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Essay Test: Maturity, Diversity, and Laundry
The following essay was submitted to highly selective universities in response to this prompt: Describe the world you come from — for example, your family, community or school — and tell us how your...
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Life-giving Sentences: Bloomsday Re-Joycing
Can a single sentence tell us if a writer is good, great or just not worth reading? If this seems like a bad question I am borrowing it from writer who has the credentials to at least get our...
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How Do You Find A Job You Love? Education, Priorities and Independence
What are your priorities? Do you have a list? For those starting the search for the right universities to attend have you set priorities about what you wish to learn and how you wish to grow? Are you...
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Essay Test: Bonsai and Daffodils
The following essay was submitted to highly selective universities in response to the prompt: Describe the world you are...
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The Wisdom of a Founding Father: Education, Fit, and History
Where do we look for wisdom? There are many answers to this question but one source many people turn and return to can be summed up in in two words: “Founding Fathers”. (The phrase needs amending to...
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Diversity Part 2: Voices, Questions, and the Supremes
In the first part of my examination diversity as it is used in the US and especially as it applies to colleges and universities, I tried to give examples of individuals who challenged some of the...
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Seeing the world and yourself with new eyes: Gap Year
The following piece was published in The Washington Postlast week. I would like to thank Adrienne Wichard-Edds for interviewing me about this topic and for letting me post it...
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Taxi Cab Confessions: Epic Journey with Heroes
Peirene Fountain, favored by Pegasus. Corinth, GreeceFor those who have even wondered about what it is like to travel the world as a representative of college or university, the simple answer is...
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Essay Test: Travel, Philosophy -- Inside Out
The following essay was submitted as a part of the application materials to highly selective universities in the US.*******************************************************************************I...
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Recommendation Test; Part 4
The following recommendation was submitted for a student applying to highly selective universities.******************************************************************************Emily is like a peacock...
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Maps To Anywhere: Learning, Liberal Arts, and Whitworth
“How do you get there from here?” We have all asked this question at one time or another. In the interview that follows, Marie Whalen shares how she got from one place on the globe to quite a few...
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Essay Test: Is Emily poetic or self-centered?
The following essay was submitted to a highly selective university in response to the prompt: What is your favorite word and...
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Hans Holbein, Julie Lythcott-Haims, Four Tet
"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations." Montesquieu
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Finding Your Passion: Opera, Film, Birds and Words
They got it backwards. “Lights. Camera. Action!” describes a take for a film. Long before that ever happens, however, there needs to be a whole lot preliminary actions first. Filmmaker Priscilla Goh...
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Taxi Cab Confessions: Epic Journey with Heroes
Peirene Fountain, favored by Pegasus. Corinth, GreeceFor those who have even wondered about what it is like to travel the world as a representative of college or university, the simple answer is...
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The Bottom Line? Learn, Work, Innovate
Why should students consider studying majors that focus on a passion rather than a potential career?I assume by 'potential career', you mean a career in which you can make a lot of money, as soon as...
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It's a small world after all? Words from an expert
“No, no anything but that” Scar shouts to ZaZu when he begins to sing “It’s a small world after all” in the film version of The Lion King. It is a great comic moment. It makes fun of a Disney cliché...
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Case Study & Modest Proposal: Get to Know the Person or Country You Judge
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light,...
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Hans Holbein, Mark Edmundson, Feder
Good art is a truing of vision, in the way a saw is trued in the saw shop, to cut more cleanly. It is also a changing of vision. Entering a good poem, a person feels, tastes, hears, thinks, and sees in...
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Job and Life Advice from Jane Chin, Leadership and STEM Expert
What does it mean to be smart? From Socrates to Howard Gardner there are thousands who have addressed this topic. The wise words that follow come from Jane Chin, an expert not just on being smart, but...
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