Shai Chester

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: Shai Chester

True, my mental image of Dylan did not correlate to the man I had heard in concert, but that did not necessarily make my impression of him meaningless.