Evan Burger

A defense of the examined life

Without questioning the basic tenets of your life, you run the dire risk of being completely mistaken about the nature of the universe and yourself.

Admit it: admissions essays from the class of 2013

For some of us, it was a crowning achievement, the single piece of writing we’re still most proud of. For others of us, it was juvenile and shameless, 500 words of self-indulgence that are too agonizingly laughable to reread.

Admissions essay: Evan Burger

Put simply, I was forever changed by the concepts elucidated in Walden. I must have heard of the book before, but I never expected what I discovered inside.