"500 words or less"

FIRECAKE

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#195145601Tuesday, August 02, 2016 12:54 AM GMT

please demonstrate your writing style but do not write enough to truly develop a writing style f###.

perrandude

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#195145640Tuesday, August 02, 2016 12:55 AM GMT

is this for a college app

FIRECAKE

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#195145673Tuesday, August 02, 2016 12:55 AM GMT

yes i'm looking over the UMD essay questions

FIRECAKE

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#195145852Tuesday, August 02, 2016 12:57 AM GMT

"4. What is the hardest part of being a teenager now? What’s the best part? What advice would you give a younger sibling or friend (assuming they would listen to you)?" god i can just imagine the cringey responses they will get from this one. people attempting to sound sophisticated using words they don't know to prove a statement they have trouble defining. smh.

FIRECAKE

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#195145941Tuesday, August 02, 2016 12:58 AM GMT

i almost want to write my essay like a middle finger to the university or just about something completely out there to stand out probably just going to censor myself and write about the same stuff as always

Wondowlowski

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#195146023Tuesday, August 02, 2016 12:59 AM GMT

kiss ass before you kick it

perrandude

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#195146421Tuesday, August 02, 2016 1:05 AM GMT

dude the essay questions for UT and A&M wtf ugh i'm just doing UT's application right now and crying because i've been confused on like two minor questions so far as to what to enter in

MarioKartAddict

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#195146490Tuesday, August 02, 2016 1:06 AM GMT

the #1 thing i've heard (though they were talking about the highly selective colleges) was write what you want to write, not what you think the admissions counselors want to hear - everyone is writing like that and you won't stand out

FIRECAKE

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#195146838Tuesday, August 02, 2016 1:11 AM GMT

yeah i am not some copy and paste formulaic "this is what they want to hear" writer, never have been i would rather have no constraint and then just have them throw out the idiots who write 7 pages to allow people who actually know how to write do what we are capable of