Humorous College Essay

[Conor Ryan]

Originally Posted by iCurtis

Well if you read the top of the page,

i've seen the same thing before only the student attended MIT. Let me see if i can pull it up somewhere, the link I had saved is dead. So...I found this page which is also pretty funny

[Dorienne]

What scares me about this essay...is that its author was accepted to a University.

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

In reality, it demonstrates skill in writing.

He organizes his paragraph. He answers the essay question. And he does it with style. College essays are meant to be like that.

[dubious elise]

Genia, you only know how much I loved that one!
In response, I give you a list of, for lack of a better word, "phrases" from college enterance examinations given in Ireland a few years back.

Note: I saw that some came up on the "Terrible Analogies" page as well, some have these have been passed around quite a bit!

[Pat Fairbank]

Speaking of funny things you find in student essays...

[c-squared_2006]

Thanks I needed that, I was just trying to compose a college essay myself. Wow, food for thought! *Big Smile*