11-11-10 9:19PM I'm talking about college essays, not morality.
A good college essay is enjoyable to write and to read. My friends find it interesting, as does Mr. Cadwell and Mr. Conroy, which is impressive, really, seeing as they're the English and Post-High School Counseling Department Chairs. Better yet, I never get sick of revising them, because each revision only makes them better. Even when I'm sitting by the computer at 11PM on a Saturday with my dad trying to figure out which 36 characters to delete from Stanford 2 so it'll fit on the application, I still enjoy reading the essay. Even though it's my bajillionth time. On the 17th draft.
Okay, so I've exaggerated, but not that much! In the good essays my pen just flows across the paper, not to fast and not to slow, but along with my thoughts. I never type a first draft - my fingers work to quickly and loudly for my thoughts to run straight.
A bad college essay, on the other hand, is just plain embarrassing. It happens if I'm not in the right mood, usually, or if my brain's not in the right place. In that case, there's hardly any point to fix it up because it'll never be decent. All you can do is scrap the draft and start over.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
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