Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Blimey! Application Essays!

"Using the statement below as a jumping off point, tell us about an event or experience that helped you define one of your values or changed how you approach the world." But how often does that happen? For most of us life isn't so dramatic. Values and worldviews are shaped, for the most part, by slow, long, drawn-out processes, and not the traceable results of clearly-defined events or experiences.
Or maybe they're asking you to generate your own drama. What happened, happened. How you want to tell it, though, is an entirely subjective decision. It's like giving a new twist to Tolstoy's quip about history being a doll one dresses up according to one's whimsy.

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