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[fredericks]

The good thing about writing an 100 word max "essay" for a scholarship - 100 words is not a lot to work with.

The bad thing about writing an 100 word max "essay" for a scholarship - 100 words is not a lot to work with.

I don't do drabble for a reason, dammit.

*
That complaint right there? 56 words or so. Crap.

Edit -

One hundred words is not a lot for an essay; that's good and bad.

14 words but horrible English. Go me!

Comments

[living-kindness.livejournal.com]

A one hundred word essay has its ups and downs.

10 words.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

You don't win. I make the rules here. Welcome to my dictatorship! Bwah-ha-ha!

[living-kindness.livejournal.com]

*sobs*

[darker-one.livejournal.com]

100 words? That's a ridiculously small essay. What do they want from you that can be said in 100 words or less? You said it's for a scholarship, so how about:

"I would like you to give me money. I deserve to have your money. In conclusion, please give me money. Thank you."

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

You're missing the key word - need.
"I need money. Thx."
I wonder if you get extra points if you use the least words. Oh well.

Finished all the applications and I'm happy with my mad short sentence writing skillz. Word up. Or whatever. Those bastards owe me money at this point, all the crap I've put up with from them.

I'm thinking they wanted a couple of sentences describing some things you do that are altruist or importantor or some crap. I mean, they flat out tell you working is impossible when you're in this program, and now they want you to have done something meaningful with your non-existent free time? Bastards, bastards I say.

[fallen-ophelia.livejournal.com]

Gee, one hundred words is not an essay for frick sakes it's a paragraph or two. I guess it makes it much less writing for you because you have very little time, also it takes very little time to critic it on their part. I don't think that I could do well with so little words, then again I'm not really a minimalist to start with so right from the start I’d be at an disadvantage. Well good luck on getting that scholarship that you are applying for! Well this is ninety-one words (now ninety-five) 8-]

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Nice! You seem to have a knack for it. I hope we weren't just supposed to list accolades because I have none related to nursing.
Thanks for the luck. :)

[fallen-ophelia.livejournal.com]

I guess you can say that I have a knack for eloquent BS. Well that's what I used to call my academic writing back in the day. I've been a bit worried that I lost this knack andI have delayed applying for university because I have to write one of the lovely paragraph or two type-thingies (as well as loads of other stuff) because I am applying for mature student entry (hee hee mature student still makes me laugh and be annoyed at the term at the same time) Then again, us creative/intelligent (slightly obessive and/or wierdly perfectionistic) people tend to be our one worst critics. *wonders to herself if that really makes sense, but decides to live it in for flavour*

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

*laughs* That was a lovely confused mess.

because I am applying for mature student entry (hee hee mature student still makes me laugh and be annoyed at the term at the same time)
Hee! Fine wine and aged cheese. Hmmm....cheese....

How is that going, anyway?

[fallen-ophelia.livejournal.com]

I missed the deadline for SFU because we found out at the last minute that DH's company is moving away from the area that I was about to apply for that community college. So the change of plans affects me enough that I have decided to apply for SFU instead. I trying to get my guide dog before I apply for school because if I am going to go to school with a big campus I'm going to need more than my cane to get around. At this moment we are still looking for my application, which is still missing in action *sigh* At this rate I'm never going to get to school.

[mrblue92.livejournal.com]

Hey... I stumbled on this particular post after browsing here (http://community.livejournal.com/addme25_and_up/) and was vaguely fascinated by the "one hundred word essay" concept. [And, of course, brevity/wit/yadda-yadda, challenged to best the "least words" mark: "I'm ambivalent about 100-word essays." Five. ;)]

The truly curious thing, however, is this: as it is a simple matter of fact that among the very wide variety of English speakers on this planet, there exist certain loquacious individuals (such as myself, perhaps--insofar as the written word is concerned at least) who have the unenviable ability (or curse) to construct long sentences which serve to illustrate an entire chain of thought, and thus such a person might find himself (or herself) unable to issue much more than an implied disapproval of the one hundred word essay concept before reaching the end of his or her first . . .

. . . sentence. [101]

Anyway, it amused me at one in the morning.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

*grin* And now I find myself mightily amused at ten in the morning.

Thanks for that.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Since I have your window open still do you mind weighing in on something for me: Add Me comms are sort of like shopping for friends, is that good or bad? I bring this up because I know I'm not on the front page so I'm assuming you browsed back a couple of pages and didn't like the selection. I'd think it's empowering for both parties, but then again I'm still wiping sleep out of my eyes so things aren't quite working properly.

[mrblue92.livejournal.com]

Well, first to clarify, you were actually on the front page when I checked last night--the very last entry. I assume your post was pushed off in the intervening hours. I'm wouldn't say I "didn't like the selection", per se, although it did have the somewhat unpleasant taste of a personals page. Not that there's anything necessarily *wrong* with that, you understand... it's just that whenever people start trying to sell themselves, things tend to get... what's the word I'm looking for? Artificial, but still somewhat representative of reality in a distorted way... I guess I mean that people have a tendency to make caricatures of themselves when painting verbal self-portraits.

As far as "friend shopping" goes... again, I don't think there's anything wrong with it, any more than one might "choose" to be friend with those people who've been introduced to one's life "more randomly". Frankly I'd argue that trolling for friends is really rather random anyway, except the intentions are just the tiniest bit clearer when one person says "I'm looking for friends" and another says "Hey you look interesting".

And besides that, I keep coming to the inevitable conclusion lately that free-will is just a nice illusion that helps most of us¹ stay sane--which suggests that since we were bound to have this conversation, there's really no shame in having conversations of the kind. Except, er, if you can't help but feel ashamed. ;)

¹ "Us", or "the humans" as I often prefer to refer to them these days. Sometimes "those crazy humans", "weirdos", "idiots", or "*sigh* people". Depends on the mood, really.