<p>I loved this prompt too! It was genius of them to ask it.
I think you can find out a lot about a person by how they choose to answer this one…
I wrote, I think, my best college essay for this prompt! 
It took me forever to think of a good response, but I’m really happy with the response I came up with, and I was able to weave in a really cool life experience too! 
Im really hoping that Brown likes my essay as much as I do…</p>
<p>Same here fianchetto and cellochick. There i was on my christmas break innocently reading the prompts for the brown essays, enjoying my month break from TOK and i came across this prompt. I nearly choked. I knew that with this prompt i wouldn’t be able to express who i am as a person because with these types of q’s i get into TOK mode, and in reality i am not some renounded philosophical ‘thinker’! I’m just me really, haha.
i made up my own prompt</p>
<p>^ HAHAHAHA TOK… I’m so glad im DONE with that class. That was the very first thing I thought of reading this prompt and i added some TOK stuff, too, but I made sure to emphasize who I am and my thought process. I tried to stay as far away as possible from TOK.</p>
<p>^Lmao quite a few IB kids on here. TOK was the first thing that popped up into my mind too the first time I read the prompt. But I hate TOK so I stayed far, far, far away from it as I tried to answer “What Don’t You Know?”
My friend actually liked that one least out of all the essays I wrote. Fail.</p>
<p>Yeah, interesting prompt, but I think one would have to be really clever and creative to approach this well.</p>
<p>I opted to discuss an intellectual experience.</p>
<p>mmm oh IB buddies. yeah, i can see how tok might actually prevent you from getting across who YOU are, since it can make you take a really different approach to things, and kinda forces you to sound abstract and philosophical 
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<p>My teacher had us do an essay in the style of NPR’s “this i believe” program, and I had done mine on my own ignorance, so it just happened to go really well with the prompt. Still got in the thinking, but also got across who i am</p>
<p>***? Am I the only one who hates this prompt? Seriously, listing everything one doesn’t know is sort of lame unless you narrow your possible knowledge to a specific topic.</p>
<p>No one’s advocating that you make a list. You can definitely pick one experience/anecdote and talk about it or make this essay more philosophical.</p>
<p>you guys have TOK (I’m assuming that stands for theory of knowledge) classes at your school? LUCKY my school is so conventional. we dont even have theoretical math or econ.</p>
<p>anyway, I was going to pick this topic and answer: I don’t know if God exists, but I decided to go with prompt A</p>
<p>Yeah, TOK is a requirement for all IB diploma students. One that has caused us all a great deal of distress i’m sure, haha</p>
<p>oh I’m on the AP system ;)</p>