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Don’t Compare Yourself to Others in Your College Essays

admin — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 19:55:06 +0000

by Michelle From last week’s post on emotional growth, Essay Narwhals should understand how it is important to show maturity and understanding of your own emotions. The topic for today’s post will jump off of that idea as a launching point. Many students know that they wish to show the best sides of themselves in a college essay. However, there is one simple trap that many students fall into when

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Chewing the Scenery

admin — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 18:13:21 +0000

by Albert Leo After an arduous hike to the summit of a mountain, you might feel a sense of accomplishment and take in the scenery to enjoy the vista. But within the hustle and bustle of your day to day lives, you’re not often asked to really capture your surroundings. Unfortunately, your college essays require you to draw and catalogue those moments. So how do you chew the scenery

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Think Small to Show the Big Picture

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 21:10:26 +0000

by Albert Leo With all the thoughts of relaying your hopes and dreams into your essay, you can sometimes go too big and broad, unintentionally making your writing not as relatable. It’s important that you make your aspirations digestible and anchor them through personal experiences. Powerful stories often tap into the smaller moments we have with other people. Humans, like narwhals in their pods, are a social species. We relate

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The Trouble with Topic Sentences

admin — Sat, 29 May 2021 00:04:24 +0000

by Albert Leo Writing for narratives, like the essays that you will write for your college essays, often requires flexing completely different muscles than the ones you use in writing for school assignments. Teachers may assign you to read compelling novels and even teach you some techniques that authors employ for an engaging story, but they often don’t make you use narrative techniques in your own writing. This is why

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