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I'm a junior at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and the biggest question I get is: "What's the difference between Cal Poly and a regular UC?" The answer is simple: "Learn by doing." It's not just a slogan—it's actually how classes work. Hands-on from day one. In my engineering classes, we're not just...

I would literally write "sentence 1, sentence 2, sentence 3" in my head while writing and it made my essays so robotic and boring. My friend who's a writing tutor finally sat me down and was like "you're asking the wrong question." Instead of how many sentences are in an essay she said ask "how...

I lost my mom two years ago. Cancer. I've been to therapy, I've talked about it, I've done all the "right" things. But I still couldn't read or watch anything about terminal illness without completely falling apart. Until Tatiana Schlossberg's essay. And I don't fully understand why, but it...

I grew up twenty minutes from the beach in San Diego. Like, literally the Pacific Ocean has been my backyard my entire life. 🌊 I've taken it for granted in ways I'm only now realizing—the sound of waves when I fall asleep with my window open, the way the fog burns off by noon, the smell of salt...

So my topic is not glamorous at all. I work at a grocery store. I stock shelves. I deal with rude customers. I clean up weird spills. And my entire common app essay is just... that. It's about the rhythm of the night shift, the strange community of overnight stockers who become your second...

Okay story time and it's embarrassing but maybe someone will learn from my mistakes. 🫣 Last year I had a political science paper due and I was SO short on words. Like 1000 words required, I had 650, and it was 4am. Not my finest hour. In my desperation, I became an aggressive essay extender...

I was at a coffee shop and this older guy saw my textbook and asked about it. And instead of my usual fumbling, I pointed at the complicated espresso machine and said "you see all those buttons? If the instructions for using them are confusing, customers get frustrated and the baristas waste...

This is probably silly, but it's keeping me up at night. I wrote a 10-page paper on Victorian literature. All the ideas, arguments, and structure are mine. But, I’ll admit, I used an AI tool to suggest synonyms for words I overused, like "depicted" or "illustrates." Now I'm terrified that my...

I wanted to share my story because I think it's a perspective we don't hear often. I'm a university student with pretty significant dyslexia. Reading and writing are genuinely exhausting for me. I have great ideas, and I understand the material, but getting them from my brain onto the page in a...