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...essay??s attack on the children of the “American socioeconomic elite” rests on conjecture and not a single statement of fact other than an imperfect perception of general campus trends. It suggests that to predict someone’s morality and future conduct all we need to find out is how much money his or her daddy makes. This is just as inappropriate as the commonly held but false belief that Americans on welfare are lazy good-for-nothings looking for a taxpayer handout...
...Expos courses can look pretty exciting: Creating Monsters, Cities and Globalization, Travel and the Gods...But don’t be fooled. The point of Expos is to teach you to write an academic essay??not to teach you about the course’s subject matter. Suppose your Expos class is nominally about Kangaroos and the experience of growing up in a pouch. You will not actually be taking a class about the kangaroos themselves. You will be enrolling in a class teaching you how to write an essay about kangaroos. And I think...
...personal statement was 500 words of gushed, schmaltzier-than-Kenny G prose—I think, God help me, that I called performing “electric” and music “the highest means of human expression.” (Or something; that essay??s been lost to the ages, and if the admissions office has a copy, I’d like a word, thanks...
When I received my readers’ comments on my thesis last month, they both praised the essay??s “creativity,” while informing me, in very polite terms, that it lacked the “rigor” that defines academic scholarship. I did not find this evaluation surprising. But seeing it written down alongside a grade made me question whether I had drifted through my degree without ever becoming “educated” in some essential sense. Had I, I wondered, somehow failed to obtain what Harvard?...
...don’t want to be a stickler, but I do believe that tailoring an essay??s length to the assignment is a skill in itself,” she said. “It’s good for all of us to keep in mind the ways technology affects our work...