somehow I got 95/20 on an assignment
I hope they never fix it and leave it this way forever
reblog the Awesome Grade picture for awesome grades
guys this really works i reblogged it and then got 870% on an essay
Come on… Come on…
need this for history test tmrw
Very useful to know, pass and share please.
Worth watching
I don’t mean to impose a personal favour on you guys, but I really would like to ask that everyone who follows me reblog this.
I don’t think I made it very clear but last month I was sexually assaulted by someone who I thought was my friend (I don’t want to talk about it don’t ask), and it’s… really fucked with my head.
Had I known this a month ago I would have been able to get away.
So, essentially, I’m really pleading with you to reblog this so everyone who follows you doesn’t get stuck in the same position I was with no way out.
I mean again I don’t want the point of this to be my sob story or whatever but if you could reblog this it would seriously mean a lot
and im asking to all of my followers who see this post in your dashboard to please press play to this video, you never know when this is gonna be
useful, PLEASE DON’T IGNORE IT.
This is one of the first moves I was taught in Krav Maga, and it is one of the most effective.
It took me about a half hour to get down with practice, but once you get it, it’s an intuitive movement.
Please pass this along, it will save lives.
Important
Please reblog this.
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not witchy but definitely worth watching, stay safe
Always signal boost. Stay safe everyone.
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handletheheat.com
This is SO important.
this is on my obligatory reblog list
THIS IS VERY COOL FOODY AND SCIENCEY
always chill your cookie dough if you want still chewy/soft cookies after a few days (or if you’re shipping them).
keep’s the bastards from spreading out too quickly in the oven and therefor keeps them nice and soft in the middle while keeping them from suffering from that underdone soggy thing that some times happens.
THANK YOU ALTON BROWN
This site is super informative, and it’s actually one of the sites I consulted when I was concocting the Fuck It Brownies recipe – just tons of good info.
That said…the person doing the testing/eating often has a very specific kind of outcome they want, and it is almost never the outcome I want, which I find kind of hilarious. It’s very much a sense of “thank you for testing and rejecting several recipes, I will take reject #2 because we want drastically different things out of a muffin.”
While it’s true that a lot of telemarketers are just folks trying to make ends meet, you still shouldn’t feel bad about hanging up on them in mid-sentence.
Many telemarketers aren’t actually allowed to end a call without making a sale; if they did so voluntarily, they’d be fired. By corporate edict, that call was only ever going to end in one of two ways: with you buying something, or with you hanging up on them. There’s no point trying to end the conversation politely because the script they’re working off of demands that they ignore and obstruct any attempt to do so - and they will be punished for failing to follow it.
You hanging up on them is literally the only way for them to get out of a call that’s not going anywhere, so you might as well get it over with. You’re actually doing them a favour.
Yes.
This is also an instance of a more general principle: notice when people are weaponizing social norms, and react by refusing to play the game.
Easy mode for this is the people on the street with pamphlets. They’ll weaponize social norms in an attempt to make you stop and talk to them. One script I see, for instance:
ACTIVIST: Hi! Excuse me, are you a student here?
PASSER-BY: –yes, I am.
ACTIVIST: Do you care about the ethical treatment of minorities on campus?
PASSER-BY: ….um, yes, but…
ACTIVIST: Were you aware that 90% of statistics about minorities are made up on the spot to serve as examples in tumblr posts?
PASSER-BY: …no, I wasn’t, but I really have to…
ACTIVIST: Here’s what our organization does to fight that!
…and so forth.
The trick here, of course, is that the first question is one which it’s socially unacceptable to avoid answering. If the activist opens with “would you like to help save a photogenic animal today?” you can say “no thank you.” If they open with “do you care about the whales?” you can grit your teeth and say “nope.”
But how do you respond to “are you a student here”? It’s a yes or no question, to which you definitely know the answer, so you can’t mumble something about not knowing. And it’s not explicitly related to their cause, so you can’t just automatically say “not today thanks.” (If you try either of those, they’ll call you on it – “what, you’re not a student today?”)
Ignoring them, or saying “that’s none of your business” or “leave me alone,” is a violation of social norms, and means you look like a jerk, because they asked a question that’s well within the realm of what’s socially permissible. So if you’re playing by social norms, you have to answer.
And then, once you’ve answered, you’re engaged in conversation with them. It’s an egregious violation of social norms to walk away from a conversation without going through the normal conversation-ending procedures. And they of course will not participate in those. So now you’re trapped, where you would have been free under social norms to walk past someone shouting at you about statistics if you hadn’t yet engaged with them.
The only way to escape these situations is to notice them and step outside the social game. This is hard; you will get intense this-is-awkward, I-am-being-awful-and-mean feedback from your brain, which has noticed you are violating the rules and would like you to stop. But walking away without saying anything, or saying “I don’t want to talk right now,” is in fact the correct thing to do here.
And that’s easy mode. People selling something play this game blatantly. Hard mode is people who play it expertly, within society, so that you have to go along with what they want or be forced into violating social norms. (And people will go along with a lot rather than violate social norms.) Friends who ask you for things in a way that makes it awkward to refuse. Family members who treat you badly but do it in a way contrived so that any complaint will constitute you being rude. In the really extreme cases, the same dynamic shows up in abusive relationships. It’s the adult version of an abuser convincing a kid he’ll get in trouble if he tells his parents.
So this is, IMO, a really important skill to learn and to deploy properly. Social norms are great, I love doing the dance of social convention, it’s lovely and satisfying, but if your partner keeps trying to stab you with a poisoned dagger, maybe it’s time to stop dancing. Even if that looks weird in the middle of the dance floor.
This is something I never thought needed to be broken down before, but once you did it helped make a lot of things clear. Like, I already knew that sales people are pushy and try to rope you into conversations that are difficult to terminate, but describing the reasons why those conversations feel so awkward to leave abruptly was super enlightening.
Well said.
One other reason that people feel uncomfortable breaking social norms is the fear of retaliation. This is one that the face-to-face marketers tend to play on more than the telemarketers.
There’s a reason that chuggers (“charity muggers”) frequently pick on women - female-socialised people find it harder to say “no” and walk away from a social interaction. Some of this may be due to fear of retaliation. Lots of situations in which “a stranger forces you into weird public engagement” can escalate horribly, so it’s often easier to just mumble along with them and contrive an escape. Rejection (of the chugger/catcaller/marketer) is something that sometimes leads to retaliation, so depending on your experiences you might find yourself being afraid to “just walk away.”
I have had two experiences where chuggers caught me in public and reacted badly to my flat rejections. They were both men chugging for Greenpeace, and I actually complained to the organisation about them. Because they’re playing on social norms as well, using aspects of themselves in the marketing performance, they can get waaay too invested and in-character, and treat it as a social/sexual rejection, apparently. One of them actually lost his head and chased me down the street, shouting.
Anyway the best way I found to stop both of them was to stand at bay and scream “STOP HARASSING ME”, which created such public amazement among the other people on the sidewalk that the chuggers had to put their hands up and back away.
With the chasing-guy he sort of did a defeated primal scream and went back to his pitch, presumably having come back to his senses. but the other guy just raised his eyebrows like “hey WOW fair enough” so it worked out okay.
Basically even if there is retaliation, just remember that THEY STARTED IT and THEY MADE IT WEIRD.
the thing about “well-behaved women rarely make history" is that the author, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, didn’t write it about women who would be considered “badly-behaved;“ she wrote it in a book about a midwife, about women who had been largely ignored and erased from history because as a result of their “good behaviour.” So it’s not a “BAD GIRLS DO IT WELL" kind of quote; it’s a reminder to respect and pay attention to the women who go about quietly living their lives.
it’s a reminder to respect and pay attention to the women who go about quietly living their lives.
Ooohhhhhh. New take on an old quote. Great context!
LOVE IT.
luckystrikesme asked: Would you please give an example of two paragraphs of the same subject where one is “showing” and the other is “telling”? I just can’t seem to tell the difference.
“Show, don’t tell” is a prime example of an idiom phrased so vaguely that it confuses more people than it actually helps. I promise you, though, it is helpful. You just have to be in on the underlying meaning.
So, here’s what “show, don’t tell” really means:
Write around the word you mean.
What? Okay, yeah that’s maybe a little cryptic. Let’s look at some examples!
“Telling”:
He was angry at Julia.
“Showing”:
He put down his paper and stared at Julia, his eyes glassy with blind incomprehension. Then, slowly at first, his face growing redder by the second, his muscles tightened in his jaw and neck and hands until the newspaper crumpled in his grip. He was on his feet, taller and more imposing than she’d ever seen him, and she could hear his teeth gnashing from across the room.
The point is to take a word like angry and describe the sorts of things the character would do or say while angry instead of coming right out and telling the reader that the character was angry. Details are important, and “showing” will always give the reader more information about the character than just “telling” would.
Another example? Don’t mind if I do!
“Telling”:
It was early spring.
“Showing”:
The winter frost was still melting into rain, and some days were cooler than others. The grass still crunched, but this time it was with crisp newness and not with ice, and the buds on the trees and hedgerows hinted at beautiful colors to come.
Here I’m writing around the word spring, describing the effects of spring without actually telling the reader it’s spring I’m taking about.
A little while ago I answered an ask where I talked about how “telling” might be a useful placeholder. What did I mean by that?
“Telling” as a placeholder:
They went to the store to get food for dinner.
Replaced with “showing”:
When Jan and Larry headed out on their quest for tortillas and taco seasoning, they didn’t initially think of the supermarket, but their normal grocery store, Joe’s Foods, was inexplicably closed on Tuesdays—one of its many quirks.
Larry had actually gotten out of the car to check the wrought iron gate in front of the double doors that Joe Parson, the owner and operator of Joe’s Foods, had installed to keep the neighborhood kids from, as he’d phrased it, “visiting during the closing hours.”
“Dammit, Joe!” Larry’d shouted through the gate into the darkened windows of the store. Joe wasn’t there, of course, but it must have made Larry feel better just to curse a while. After all, it was a drive out of the way to get to Joe’s Foods in the first place.
When Larry returned to the driver’s seat of their sedan, Jan suggested heading to the supermarket franchise that had asserted itself on Blighterly Road six months ago.
“We can’t go there,” Larry said. “They don’t sell ‘real food’!” Well, Larry’s interpretation of “real food” was debatable, but there wasn’t much of a choice in the matter anyway, so off they went toward Blighterly Road with Larry in a sour way.
…
You get the idea. I just wrote in “They went to the store to get food for dinner” as a placeholder until I could write what actually happened during their excursion to the market. There are still some aspects of the “showing” example that are technically “telling.” For instance, I could have actually written dialogue for Jan when she’d suggested they go to the supermarket. Dialogue is, generally, part of “showing”, so choosing to omit dialogue and merely summarize what a character said is a choice of style. Let me repeat that in a broader sense: the choice to “show” or “tell” is one of style. Too much in either direction is poisonous for a narrative’s pacing and understandability.
A few more little things about “showing” and “telling”:
So, “show, don’t tell” is not always the case. It would be better to say “show and tell”, since the decision of how much description to use in your story is a very personal matter of style. Hopefully now, though, you understand how powerful “showing” and “telling” can be, and you will apply this new-found information to your work. I wouldn’t want your readers to suffer through purple prose because some writing help blog told you once that you’re only ever allowed to “show.”
Next time someone says “show, don’t tell” to you, ask them to be more specific. Ask them to “show” you where you need better description instead of just “telling” you how to write. Otherwise, there might be throat-punching.
More on “show, don’t tell”:
Thank you for your question! If you have any comments on this article or other questions about writing, you can message us here!
-C
a whole bunch of people asked us: HELP! COLLEGE ADMISSION ESSAYS!
College admission essays are rough for exactly two reasons: there’s a lot on the line, and you don’t have the luxuries you have with any other kind of writing. In any kind of writing, you get to practice a whole lot. If you’re working on writing stories, you can write a hundred stories and they can all be terrible and it won’t matter one bit. You don’t really get that opportunity with college admission essays. That said, let’s talk a little bit about how to make your college admission essay a good one.
First, you might want to take a quick pop over to our post about essays in general. This will serve as a good background, but college admission essays are not regular essays. They are a genre of their own. With that in mind, here are some tips:
“When my dough-spattered hands untied my apron at the end of the day and I returned the rag to Uncle Leo, he smiled and said, “you worked hard today, kid.” I was proud to be there with him, even though I was covered in flour.“
Then move on to talk about the value of hard work, family, etc., etc. The essay’s focus should be on the values that you got out of the work in the bakery, not the actual work in the bakery.
The long and short of it is that this is your chance to show a bunch of strangers what kind of person you are. The essay is as much an evaluation of you and your character as it is an evaluation of your ability to write. You are being judged on your writing ability in terms of how vivid a picture of yourself you present. If the application reader can honestly say “I feel that I know a lot about this person,” then you’ve done your job. Good luck.
This is part of a nonfiction series. We have an article on research coming up soon. If you’re interested in suggesting topics for further posts, or you have any old question about writing, or you just want to tell us how lovely we are, send us a message! Further Reading:
- O
Having trouble writing that personal essay? You probably should.
But just because it’s hard doesn’t mean your chances at the Holy Trinity* are over. Here are 4 easy tips to tricking yourself to sitting down and completing one essay that needs to be golden by this December (if not earlier).
* By Holy Trinity, I mean the Ivies – Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. ;-)
It’s the time of the year again as millions of high school students are working furiously on their college applications. And it’s hard to believe that it’s been 6 years since I applied to college. When I think on that application process, I have nothing, but fond memories. I may be influenced by the fact that I was admitted into my dream school, and subsequently had the best four years of my life, during which I learned a lot, made lifelong friends, discovered my passions, and laid the foundation to pursue them. But, I think the real reason I loved the process was because I learned much more about myself, and what I was seeking in my education for the next four years. By the time I arrived on campus a year later, I was more mature and better prepared for the college experience.
The college application process isn’t about any one part of your application, but it’s about the whole picture: test scores, GPA, extracurricular activities, awards, personal statement, and interviews (if you have one). Therefore, no one aspect of your application is going to make or break it, but the personal statement is the first time you get to make an impression on the admissions committee about who you are beyond your scores, awards, and activities. Because one essay will be a testament to your passions, strengths, and character, it can be an important component of the application. Thus, it is worth spending some time to compose something that accurately represents you, and stands out against the backdrop of other applicants so that admissions officers remember you when they present you in front of the committee.
Finally, the college application can be a grueling process, and at times, it might seem like you will never finish, or that you may not get in anywhere. But ultimately, I know of no friends who did not love the school they ultimately chose to attend, and I know of no friends who did not have a mind-blowing four years (with more positives than negatives), provided that they took advantage of the opportunities offered. And, it is with this hindsight that I wanted to write a short advice column, and share my college essays in hopes that I can assuage some of the stress during the process, and help other students out there around the country approaching this crossroad portray themselves in the best light possible, and take a first step in making their dreams come true. Essay Tips:
Sometimes, all it will take is one draft on the right topic; other times, it will take many drafts, edits, and re-edits. But don’t rush to submit an essay until you are completely happy with it. Once you know that you have the best essay possible, then submit your application, and enjoy the remainder of the process. Enjoy the interviews when you get to meet alumni from the schools, and hopefully, good news (and lots of it) will come in your inbox or mailbox in the coming months. Regardless, when you finally commit to a school, you’ll find that you love it, and the next four years will be some of the best of your life. Make the most out of it.
College Essay #1 (submitted to a Top 10 college):
My brother’s applying to colleges right now, and I’ve been skyping him quite often to help go over his essays. Three years ago, I wrote essays for 20 schools. I learned quite a lot in the process, and I’m going to tell you about my favorite essay technique that I learned through much trial and error. I really wished that I had known it in the beginning - so here I will share it with you.
This should be your real opinion or experience, because people write most powerfully about things they have personally gone through. Making stuff up is a bad idea. It’s important that this is a good answer. Examples:
This will show that you are connecting concrete, tangible things to larger abstract ideas, like teamwork, community, diversity, friendship, improving the world - all the buzzwords. Of course, this means you have to really think through what your answer you picked above means. Examples:
Taking very specific examples and then extracting more abstract ideas is a very effective way of showing that you are reflective and thoughtful - the kind of student universities want. It’s a persuasive way to convey the important abstract ideas, while grounded by a story or specific example. I was accepted to every university for which I used this technique on my essays, and won a scholarship contest at UCLA for full tuition.
There are of course other ways of writing essays. This is the one that worked the best for me. Happy essay writing! :)
No, not that kind of style. Writing style. Here’s some advice on how to express yourself in an engaging, effective and stylish way.
Here’s a 40-word sentence. Can you cut it in half without changing the meaning?
Over the course of the six weeks, I became very familiar with playing the cello, the flute, the trumpet, and the marimba in the morning session while I continually learned how to play the acoustic guitar in the afternoon sessions.
Okay, here’s one way to revise it:
In six weeks, I learned the cello, flute, trumpet, and marimba in the mornings and acoustic guitar in the afternoons.
There. Half the words and retains the meaning.
This may sound contrary to the first point but it ain’t. Why? Sometimes we’re just trying to pack too much into the same sentence.
Check this one out:
For an inquisitive student like me, Brown’s liberal program provides a diverse and intellectually stimulating environment, giving me great freedom to tailor my education by pursuing a double concentration in both public health and business, while also being able to tap into other, more unconventional, academic interests, such as ancient history and etymology through the first year seminars.
That’s a lot for one sentence, eh?
This sentence is what I’d call “top heavy.” It has a lot of important information in the first half–so much, in fact, that I need a break before I can take in the bits at the end about “ancient history” and “etymology.” Two options for revising this:
Option 1. If you find yourself trying to pack a lot into one sentence, just use two.
Two sentences work just as well, and require no extra words. In the example above, the author could write:
For an inquisitive student like me, Brown’s liberal program provides a diverse and intellectually stimulating environment, giving me great freedom to tailor my education by pursuing a double concentration in both public health and business. I also look forward to pursuing other, more unconventional, academic interests, such as ancient history and etymology through the first year seminars.
Option 2: Just trim the first half of the sentence to its essence, or cut most of it.
That might look like this:
At Brown I look forward to pursuing a double concentration in both public health and business, while also tapping into other, more unconventional academic interests, such as ancient history and etymology.
And just for the record (for all the counselors who might be wondering), I don’t actually write out these revisions for my students; I ask questions and let them figure it out. In this example, for instance, I highlighted the first half of the sentence and wrote, “Can you make this more concise?”
Hello! I’m about to start uni in a few weeks so I thought now would be a good time to share my top tips for writing a good personal statement. There is no ‘special formula’ for writing a good one but these are some tips I picked up from family, friends, online articles, teachers and universities themselves:
as an example, here’s what I wrote about in my personal statement:
I hope this is helpful and good luck! Please feel free to ask me any questions you may have! :)
I’ve had a few asks about how to write - as one of you put it - a bomb ass personal statement. I’m a bit reluctant to write this, seeing as I haven’t actually got an interview/offer yet! But I guess it might be helpful to those of you applying around now :)
HOW TO START
THE CONTENT
WHAT TO INCLUDE
WHAT NOT TO INCLUDE
THE ENDING
Happy September, everyone!
As we all get our gears in motion to start a new year, I thought I would share my top tips for scoring the highest marks in English Literature essays.
(P.S. Lots of these tips are applicable to other subjects too)
Unfortunately, this is a common error in English Lit essays. It is absolutely imperative to remember that a character is not a person, but is a construct of the writer in order to present an idea or theme. No matter the question, you should be linking your answer back to the writer’s ideas and theme of the text, even if it doesn’t seem obvious what the theme is on the first inspection of the question. Using the author’s name frequently in your essay will demonstrate that you recognise the character is not a real person - ‘Shakespeare portrays Macbeth as a tragic hero, as defined by Aristotle as…’
Avoid analysing the plot or when things happen in the text. Don’t write ‘When X happens it makes us think Y’. Instead:
You need to be explicitly answering the question - not going off on a tangent nor trying to change the question to suit an answer that you want to write. One way of avoiding this is by starting each paragraph with a topic sentence, summarising what that paragraph is going to be about and how it answers the question. Another method is simply by rewording the question into your answer at the start and end of every paragraph. At least. For greater impact, include synonyms of the word, which can also help with the readability of your answer.
Thousands of students are taught the same, basic Point-Evidence-Explain (or variant) analytical paragraph structure. If you want to stand out, show academic strength, and achieve the highest marks then you must break free from the chains of PEE! (This also applies for your introduction format. ‘In this essay, I will argue…’ gets pretty dull after reading it 100 times)
For my students, I will be teaching them to write What-How-Why paragraphs:
WHAT has the writer done?
HOW have they done it?
WHY have they done it/is it effective?
This way, your focus is always on why the writer has chosen to use that specific language/structure/form, but it allows you to be creative in crafting your response. Being able to discuss the ‘why’ of literature is the key to unlocking the highest grades. Reading through examiners’ reports this summer has made one thing clear - it is not enough to merely spot linguistic devices or structural features. You must explain why the writer has chosen them and why that is an effective choice (or not).
The main advice here is to only include comments about the context of the text if it adds to the analytical point that you are making. They should not be a bolt-on sentence, but they should enhance your answer.
Further, sweeping claims like ‘All Jacobean women were oppressed by society’ is far too vague. On the other hand, a comment like ‘Lady Macbeth is a disturbing example of womanhood because she denies her gender at a time where the role of a woman was clear-cut, even patriarchal, in Jacobean society’ suggests that you have a greater understanding of how context can influence the writer’s choices.
Always, always make time to plan your answer. A method I recommend is, first, circling the key words in the question (character/theme, what you are asked to do, where in the text you are asked to look, etc.). Secondly, write all of your ideas down onto the page, highlighting parts from the extract if you have that in front of you. Finally, select a judicious number of points that you are going to talk about (quality not quantity here) and number the order in which you are going to make them.
If you are writing a comparative essay, each paragraph must start and end with a comparative point about whatever it is you are comparing (characters/themes/etc.) I suggest the following format:
‘X is presented in both text A and text B. However, in A the author uses device 1 and 2 to demonstrate X. On the other hand, in B, the author demonstrates X via use of device 2 and 3.’ Then write one paragraph for each text. Repeat this again for another similarity. And again for a third - if you think that is appropriate.
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About the cliche essay thing you reblogged about .. Then what can one write about if not those things ?? Like ?? I don't get it it's kind of hard not to write about those things
Hey, so a lot of people have been sending asks like these, so I just want to throw in my own two cents about cliched personal essays:
I get that your dog’s death meant a lot to you. I really, really do. But in the harsh and competitive world of college admissions, there are dozens upon dozens of other applicants that have also mourned the loss of the family pet. You can bet that they’re going to write their essays about it too. And when you write about the same thing as a few hundred other people, your application gets lost in the crowd.
So what makes a good personal essay?
Write about something that no one else will write about. Write in detail and with your own unique voice. Write about the things that matter to you, and don’t use cliches to dance around it. In the dog example, a cliche would be “so-and-so’s death made me sad and taught me that life is valuable.” That’s generic to the point of meaninglessness. Ask yourself, “Could anyone else have written this?” If the answer is yes, you’re doing it wrong.
A better essay would explore WHY and HOW your dog’s death impacted you the way it did. Do you regret the times you scolded him or her for jumping onto the couch? Did you become a better person? Do you still hear the sound of dog tags clinking in the morning, when you’re caught between sleep and reality? How has this event impacted other parts of your life? How has it shaped who you’ve become?
Those are all great questions to explore, and they’re the difference between a cliched essay and a great one.
Conquering the Why Major? Essay, by findx
If you’re applying to colleges, you’ll probably be asked to write about why you want to study a particular subject. Why do you want to major in biochemistry or psychology or anthropology? I’m here to help you write an engaging, persuasive essay that will help you get into the school of your dreams.
What if you don’t know what you want to study? That’s fine! Colleges know that your aspirations will likely change. Just write about what you currently want to major in. If you’re super, super undecided, pick a subject that’s related to your extracurriculars (for example, if you volunteer a lot at the hospital, maybe go for pre-med).
Let’s get right into the most common mistakes I see on Why Major? essays:
-Being generic. Saying, “I want to study political science/math/etc. to help impact the world” is really general. Okay, any major has the potential to contribute meaningfully to society. Why do you specifically want to learn this major? Saying something like “I want to study political science because I interned under a senator last summer and fell in love with the work” is a lot more powerful.
-Being too honest. Saying, “I want to go into pre-med because doctors make a lot of money” or “I’m going to study engineering because that’s what my parents want” is not going to help you, even if those are the real reasons why you’re interested in the subject! Emphasize your passion and genuine interests.
So how can you make your essay stand out?
-Talk about how you’ll apply your degree to a future career. I know a girl who got into Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, and UChicago by talking about how she wanted to study both music and neuroscience to learn about how music impacted mental health. Colleges want students who will use their knowledge to make the world a better place.
-Tie in your personal experiences. Talk about past extracurriculars, sure, but also discuss what motivates you. One of my former classmates wrote about how a sibling’s cancer spurred her to pursue pre-med. Show that you have a true emotional stake in the subject you want to spend the next four years studying.
-Get a little creative. Every year, universities get thousands of applicants who want to study computer science. Make yourself stand out by telling a funny anecdote, or using a unique metaphor.
Good luck! I’m still giving feedback on essays, so if you want me to look over your writing, please message me. If you want more information, check out my other posts:
Alrighty guys I’m going to make a master post of how I use the app Goodnotes. Ive been getting some questions and I think this shoud answer a bunch!
*extremely long post- sorry!*
All of your files show up in your library organized to your liking.
You can choose whatever kind of paper that suits your fancy!
If you click the zoom tool at the top of the tool bar you get this handy dude. Its zoomed in box that you write in to make it easier.
change your pen color to whatever makes you happy…
You can even change the color of your ink after the fact! Use the little lasso tool in the tool bar to circle what you want changed. Hold down and some options come up- choose color and then go to town.
writing is super smooth because of this fantastic blue box- every time you get close to the edge of your ipad screen, it’ll come up. Simply start writting in it and the box will shift over.
If you use that lasso tool again you can convert your handwriting to text!
Click the 3 little circles in the upper right> search and you can search within your stuff!
Theres also an insert bubble for whatever glorious thing you want
use the shape guide tool to make perfect squares/lines/triangles/etc..
(You can import images too! ^)
Don’t forget your highlighter!
Change your line thickness under pen settings…
Print!! Perfect for getting physical copies of your notes to mark up.
Also export…
There you have it! Happy note-taking :)
