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[immigrantpunk]

ok so anyone on here have advice on writing college essays?
i'm trying to get a head start before midterms and i'm just kinda
staring at the question blankly

(Edited 12-04-14 9:43 pm)

ok here is the question:

Some students have a background or story that is so central to their identity that they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.


like where do i even start with that

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[conducive]

don't lie. you want them to accept YOU not some fiction you made up.

your merit is enough.

you want to be an engineer? come to work with me sometime. get some hands on experience to put on that app. well hands on in one specific field.

[immigrantpunk]

ok i'll do that

[At least someone is giving him decent advice, jeez.]

wait really? you'd let me do that?

[conducive]

yeah it'll be like a very small unpaid internship.

[ the daily minutiae of her job is boring, okay. she would like the distraction. ]

[immigrantpunk]

that would be really cool
my soccer season just ended so i have a few more afternoons free
was gonna work more but i could figure something out if that's ok

[conducive]

anytime. gonna switch to video hold on.

[ blam, there is her cute face. her hair is kind of a mess and she has glasses on, a lab coat over her floral print dress. she seems to be sitting at her desk. ]

Hi. So, as I was going to say, I don't need to do a lot of practical engineering for my job since I can... [ she holds her hand out and a ball of bright blue electricity appears in her palm, turning the video feed a little scratchy like a vcr that needs to be tuned. ] So it'll be good to have to go back and have to do it the proper way for once.

[immigrantpunk]

[Jayden does not also switch to video because he is not wearing pants. Or a shirt. And is sloppily eating Poptarts so he has crumbs all over his face. No need for this heavenly creature to see all of that.]

holy crap that is cool
did u get that from the porter

[Everyone gets cooler powers than him. Everyone.]

[conducive]

[ she snorts delicately. ]

Uh, no. No, I was born with it, apparently. Didn't show up until I was a teenager. [ she closes her hand around the electricity and it goes out, video sharpening as she does so. number one problem with her power? (aside from the death and deathiness and deathlike symptoms she can cause.) wrecks havoc on electronics.

also she misses baths. ] I was not as cool as I thought. My cat always looks startled.

[immigrantpunk]

[Goddammit and here he thought they might be from the same world. Same city, even, same little quirks only Massachusetts people would know. But no one's been popping up in Jayden's world with superpowers.

He's more disappointed than he wants to admit.]

does that happen to a lot of people where you're from?

[conducive]

Not that I know of? I only know me and Sam, my cousins. And our dads. And, well, Ben Franklin. But it's not like I went about advertising it. [ she shrugs. ] I'm sure we weren't the only ones, but if there was a secret club I wasn't invited.

[immigrantpunk]

we're prolly not from the same place then :(
there's def no powers where i come from

[conducive]

[ omg he just broke her heart a little bit with that sad face. ]

Oh, I'm sorry, sweetheart.

[immigrantpunk]

eh its ok
at least your boston sounds pretty much the same as mine

[THEY'LL ALWAYS HAVE BOSTON...]

[conducive]

Fireworks on the esplanade? Have you been to that comic book shop off Harvard Square? Oh. My. God. It's wicked awesome.

[ no, what they will always have is casual usage of regional slang and how rosie's french accent is almost buried under her boston accent when she hits particular boston names. ask her to say dorchester. she sounds like an extra from good will hunting. ]

[immigrantpunk]

do u mean newbury comics or the other one
speaking of harvard tell me you have the border cafe in your world

[conducive]

Both? [ which she says like duh. ] I spent the better part of my twenty first birthday at Border Cafe. Giant margaritas for days.

[immigrantpunk]

yeah i been to both of them
ohhhhhh DUDE
border cafe
i have been dreaming of chile rellenos and nothing here can compare
its killing me

[conducive]

Oh stop that. I'm going to start drooling.

[immigrantpunk]

i'm trying to find a decent place in heropa but the progress is slow

[conducive]

Could always just jump over to Mexico...

[ oh boston geography skills. ]

[immigrantpunk]

grab a boat and sail across the gulf?

[conducive]

Sounds good to me. We could kidnap Harvard's crew team to do the work for us.

[immigrantpunk]

yeah screw those guys

[Damn rich kids!!]