#authenticvoice

📝✨ Using “ergo” won’t impress admissions officers who read your essays. Being you will.

Big words like “ergo,” “thusly,” or “heretofore” aren’t what make your essay great.

Clear, authentic storytelling > Thesaurus Olympics. 🏅

Admissions officers want your voice—not a Victorian novel. Say it simply. Say it sincerely.

📌 Tip: If you wouldn’t say it in real life, don’t write it in your essay.

When it comes to college essays, you don’t need a perfect story — just an honest one. Maybe you didn’t cure cancer, win nationals, or start a nonprofit at 15. That’s okay.

What matters is how you play your hand: how you reflect, grow, and respond to your circumstances. Even if your “cards” feel ordinary, your insight is what sets you apart.

💡 Colleges aren’t looking for superheroes; they’re looking for humans with heart, grit, and perspective.

Your story matters. Play it well. 🎓💬

✍️🕯️📖 Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. // Zuìhǎo wèi zìjǐ xiězuò, méiyǒu gōngzhòng, ér bùshì wèi gōngzhòng xiězuò, méiyǒu zìwǒ.

I Wanted a Rich Man With a Fast Car And I’m No Longer Apologizing for That My aunt Sherry used to joke with me about the time we watched Stuart Little as kids. After the movie, my sister Athena said she wanted to marry Stuart. I, on the other hand, said I wanted to marry a rich man with a fast car. To this day, we still laugh about it how Athena chose a rat and loved him deeply because he was a…