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How to Grab Admissions People About the Environment!
Indonesian forest fires send haze billowing across Southeast Asia yearly. Photo credit: South China Morning Post Why should I care? When I am reading your Personal Statement or supplemental essay you must keep me hooked for 400+ words. My Cardinal Rule is: you must grab me. The second you start preaching to me, boring me, or talking down to me from your soapbox or with your megaphone I am no longer listening. I want to see that you experienced something real and then flew int
May 283 min read


When Spelling Takes You Out at the Knees - A Cautionary Tale
Checking your spelling is NOT as easy as you think. In the process of elevating one's word choice you start to wade into murkier spelling waters. The only way to check it is not via spellcheck - they often give crazy advice when faced with unusual words. No, I suggest you add this app to your world: Linguee | Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch (und weitere Sprachen) . Here they place all words in the context of books and articles in which they have been previously used. As their tit
Jan 172 min read


Imperfection is Often a Recipe for Success
No university wants student robots. They want real people, imperfect people who are going to gloss up nicely once they are done with...
Jan 6, 20252 min read
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