Word: essayed
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...neither beautiful enough to be a beauty nor geeky enough to be a geek. So much for national fame; I couldn’t even make it onto FM’s Fifteen Hottest Freshmen list. As unique as I made myself seem in my college admissions essay, I was way too normal to be famous. And the competition was steep. Tons of students were striving for the same campus-wide fame I was, from UC presidential candidates to world record holders to that kid who wore shorts all winter. Every time I tried to do something absolutely crazy, some...
...admissions office, the same message has been repeated to prospective students for years. It is a message that I wrote in my college essay four years ago, but I never fully understood until I came through the Harvard experience: Don’t be afraid to experience failure...
...That year, O’Reilly, Steinem, and others co-founded Ms. Magazine, a feminist publication. O’Reilly’s essay “Click! The Housewife’s Moment of Truth” was the cover story of the first issue...
...Reilly said she considers the essay her “contribution to the revolution,” and “Click!” marked one of her first works in a career of writing and public activism devoted to women’s rights...
...question his academic focus after receiving an “A” in a course taught by comparative literature professor Harry T. Levin ’33, though he had attended only two lectures. After he was able to rely on generic literary terms to write an exam essay on a book he had not read, Sheehan said he decided it was time for something more challenging...