody do the miles davis prompt</p>
<p>hey, jack, did you submit the miles davis prompt? that's pretty cool...</p>
<p>i did the mad hatter prompt, but i pretty much set my mind to do every single prompt at one point or another before finally i settled on one.</p>
<p>i choe he'lade prompt as well, and it was the MOST BORING TOPIC EVER: my room. haha wel i guess i made it pretty personal, but i was extremely worried bout my boring essay topic...</p>
<p>haha panther i'm having the same worries (RD transfer) after reading some other essays, especially one girl who was all "MY SPECIAL PLACE IS IN A TAROT CARD LOL" and I was like woah.</p>
<p>but if that girl is reading this, your essay sounds cool, really, i just am an unoriginal noob who will get 8< by admissions.</p>
<p>My son did the Miles Davis one. He talked about growing up being "good at school" and initially "playing what's there", but over the past couple of years becoming more interested in using poetry as what he calls a "ritual of primary process" to integrate spirituality and non-linear thinking into his life. I think he ended up going on about how he enjoys returning to things he's studied in the past with new insights and POV, using his studies of Dickenson's poetry as an example.</p>
<p>I used the Miles Davis prompt to inspire a historical essay-style paper that both created a history for something that didn't have one (the party hat... random) and sort of intertwined my idea of the necessity of not taking history too seriously.</p>
<p>i picked the fourth option. my prompt was basically asking about your favorite word. i ended up writing about blueprints.</p>
<p>i got deferred.</p>
<p>I took he'lade and talked about Wikipedia...</p>
<p>Nerdiness?! IN!</p>