by Cara Kalf | Oct 15, 2021 | Cara, College Application Tips, college essay tips
How To Make Your Essay Longer When you speak with a relative you rarely see, it’s easy to feel like you have nothing to say to them. On the other hand, you can be so long at lunch talking to your best friend that you’re late to your next class—when you just saw them...
by Cara Kalf | Sep 30, 2021 | Cara, College Application Tips, college essay tips
Trust Your Life Story: Finding the Point of Your Essay Of the many cool experiences Northwestern University afforded me, one of the coolest was the opportunity to serve as assistant stage manager on a traveling children’s theater production. Before, during and...
by Cara Kalf | Aug 30, 2021 | Cara, college essay tips
The further away you are, the more we look the same. That sounds like some sort of good news for peaceniks, but what it really is—is super-inconvenient for the high-school senior trying to stand out. Students are often led to believe that standing out in the...
by Cara Kalf | Dec 15, 2020 | Cara, College Essay Examples, college essay tips
Holiday Baking: Mug Cake vs. Petit Four How is an essay like a pastry? Neither should be made in the microwave. This year, I discovered there is such thing as a Mug Brownie. You can even buy one-step “mug brownie mix” packets, but even from scratch, they aren’t...
by Cara Kalf | Jun 15, 2020 | Cara, College Essay, college essay tips
How Do I Start My College Essays? It goes without saying that the first thing you need to do to start your college essays is—to start. But nothing helps a procrastinator to procrastinate like an unclear expectation. The vague language of the seven Common App prompts...
