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  1. Philll

    William Carey: Small, private, Christian, and exactly what I needed. 🙏

    I'm a junior at William Carey University in Hattiesburg, and I don't see us mentioned much here. We're a private Christian university, so we're smaller than the big state schools, but that's kind of the point. Class sizes are tiny. Like, my largest class has 25 people. My smallest had 8. My...
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    My professor said there's no rule for how many sentences are in an essay

    I asked my comp professor yesterday about how many sentences are in an essay because I wanted a clear answer for once and she just smiled and said "however many it takes to make your argument" and I almost screamed. Like ma'am that is NOT helpful to my anxious brain!! She went on to explain...
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    Tatiana Schlossberg essay connects climate journalism to cancer research and it's brilliant

    I'm an environmental studies major and I've spent the last three years reading about climate change, ecological collapse, and the various ways humans are destroying the planet. It's honestly exhausting and depressing most days. So when I picked up Tatiana Schlossberg's essay in The New Yorker, I...
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    My Oklahoma University essay taught me i'm not leaving home, i'm carrying it with me

    I've been sitting on this for a few days and I just need to put it out there because maybe someone else feels this way. I'm from the Mississippi Delta. Like, the Delta. The place where the blues was born, where the soil is so black and rich it looks like charcoal, where every dirt road has a...
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    Is my common app essay too vulnerable?

    So I finally landed on a topic that feels genuine, but now I'm second-guessing everything. I wrote about the year my parents divorced and how I coped by becoming obsessive about baking sourdough bread. Like, I got deep into it. I talk about the science of the starter, the patience of the rise...
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    The 反问 method: my secret essay extender that actually improves arguments

    I'm gonna share a technique my high school English teacher taught me that has carried me through FOUR years of college writing. It's the best essay extender I've ever used and it actually makes your papers BETTER, not just longer. 🏆 It's called the反问 method (that's Chinese for "rhetorical...
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    What technical writing is doing for my confidence?

    I was never the "smart" kid. Average grades. Nothing special. But in this class, I'm good at something. Really good. The structured thinking makes sense to me. The user-centered approach clicks. My professor pulled me aside after last project and said my audience analysis was the best in the...
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    Quick question how to detect ai writing in college applications?

    Hi everyone! 👋 Just a quick post because I'm stressing a little (in a good way!) and I know this community has the best insights. I'm a senior in high school, and I've been asked by my school to help with a really cool project. The guidance counselors are running a workshop for underclassmen on...
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    Cheap essay writing service saved my GPA! A cautionary tale

    Alright, so I have a story that starts with a disaster and ends with a miracle. Last semester, I got hit by a really bad case of the flu – like, hospital-level bad. I missed two full weeks of classes, including the lead-up to a major midterm paper for my sociology class. I was literally typing...

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