dayum ur talent or skill should be writing essays on a time crunch

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@@cesarrivas2295 community college 💀💀 i chose cs so it’s prob my gpa

Hi there! Abstract essays can work, but it's tricky. 350 words is not as much as one might think, and the mistake I see students make all the time in their drafts is overloading the metaphor or hook/intro, so that by the time they get to their meat/conclusion, they only have a paragraph of space left to land the story. So I'd suggest you try a draft by first setting a hard limit to how long your intro and abstract development/lines will be. I say start with 50/50. 50% abstract/development content, 50% of showing real actions. At the very least, make 50% of your essay showcase tangible examples and actions of your talent/skill and how you've cultivated it through specific experiences, how it's grown and help you to grow, and how you hope to continue to wield it or apply it to greater opportunities. Edit: Later, a more advanced strat would be to establish the metaphor very quickly in the first 2-3 sentences so that the metaphor is spread throughout the essay with phrases and single lines, but only in total word count take up 10-20% of the essay leaving the rest to be narrative details of your talent in action, and then follow through with breaking down that metaphor into specific pieces that allow you the chance to share examples of your talent. "I grew up traveling the x islands with my grandpa, where I learned the call of a Hooten Owl, whose hoots eerily reminded me of schoolground laughter. Like many others unaware of such a creature's existence, I was drawn to it, only to find the spectacle of noise to be a small brown blah of cute blah. I didn't know it at the time, but meeting Hootie (I named him) transformed not just my appreciation for nature's vast idiosyncratic creations, but also the notion that a single calling can ring throughout the forest and bring calm and composure to the land..." and then you go into how you emulated the same kind of talent. Here's an example of how you break it down in subsequent paragraphs. I googled Owls and found: binocular vision, binaural hearing. "Much like the Hooten Owl, I've learned to fine art of binaural hearing, to listen for cross-echos and the rustling crowd into the situations I face as the VP of Key Club. [Go into expanding upon that skillset.] You can at the end throw in a JRR Tolkien Twist: Despite all the similarities with flying birds you share and endeavor to be, there is one way you will never be a bird and will only be @-vuxuanmai-c, and that is... [give your final point about your talent and what you hope to use it for.]

@@CounselorJay omg, thank you for your reply! so helpful and informative