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FAQs on writing with us

By Sara Nolan | May 13, 2015 | 0
Filed Under: Integrity, Questions, Uncategorized

FAQs you wanted to ask (but didn’t) on writing with us at Essay Intensive’s Summer Intensive Q: I see you guys meditate in your writing intensives.  That’s a little weird.  Do you have to be enlightened to take an Essay Intensive workshop? A: No.  But wouldn’t enlightenment be a great side-effect of writing a successful Continue Reading …

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Drumroll for Common Application College Essay Prompts 2016-2017

By Sara Nolan | April 1, 2015 | 0
Filed Under: Questions, Stories, Uncategorized, Writing Tips

The Common Application Essay Prompts were revised in 2015 to reflect a universal truth of meaningful conversation: ask a better question, get a better answer. If you’re ready to start writing, and know you want our guidance, holler over here! We’ll get right back to you with heart, humor, and hard questions–and we really want to know Continue Reading …

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Coming & Going, A Lizard Death

By Sara Nolan | February 9, 2015 | 0
Filed Under: Destiny, State of Mind, Uncategorized, Wisdom

Today, to mix it up, I wrote my own personal essay– no more than 650 words (the magic number).  You can decide if this passes muster as a personal statement. While you read, play the all-powerful admissions officer, not the humble applicant.  What, if anything, do you learn about the essay’s writer?  What, if you had Continue Reading …

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Being Somebody

By Sara Nolan | January 26, 2015 | 0
Filed Under: Integrity, State of Mind, Teachers, Uncategorized, Wisdom

Strain does not equal gain Feel like you’re straining to look like Somebody Special in your college essay?  Are you “Being somebody” in your writing that feels removed from the truth– and rubs (even you) wrong? I am always looking to help students find ways to claim who they are in their work. Nonetheless, I did Continue Reading …

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Coming from Love

By Sara Nolan | January 16, 2015 | 0
Filed Under: Integrity, State of Mind, Uncategorized, Wisdom

Love was a great teacher for me this year.  Love insisted on many a mini-essay in her over-used, under-understood name.  Here is what I learned. My sister had her first baby this November, and I was with her for the 26-hours of unrelenting labor. If you think writing your college essay is hard, try delivering an Continue Reading …

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Getting Everything You Want

By Sara Nolan | January 7, 2015 | 0
Filed Under: Destiny, Integrity, State of Mind, Teachers, Uncategorized

Rick Benjamin, my mentor, beloved friend, and current poet laureate of Rhode Island, gets everything he wants.  But that’s because what he wants is to circulate the wisdom that words, and maybe words alone, can carry.  His preferred medium is poetry, which calls words back to their sharpened purpose.  In the everyday, words are such Continue Reading …

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