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Celebrating the start of the semester with my new bullet journal and some calligraphy practice :) Good luck with your classes, everyone!

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If I had a dime for every time someone asked me if Iâm going into teaching when I tell them Iâm getting an English degree, Iâd have enough money to pay for my English degree.
School is in less than a month
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Massive College Essay Masterpost
How To Do the Thing (aka advice)
How to write and essay by MIT admissions blog
9 tips from USA Today
Tips from College Board
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3 more essay types from College Board
Common essay questions from @thisnerdsadventures
Tips from @basic-appblr
Tips from @ohshitcollege
How to start from @collegeapp-chick
Tips from @studyingwildcat
Tips for âwhy usâ essay from @filmstudent2
Supplement tips from @collegeapp-chick
On unique essays from @collegeapp-chick
On writing about your grades from @collegeapp-chick
Tips from @genericappblrurl
How to focus on essays from @studiixÂ
Who should read your essays from @collegeapp-chick
What colleges want from The Prospect
Writing process by @kittysappblr
Tips from @appsademia
Tips on the âwhy usâ essay from @dartmvthensis
How to write a strong essay from @dartmvthensis
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See the Thing Done (aka samples)
Essay from a student who got into all the Ivies via Business Insider
Sample essay from College Board
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On the common app essay from @hotdamnford
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Thanks for the shoutout @learninqs! Good luck to everyone trying to write some college essays this summer :)
my skills include reading an entire page of an academic text without absorbing a single word

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self discipline tips
here are tips I discovered very recently:
something is better than nothing. 5 minutes of work are better than zero. Just because you missed something on your schedule doesnât mean you canât still work on it, even for 5 minutes. Grow and build on this.
second drafts / reviews can be done after.
Donât think you are going to do your very best work on the first try. Take the weight of perfectionism off your shoulders.
donât think about doing it. just do it as fast as you can.
build on your productivity, not your failures.
If you come from a past of procrastinating and now feel motivated to change and discipline yourself, do NOT try to do everything at once.
if you have a set of different goals to accomplish, begin with the most important one. Wait until the rotine of working for that one settles in (you feel productive and comfortable-ish), and then begin with the next. Repeat.
this way youâll be building your way up and not juggling everything at the same time, hoping everything works out.
be patient with yourself, youâll get there!
set smaller deadlines for your goals
have monthly and weekly-ish deadlines
e.g. if you are doing a project, due 22nd Feb, set personal deadlines, like have Introduction written by 2nd Feb, have Methods written by 10th Feb, have project complete by 18th Feb.
take them as seriously as you possibly can, donât miss out on yourself.
write realistic daily tasks and donât stop until you finish them. after them you can do whatever you want
on writing realistic daily tasks, the secret is knowing you can only do so much in one day, but trusting you can accomplish everything in the course of any period of time (a week, or 2 weeks or a month, etc.) because you will combine the work from all these different days.
itâs very tempting to write down all the tasks you need to accomplish in one day to just get over with it, but the real deal is you wonât accomplish half of them. Youâll feel very unproductive then, wich leads to demotivation.
spread daily tasks in the time necessary.
have a consistent sleep schedule.
if your mind isnât ready everything will fall apart.
have one rest day per week where you plan nothing, do whatever you want except studying. this can be harder than you expect!
(donât forget these are effective only if you actually put them into practice! good luck babes!!)
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why did i just find your blog!! i'm an applicant to the U of R and i've been looking for blogs of current students in vain for so long! haha
I â¤ď¸UR! I think everyone should apply here, and I'm glad that at least you did! If you have any questions feel free to ask :)

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7:31 pm Long night ahead, but I have emergency chocolate rations prepared...
like a true person involved in academia, i should be writing right now.
however, like a true person involved in academia, i am not.
So, I wont beat around the bush, I am an awful writer. I think I'm decent at reading analysis and verbal discussion, but when it comes to writing I struggle. It's like I'm trying to squeeze blood from a rock. My profs tell me I'm thoughtful, insightful, and I have a strong writers voice, but that I struggle with basic expression. I've gone to get writing help with tutors on campus, but my writing just isn't improving. Do you have any tips from one English student to another?
Lucky for you, tutoring/teaching English essay writing is literally my job. My basic tips would be:Â
Go through my âacademic writingâ tag and see if anything jumps out to you. Â
Keep your sentence structures simple. If a big problem is your expression, then the best thing you can do is keep your sentences short. Try to stick to one subject + one verb + one object basics for the most part. (At least until this stops being a problem.)Â
Similarly, keep your word choice simple. Contrary to common belief, big words donât automatically make your expression stronger.Â
P. E. E. Try to follow âPoint. Example. Explanation.â structure. Make sure you provide an example for every point you make, and then make sure you explain it in your own words. That can often be a stumbling block for students trying to actually express their analysis.Â
PRACTICE. If youâve been going to see tutors and you still donât see a difference, then the best thing you can do is practice. I see the biggest changes in students who take this advice and do exercises on their own. Pick a passage you think would be interesting to analyze. Write a few paragraphs on it. Make up an essay question and give yourself an hour and a half to see what you can do with it. Take those practice essays to your tutors and see what new criticism they have. Ask them to pick your individual sentences apart or, if thatâs against department policy, then find a friend or (preferably) a private tutor who would be willing to put that much work into your writing! Let them help you get better one sentence at a time.
Best of luck! Getting a hang of essay writing can be a long and frustrating process, but I promise it gets easier the more you do it. That your profs think youâre insightful and good at analysis is already a great starting point!Â
Active voice: I will write Passive voice: Writing will be done Passive-aggressive voice: I love how you always say youâll write but never do
Thanking God that my library has a fountain of wisdom because I need all the help I can get with this paper...

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how are the people on college confidential so accomplished? i was browsing a results thread and i saw a person who's apparently a national level award winner in ice skating, fund-raising, writing and more. how are they so good at so many things? are the people on college confidetial superhumans? liars? something else? the idea that i have to compete with people like this really scares me
I canât speak to whether or not this person actually did all that, but no, cc people are not superhuman. A lot of them are extraordinarily privileged and have been trained from a very young age in a variety of disciplines; a lot of them have been focused primarily on getting into college since they were in elementary school. Yes, these people make up some of your competition. However, theyâre not you. Theyâre not a better version of you, or a more accomplished version of you, or a more worthy version of you. Youâre the only you. Own it. Yes, it takes some level of accomplishment to stand a chance at top-tier universities, but not this level. And once you get here, thereâs very little way of knowing who was an overachiever and who wasnât.
My advice to you: stop reading college confidential. It wonât do anything but make you feel like shit for ever taking time to sleep, eat, or have friends. Any question you have can be answered in a more constructive environment. You wonât be missing out.
(I personally can answer questions about the admissions process and Stanford-specific issues, and I know a lot of people on here who attend different schools are also happy to help.)Â