It's that time of year! Last year I made a six part guide to writing college essays, which I will link below.
There is no one way to write a college essay, but if you aren't sure where to start or which questions to ask for help, hopefully these guides can give you some foundation to work with. Below the cut I also included some honest personal advice on college essays after four years of helping people write them and graduating from undergraduate myself.
Best of luck to everyone writing essays this year!
Part One: Reading/Picking a Prompt
Part Two: Picking Your Response
Part Three: Outlining Your Essay
Part Four: Writing
Part Five: Editing - Content
Part Six: Editing - Details
Honest College Application Advice
Research/Liberal Arts- I know we all love the dark academia aesthetic, but if you are applying to any university, especially a liberal arts one, ask in your interviews, campus connections, and online research about how research vs. practical focused they are. I attended a research-heavy liberal arts university, and working to gain practical experience was another burden on my schoolwork. For example, our psychology department rarely taught applications of psychology, but focused more on experimental methods, to the frustration of many of my peers. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but try and understand how committed a university is to practical vs theoretical work.
Get the Gossip- Join that university's meme page on Facebook (seriously you will learn so much about the school from just this) and browse their school newspaper. Notice what kinds of people are publishing and about what. Online communities will usually reveal the quirks, flaws, and serious pitfalls of a school.
Think Beyond Prestige- Okay this is hard. I still struggle with this one, and so do many people I know, even the ones who dunk on Ivy Leagues all day. Hold universities accountable to suiting your long-term financial, educational, and personal goals. Take a moment to deeply compare how each university can help you fulfill your goals.
Early Decision- Early Decision can be a hard deal for many due to financial reasons, as it is a binding agreement that you will pay tuition regardless of financial aid. However, if you want to go somewhere and have the means to agree to tuition with a dice roll on scholarships, it will greatly improve your chances of acceptance at any university.
Enjoy- Listen I love reading and learning but listen if you do not get outside and do some things you maybe regret! Living your life, engaging with your hobbies, relationships, and interests will make you a much better student and interesting peer. While you are applying to college, don't forget to support your own joy and growth.
Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, Shiri Eisner, (2013)
Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life, Marjorie Garber, (2000)
Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution, Paula C. Rust, (1995)
Bi Women Quarterly (the magazine of Boston Bisexual Women’s Network) not a book but you can read their archives online, dating from 1983 to present day. Although Bi Women is available to read for free, they do ask for donations if you want to help support them.
Bi Community News, the UK’s only bisexual magasine, their archives, starting in 1995, are available to read for free.
Anything That moves, was a bi magazine created as an expansion of the San Francisco Bay Area Bisexual Network (BABN) newsletter, that ran from 1990 to 2002, heres some more info, wikipedia. They are also the organisation who wrote the 1990 Bisexual Manifesto. this site is very incomplete but its worth putting in this list incase anyone knows of any complete archives that might be available.
(i cant find any free copies of these books but you can find them sold online, please avoid buying these books from amazon)
Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out, Loraine Hutchins & Lani Ka’ahumanu (2015, updated 25th anniversary edition)
Is it just me or does 2019 feel....off? Everything is boring, the weather is weird, summer doesn’t feel right. The world isn’t fun anymore. Breaking rules is for enjoyment. People are rude and selfish. Drugs are a priority. Everyone is loosing friends, relationships are falling apart. It’s like we’re all...stuck. There’s no emotion anymore. 2018 was weird, but 2019 just feels plain sad. We’re all growing up and forgetting how to act.
Is it just me or does 2019 feel....off? Everything is boring, the weather is weird, summer doesn’t feel right. The world isn’t fun anymore. Breaking rules is for enjoyment. People are rude and selfish. Drugs are a priority. Everyone is loosing friends, relationships are falling apart. It’s like we’re all...stuck. There’s no emotion anymore. 2018 was weird, but 2019 just feels plain sad. We’re all growing up and forgetting how to act.
Now, I’m not saying romantic relationships are inferior, or that they’re useless, or that you being in one or that you shipping some characters romantically is Bad or something off the walls like that. What I’m saying is that two people (or characters, since we’re talking shipping here) can be just as devoted to each other, love each other just as deeply, mean just as much to each other while being in a platonic relationship. The end point of caring about someone doesn’t have to be romance.
Friendship isn’t a stepping stone between strangers and romantic partners, it’s a different path. And you can follow that path as deep into the wood as a romantic one if you want, and neither is inferior to the other, they just have different views.
Every part of the ace spectrum is beautiful and valid and everyone on it matters, wether they’re ace, grey-ace, demisexual, reciprosexual, or something else entirely.
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