Out of all of the college essays you've written so far, which was your favorite and what did you write about?

Caltech supplemental where they asked me what I liked about the school besides research opportunity and academics (or something like that.)

After about 3 months of applications and about 4 previous private school supplementals all written over my last winter break of my high school years, I went completely fucking mental and wrote the single biggest burn essay about a school that's ever existed, filled with all the obscenities of a stereotypical game of CoD.

I literally poked fun at everything regarding the school. How it doesn't used its own fucking acronym. How barely a percentage of any student applicant legitimately cares about research over looking for work opportunity and networking opportunity. How it has lame fucking CS-English courses that bastardizes the whole purpose of English fucking literature being an organic fucking process full of symbols and meaning instead of some machine-scanned toy to tear apart and mechanize like some soulless piece of shit.. How it's in Pasadena and not LA and. How it seemingly offers little to no serious job-development, career-focused education just like every other university in the fucking country and for some fucking reason prides itself on that. Etc.

Eventually, I went back, realized that all sounded stupid, and rewrote every single sentence in a way that made it sound like I liked everything I hated.

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