What was YOUR Kenyon essay??

Colleges & Universities A-Z Kenyon College
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<p>I think Kenyon doesn't get a lot of street cred for its essays...they're much better than Chicago's.</p>

<p>So here's the rules:</p>

<p>Post what you wrote for your Kenyon essays, or you can just post your essay if you'd like.</p>

<p>Why Kenyon</p>

<p>Working together:</p>

<p>Funny One: </p>

<p>For why Kenyon, mine was just generic. Same with working together (i talked about theater)
And I really really really enjoyed the least one. Probably the only essay i actually enjoyed writing. I wrote the monster one and how I leave it blank and it opens up a world of possibilities for me...</p>

<p>any thoughts?</p>

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<p>Cool. For the creative one, I did an extended analogy comparing my books to a map. I said I didn’y know what the edges said coz I hadn’t got there yet…</p>

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<p>ha, i did theatre for working together, too. and i sort of compared my monsters to doubts and expectations that prevent me from living life. it was fun because i got to wax poetic.</p>

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<p>i did the maps(who didn’t though? Best prompt by far!), at my border was godzilla and other b-movie monsters. “Destroy them I must!” (i have many fears at my border like public speaking, but I know i will have to tackle them in my life to truly live)</p>

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<p>Neuroscientists prompt, I wrote about faith. Partnership, I wrote about working with my dad every summer for years through the desert.</p>

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<p>Map prompt- I just wrote in general of the ocean of possibilities in front of me education-wise…only it sounded much better :3</p>

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<p>I really liked my D’s response to the map prompt. There are no shortcuts … it’s not about getting from point A to B as fast as possible. It’s the journey that has meaning.</p>

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<p>For the working together prompt I wrote about how my cousins and I used to write petitions together when we were young and give them to our parents whenever we wanted to do something.
For the creative one, I used the prompt about a recent discovery and talked about one of my hobbies, geocaching.</p>

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<p>For the working together prompt, I wrote about the Invisible Children’s Rescue of Joseph Kony’s Child Soldiers Event. For the fun prompt, I wrote about how the edges of my map would be about apathy and complacency.</p>

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<p>I went for the hilt with the map prompt: I talked about my recent search for religion (something I very much doubt the mods would like me to talk about it detail. Suffice to say I was atheist, now I’m not). I took the map prompt differently than may people, taking the edges as areas to be explored and eventually made my own. So yeah…</p>

<p>The Partnership one I talked about a judo class I had set up with a past teacher.</p>