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On October 17 2013 01:18 Ettick wrote:
I don't generally advocate writing for a specific audience, but this is one of the cases where that's necessary.
Essentially, don't write about anything that a middle aged woman won't like and you're fine.
If you can make playing SC2 sound interesting to a middle aged woman, go ahead and write your essay about that.
Most essay readers are younger people who only hold the job for a short time before moving on to something bigger.
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Dude, think about how many essays the admissions board has to read. Seriously, out of all of the thousands you are probably the only one who will write about sc or video games. That is a HUGE advantage. You don't want to bore them to death with the usual " i work hard, am good person, like to learn" crap. When they read your essay they want to see
1) how well can you write
2) your personality/character
3) how you can benefit the school
Your job is to convey your LOVE and PASSION about something you care about, how that changed you as a person and finally what you can offer to the school. I did this with chess many years ago, basically just wrote a story about a specific match I played, and even though I had a sub par gpa and average SAT, I got accepted to my reach school no problems.The purpose of the essay is to translate your personality in an authentic way, so do it!
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most ppl think videogames are useles/waste of time. you might want to convey why this is wrong instead of ''bragging'' ( yo im top 200 of something you didnt even know existed 5 mins ago ---- its not me being mean, just try to figure a woman or an older person who never played video games reading your paper...)
and THEN tell them that instead of doing sudoku like a fag you macro like a boss, multitask like a beast and try you best to learn from your errors to make sure you dont fall for the same thing twice.
i think this would be a better way to portray yourself and not sound like a nerd whos afraid of the sun.
In this case I dont think its about being the best of the best, its about showing you are passionate, willing to commit yourself and you are always eager for more knowledge.
my 2 cents, glhf.
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Nah you need to differentiate between your gm being a goal that you achieved, and make it explicit it was not just a video game addiction.
It is an achievement and you need to play it like one. You can touch on the social perception of gaming as a barrier to your goal. That, and balancing school work is a lot of hard work which you would need to display.
If you talk about e sports, you need to portray the culture and community that exists with in it. How many people play/ it's growth in the last 10 years, how you came to be a part of that community.
Like I said, you can write about Starcraft, but your focus point is not the game, it's your achievement within it and how hard you worked to achieve your goal. You definitely need create the context so the reader doesn't jump to conclusions. And don't be afraid to be passionate in your writing about the game, and show the achievement was a big validation of hard work = success
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On October 17 2013 08:52 biology]major wrote:
Dude, think about how many essays the admissions board has to read. Seriously, out of all of the thousands you are probably the only one who will write about sc or video games.
already addressed this, this is false lol
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On October 17 2013 11:02 Vegetarian Wolf wrote:Show nested quote +On October 17 2013 08:52 biology]major wrote:
Dude, think about how many essays the admissions board has to read. Seriously, out of all of the thousands you are probably the only one who will write about sc or video games. already addressed this, this is false lol
But he's one of the few who have made it to grandmaster! So that must carry some uniqueness. I don't know I think its possible he could turn it into something useful; if you frame this game as a legitimate esport requiring training and quick thinking, I wouldn't discount it. Now if it was a generic essay about that awesome game you had in league of legends where you killed three heroes at once with some crazy skills, probably leave that out as its just not that meaningful.
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just write it if u want to write it
99.9% of people outside of tl/internet don't care about sc2/esports in general and ur essay will not change that, so make sure u focus less on the esports aspect of it and more on the personal growth/life lesson part
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EPT
