The College Essay Yogurt Edition!

The College Essay Yogurt Edition! I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors either yields blissful joy, or, sometimes, yucky disappointment. When I applied to college 2 years ago (2 years! Im old :( ), I wrote over a dozen unique essays to all the colleges I applied to (btw applying to 15 colleges not such a good idea. its tiring, it costs a ridiculous sum of money in application fees, counselors get mad at you for making them work so much =p, and you have to narrow your list down after you get the acceptance letters anyway). I didnt believe in the one size fit all approach when it came to the college essay, and so I strove to write an unique essay for the differing prompts that each college required (there were some exceptions I submitted my MIT essay for Columbia; I still applied via Common App for a couple schools so there were overlaps therebut for all additional essays I tried to tailor them individually). okok. enough rambling. =p 1. Froyo is meant for experimenting. So it is the same with the college essay. Ever walk into a shop with one of those glass cases with all the toppings laid out in a symphony of delicious colors? Sure, its safe to get strawberry (thats what I always get. XP) But why always get the same? College admission officers read upwards of tens of thousands of application essays in one application cycle, so how is your essay going to be different than the myriad of other competing essays? Too often, I notice students get caught in a rut when theyre writing the college essay. Many feel that there always needs to be a moral to the story, and so inevitably all essays end with some variant of these sentences: 1) I felt that I grew a lot from the adversity present in this situation and it really shaped who I am today, 2) Having spent all four years of high school doing this activity, I feel like it became an inseparable part of myself, 3) Having been through so many things and having all of the qualities described above, I feel like Im ready to tackle whatever will come my way. I feel like the most beautiful college essays are the essays that dont hand the reader its moral (or point so to speak) explicitly on a silver platter. The most compelling essays I feel are those that sufficiently paint the picture for the reader, and then leave him on his own to reach his own conclusions. Just look at the Mona Lisa did da Vinci write, in golden font at the base of the painting, Look at her enigmatic smile. Its beautiful!? But-but- you ask, Arent we trying to answer a question? If we dont conclude, how are they going know that I addressed the question? Throughout your years of schooling, the standard introduction-body-conclusion system is ingrained into your mind. You were trained to begin an essay with a well-defined introduction with a thesis sentence, proceed into the body with topic sentences for each individual paragraph, and close with a conclusion that restates the thesis. Works for APUSH essays works for research papers but the college essay? Boring. Yes most college essays will ask you to address a topic (like the MIT main essay) but dont approach it in the same way as you would with a research paper. A research paper is structured thus because youre trying to provide a well-organized collection of facts to a reader that may or may not be interested in what you have to say. With the college essay youre trying to convey a slice of your life, and thus you can take liberties in straying away from the conventional structure. Experiment with your writing style. Approach it differently from how you would typically start an essay. Write it and then at the end come back and ask yourself did I convey my point across effectively? If the answer is a resounding yes! congrats! But- how do you do that? Read on ;) (btw, strawberry-kiwi-mango = loveee. its tri-colored too! =p) 2. Marshmellow-butterscotch-blueberry-oreo-mango-pineapple-waffle? Not cute. Consider the following examples: At times, it appeared that we were surmounting an impassable obstacle. However, through the camaraderie and the solidarity of our aquatics team, we triumphed over our defeats and inevitably reached the pennant of victory. Back in July, my friends made fun of me when I told them that I was going to start a swimming team. Laughing, they told me to return to my math problems. Today, standing in the limelight, I look over at my teammates and cant help but marvel at how far weve come. Two sentences notice a difference? Which one draws you closer to the author? Its not surprising that you may find the second sentence to be a lot more down-to-earth. The simple reason is just because the sentence is conveying a narrative in an everyday tone, rather than adopting pedantic verbiage. Another problem that I see a lot in my peers back in the day when we were all applying to college is that people would try really hard to make themselves sound educated by trying to use all of these advanced vocabulary in their essays. Not satisfied with improved? Try ameliorated. Common sounds too simple? What about pedestrian? Often, their essays end up turning into a convoluted amalgam of abstruse discourse, confounding the audience in a valiant embellishment of protracted circumlocution. A note of caution here: Im not trying to say that you should tone down your writing if you use a lot of vocabulary in your writing but be careful of what the voice in your essay sounds like. Does it sound like you, or does it sound like someone thats trying too hard with a thesaurus? At the bottom line, the essay should be about you so dont be afraid of showing your own voice! (believe me an essay that tries too hard is very easy to spot) (Im going to segue into something cool that you can do with your essay here, but please dont solely use this test to measure how good your essay is! That is something no machine can tell you. Youve been warned. Click.) 3. The first and last spoonfuls are the sweetest. Sometimes I steal a bite of my friends froyo (instead of buying my own -____-| | |) cuz I think one spoonful with all the icy yogurt-tangy goodness is heaven enough. And so it is with the college essay. Consider your lead-in and your ending (namely, the first sentence and your last sentence, but more broadly, your first paragraph-ish and your last paragraph). When you took the SAT, you were probably exhorted to use an engaging opening sentence in your essay, since the graders will spend no more than a couple of minutes on your essay, and sometimes the opening sentence is the most important factor in luring the reader in. The college essay is very much the same way the adcoms have thousands of them to sort through, and a banal essay would probably begin with something like An experience that changed my life is Someone that I looked up to isbecause Be engaging, be active. Paint a picture for your audience. Personally, I liked telling stories in my essays. I nearly always began each essay with a short narrative, since it makes the lead-in a lot easier (you can basically just segue into whatever you want to talk about through the little story that youve laid out). As for the conclusion, my AP Literature teacher was fond of saying that a great essay always contains something at the end for the reader to think about. For example, classics in world literature rarely resolve their conflicts and plot in a single, sweeping chapter that encompasses everything that you possibly would like to know about with each and every character afterwards. Usually, classics end in such a way that give you pause after reading the last sentence of the last paragraph, and lets you consider the implications of the hundreds of pages that youve just read before. What does this mean? No happily ever after endings, no trite endings like joining the aquatics team had truly made me a new person. Some good things to consider though, are: offering the reader something to think about (doesnt have to be in the form of a direct question) or a tie-back to your beginning narrative (the second part of the story in your intro, for example I tend to utilize this pretty often drawing the reader back to the scene Ive painted in the beginning). Avoid unnecessary puns or wordplay, moralizing statements (I have truly discovered the meaning of courage), and lame witty comments at all cost, although for some odd reason Ive read dozens and dozens of SAT essays that end like this (through grading the exams for the SAT Prep program I direct). 4. Making great yogurt takes time. Did you know that because frozen yogurt melts and freezes much slower than ice cream because yogurt has a higher heat of fusion than milk? (!!! I was amazed when I discovered this) Take your time when you write your essay. Your essay should never be churned out hours before the application deadline in a desperate struggle to complete your application (although I was guilty of that for one essay). A well-written essay takes time to distill in the back of your mind, and cant be forced out by hours of sitting in front of Microsoft Word. Something I like to do when I have to write an essay is that Ill actually Scotch-tape the prompt on top of my desk as soon as its assigned, and just leave it there until I begin writing my essay. I also try to remember the gist of the prompt, and think about possible approaches and content during the down-times of my day (waiting for the bus, being bored in lecture, shopping at the supermarketetc.). Note that this kind of thinking isnt like okay-Im-going-to-sit-down-now-and-only-think-about-the-essay kind of thinking, but rather an ongoing process in the back of your mind. If you get used to thinking like this, you just automatically begin to process things in your mind all the time without meaning to do them. For example, my lead to the Stanford essay came to me when I was showering; Caltech, when I was walking to a convenience store. Now, if I have a particularly pestering pset question that eludes my attempts at trying to rationalize it, Ill store it in that thinking compartment i n the back of my brain and chances are Ill discover a new lead to doing the problem at some random time during the day. This is why a good essay takes time. Just like making good yogurt takes time for all the bacteria to happily multiply in warm milk. A brute-forced essay, like its counterpart in mathematical proofs, should be the last resort, simply because there is no elegance to it. Therefore, if you havent started thinking about your Regular Action essays, start now! You will thank yourself later :) 5. One word Passion. When it comes to writing to college essay, I think it really boils down to one word. Passion. The essay should almost be an extension of yourself what you like to do, your dreams, and what defined you as a person through high school. Speak to the audience. Paint a picture in words. Share with them what you really loved in high school, your ups and your downs what defines your life. I look at the college essay and I feel like its the only expressive part to the whole application that you get (well, aside from the interview). Its the only opportunity where you would be able to share with your readers a slice of your life away from mundane test scores, GPA, and lists of activities. Why not capitalize on this opportunity and really try hard to present who you really are? Write from your heart better yet, write with the energy and drive that is uniquely yours (I would write, write with your soul but I thought that sounded too cheesy. =p) FAQ that doesnt really fit anywhere else: Should I get my teachers/friends to proofread the essay? For my very first college essay, I asked two teachers to revise it for me, since it was omg-this-is-my-first-essay! Although I was grateful for the work of my teachers, my essay turned into 13 rewrites and a final product that sounded nearly nothing like me. After submitting that essay for my Early Decision school, I quickly trashed it and proceeded to write the ensuing Regular Actions completely from scratch. Upon finishing an essay, I usually proofread the completed essay 10 times over the course of three days or so (you shouldnt proofread the essay all in one sitting, since your tired brain probably will be fried and you will just end up skimming through the same mistakes). And thats it! Thus, I think its all up to you. Try asking an adult to read it and see what they feel, although I definitely do not think that you must have had an adult read it to make it a good essay. At times, you risk losing your original voice from over-editing. What about the essay prompts? I addressed the explanations above generally to the prompt of Tell us about an experience that shaped who you are or one of MITs essay prompts (Tell us about the world that you came from.). However, one important thing is to pay attention to the prompts of your college essays. Some colleges are very free and you can pretty much attach anything you want (when I applied Columbia and Harvard), while others are tailored and you have to answer their questions (Stanford, Caltech). If they ask for a specific response, be sure to address the prompt! (this is also the reason why I wrote so many different essays to each individual school). Word count? This is the old argument that I feel like no one can really address with the exception of the adcoms who would actually be reading your essays. I would go with the aged wisdom of following the instructions on the application essay. If they specifically ask you not to overdo it (like MIT), keeping it around 500 words seem reasonable. If they dont specify a word limit, then exercise your best judgment. Chances are that you should always be able to slim down your essay though. If its really hard determining how much fluff you have in your essay, actually go through the entirely essay sentence by sentence and ask yourself, what is the connection of this sentence to the rest of the essay? do I really need it? Can you post your essay? In short, no. Be creative! I dont understand why people need sample essays while they are applying to college since the application essay should be completely and originally yours. How can you tailor someones dreams and writing styles to fit your own voice? Great links? Other questions? I thought that the College Boards guide to writing a good essay is really well-written. Something else that I forgot to mention above but College Board does is this! Dont Write a Resume Dont include information that is found elsewhere in the application. Your essay will end up sounding like an autobiography, travelogue, or laundry list. Yawn. Also, feel free to leave a message if you have other questions about the essay. Finally, what does this entry have to do with froyo? Nothing really. I really wanted to write a blog on how to write the essay but I had to use froyo to lure you in (if youre still reading this very, very lengthy blog at this point). To compensate, I guess Ill leave you with some visual icy goodness. =p On a side note, the bloggers are all getting together for froyo tomorrow! :)

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Ethical Challenge - 619 Words

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Moons of Our Solar System Free Essays

string(91) " of consumers were equally classified as refusing or accepting genetically modified foods\." â€Å"Genetically modified (GM) foods are food items that have had their DNA changed through genetic engineering. † (Mavis 2008). As the population of the world has continued to grow, the supply pressure of food has become more and more significant. We will write a custom essay sample on Moons of Our Solar System or any similar topic only for you Order Now With the development of Genetically Modified biotechnology, GM Foods have been come into our daily lives. Though GM foods can help to improve the quality of life, there are risks to complete trust in GM foods. What’s more important, a part of consumers still have doubts about the understanding towards GM food. The question† What attitudes does consumers have on purchasing genetically modified food? † is meaningful because that the issue about GM foods is becoming increasingly controversial. The controversies towards GM foods generally focus on environmental ethics, food security, poverty alleviation and environmental conservation. As customers are divided on their relative importance, some supporters claim that the GM technology can solve the problem of food crisis and poverty. They also consider that GM foods are beneficial to environment such as they can protect soil and water. However, opponents think that GM foods should have some potential threat to human health and they violate the rules of nature by mixing genes among different species. The purpose of this research is to gain a deep understand about the consumers’ attitudes towards purchasing GM foods and find out if most of consumers can accept GM foods. (Hutchison, 2004) Literature review In the last few years, many articles on the consumers’ attitudes toward GM food have appeared. There is a concise review of existing literature that evaluates consumers’ attitudes as following. Most of the information on European attitudes comes from a journal by Bredahl, Grunert, and Scholderer (2003). The article focuses on posted and answered four questions on European consumers’ attitudes towards the use of GM food. These four questions are: (1) how negative are consumer attitudes to the event â€Å"GM technology applied in food production†? (2) How do these negative attitudes affect the preference of consumer for GM products? (3) How deeply does these attitudes rooted in customers’ opinion? 4) Will the new information and experience change the customers’ attitudes? Bredahl, Grunert, and Scholderer (2003) believe that these four questions are central for understanding the consumers’ attitudes about GM food. The article use some tables to evaluate the consumers’ attitudes about genetic modification in food production in seven European countries which are the UK, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway , Italy and Sweden. The data shows that most of the customer have negative attitude towards GM food, the average support for GM foods is quite low. The national differences can also be showed through the table: the attitude is most positive in Italy, and is most negative in Germany and the Scandinavian countries, while Finland and the UK in a middle position. And the article also showed some other surveys to support this result, for example, the Eurobarometer surveys, which is a most well know one, have also shown that most of consumers do not like GM foods (Frewer Shepherd, 1995 and Durant, Bauer Gaskell, 1998European Commission, 1997, European Commission, 2000,) For the question how these negative attitudes affect the preference of consumer for GM foods, Bredahl, Grunert, and Scholderer (2003) have design a research about yoghurt. In general, consumers prefer the low-Fat yoghurt, but the yoghurt will become non-attractive consistency if they produced based on skimmed milk. Though using additives can improve this problem, many consumers don’t like additives. However, by using GM technology, the yoghurt can be enough consistency, fat-free and no additives. It provided a good basis for the consumer preferences. In the research, consumers inspected the three products which are normal yoghurt, additives yoghurt and labeled GM yoghurt and rank them according to preference. And they must explain the reason for the ranking. The result showed that most of consumer rank GM yoghurt to last choice. And the common reasons are that the GM technology is not familiar and not trustworthy, they don’t know if the product is healthy, and it harms nature. The conclusion is explicit: the attitude to GM food has a strong influence on the preference of consumers. The third question and the last question were researched in another study. Respondents were asked to take part in a taste test of eight cheeses. Two weeks later, they participated in another taste test which only provides two kinds of cheese. One cheese was the same taste as the one which obtain the highest preference in the first test and it was labeled â€Å"produced with genetically modified technology†; the other one was the some taste as the one which obtain a medium preference in the first test. The results showed that when the most popular cheese labeled genetically modified technology, the preference was reduced. So, the study shows the attitude on GM food is deeply rooted in consumers’ opinion and is not easily to change by experience. There are also some other important researches about consumers’ attitudes towards GM food. Hamstra (1995) evaluate the acceptance of consumers toward GM food through three studies of Dutch consumers. Product characteristics and consumer characteristics are included in these studies. In the first study, consumers participated in a face-to-face interview about their attitudes and willingness to buy nine different GM foods (Hamstra, 1991). Means-end chain theory was used in the second study to further research these aspects in some focus group discussions (Hamstra, 1993). The third study used the sample of consumers to evaluate the model which developed in the second study (Hamstra, 1995). As a result, the studies showed that perceived benefits have a greater impact on consumers’ attitudes than perceived risks and there is no link between attitudes and knowledge of the genetically modified technology. Kutznesof and Ritson (1996) investigated Irish and British consumers’ attitudes through focus group discussions. The results divided the consumers’ attitudes towards genetically modified foods into three types: â€Å"triers†, â€Å"undecided consumers† and â€Å"refusers’†. A large number of consumers were classified into the second group, and the rest of consumers were equally classified as refusing or accepting genetically modified foods. You read "Moons of Our Solar System" in category "Papers" Through the research, Kutznesof and Ritson (1996) found that there are some factors can increase the acceptability of genetically modified foods such as perceived consumer-related benefits, price consciousness, increased product quality (especially the taste), and increased purity of products. They also found that the acceptability of consumers depends on the types of genetically modified foods: the genetically modified technology used on vegetables, fruits and dairy products can be more acceptable than eggs and meat. Some studies have analyzed consumers’ attitudes towards GM foods at a more broadly level. The attitudes of consumers have been proved to be more positive towards applying genetically modified technology to plants than to human genetic material or animals. Frewer, Hedderley, Howard Shepherd, 1997) The study which completed by Cook and Moore (2002) indentifies the relative importance, nature and strength of influences on New Zealand consumers’ intentions towards purchasing genetically modified foods. The study used four methods to evaluate the consumers’ attitudes which are focus groups, the questionnaire, statistical methods and distribution. Results delivered questionnaires to 289 consumers and received 266. The respondents contain 171 f emales and 95 males. In the received questionnaires, 159 respondents had an intention or strong intention not to purchase GM foods, 27 respondents had an purchasing or a strong purchasing intention and 80 respondents had no intention to purchase GM foods. Through the analysis with â€Å"Ordered logit analysis† and â€Å"Marginal effects for the extended model† which related to self-identity, attitude, SN and PBC, Cook and Moore (2002) found that self-identity, attitude, SN and PBC can provide a positively influence on consumers’ attitude towards purchasing GM food. Males may more easily to feel in control over purchasing the food than females, on the contrary, females may easily to feel in control over not purchasing the genetically modified food. In addition, other related research shown that the New Zealand public may be slightly less against with purchasing GM food. A national survey about farmers’ attitudes found that 49% farmers not willing to purchase GM food and 12% farmers had positive attitudes to purchase (Cook et al. , 2000). Sallie and Michael, B (2004) choice modeling methods to analyze in what conditions the Australian consumers are willing to purchase GM food, and they also discuss these preferences in the report. The results of the report suggest that if there has a discount on the consumers’ favorite food, they will have an intention to purchase the genetically modified foods. The report also showed that genetically modified technology which used on animals seems to be more unacceptable to respondents than that use on plants, especially among female respondents. In addition, another condition which can influence the consumers’ attitudes for a certain type of food is age of the consumer; the results found that older people generally more accept of genetically modified technology than younger people. In conclusion, the above literature shows that most consumers have the negative attitudes towards purchasing genetically modified foods, and these negative attitudes are not easy to change that can affect the preference of consumers. Furthermore, some conditions such as age and sex of consumers, the species that be applied with GM technology and the discount of genetically modified foods can also effect the consumers’ attitudes. Methodology: The main method of this research is questionnaire which contains online questionnaire and a paper-based survey questionnaire. And the responds assumed to be truthfully. The online questionnaire will be designed on the official websites of large-scale supermarkets. And the links of questionnaire should also be sent to the email of the consumers who are the VIP or the regular consumer of these supermarkets. In addition, the questionnaire will not exceed 8 minutes. The questionnaire should contain open-ended questions and close-ended questions. The sample open-ended questions should be â€Å"Do you have a positive attitude or negative attitude towards purchasing genetically modified foods? Why? † and â€Å"How you access the knowledge about genetically modified technology†. On the other hand, the close-ended question must contain the sex and the age level of the respondents, the questions should be designed like â€Å"I have a intention to purchase foods produced using genetically modified technology (very strongly disagree, disagree, agree or very strongly agree)† â€Å"what do you think your family members’ or friends’ opinion would be when you purchasing genetically modified foods? (Extremely unfavorable, unfavorable, favorable or extremely favorable)† â€Å"Do you think your family members’ or friends’ opinion will change your attitudes towards purchasing genetically modified foods? Very strongly disagree, disagree, agree, or very strongly agree)†. These three questions are very important to understand the consumers’ attitudes towards purchasing genetically modified foods. The advantage of online questionnaire is that it is a less expensive way to investigate more people, and it can also invest igate the people who are at a far distance. Furthermore, the questionnaire can be quickly done and anonymity ensures more valuable responses. But there are also some drawbacks about online questionnaire that must be foreseen. For example, in general, the responds to online questionnaire are from younger people and the response rate should be limited because that not everyone can access to the website. All these conditions should be considered on the result of research. The paper-based survey questionnaire will be sent to the consumers in supermarkets. In order to attract the consumers, the people who accept investigate can get a small gift as an incentive that can increase the participate rate. The age of participate range should between twenties and sixties. And the details of paper questionnaire may be same as the online questionnaire. The drawback of paper-based survey is that poor handwriting may be appeared on the space of open-ended question and some of them cannot be identified accurately. Secondary research is also needed in order to assist the evaluation about results of questionnaire survey. The secondary sources can be found in three areas: sales report of a well-known company which produces genetically modified foods, customer database of this company and primary data. Newspapers, previous research reports, journal content, and government statistics could provide the primary data to secondary. The limitations of secondary research should also be considered during the process of research. For example, some secondary data may not be helpful to the research evaluation because that some data can be vague and general. On the other hand, the source of data must be checked in order to ensure the data is accurate. Moreover, the data maybe out of date. At last, the results of questionnaire and secondary research should be collect together to evaluate the respondents’ attitudes toward purchasing genetically modified foods and calculate if most of consumers can accept GM food. Conclusion: There should be two results of this research; one result is that most of consumers can accept genetically modified foods. It means as genetically modified technology becoming increasingly more oriented lifestyle, the consumers are increasingly familiar with the technology about genetically modified foods, more and more people can trust in GM food. The other result is that most of consumers cannot accept genetically modified foods, and the questionnaire can affect the reasons. It means people still have doubts about the safety and technology of genetically modified food. Genetically modified food is new technology products, though it still exist some problems, but with the development of science and technology, it will be more and more perfect. 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