If you still think you can’t write an argumentative essay, think again. Remember the last time you convinced your roommate to get the pizza topping you like. Or that time you ranted on TikTok about ...

When Tatiana Schlossberg submitted an essay to The New Yorker, it had not been assigned or even expected. It was accepted ...

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The essay appears to have been written for an Introduction to Nuclear Energy class (PH241) that Christian McCaffrey took in ...

The personal essay is an essential component of your application. How compelling it is — or isn't — can make or break your acceptance.

Mo Marie Lauyanne Kouame, 18, dreams of being an aerospace engineer and building spacecraft. This fall, she applied to MIT, Princeton, and Columbia. For one college essay, she wrote about being ...

A graduate student instructor at the University of Oklahoma was placed on administrative leave after a student filed a discrimination complaint. The student, Samantha Fulnecky, claims she received a ...

Last week, we talked about the problem of overintroducing yourself—that exhausting habit of piling on credentials, experiences, and qualifications until your listener’s eyes glaze over. We explored ...

Write the name of a place (house, spot in nature, work, restaurant, etc.) at the top of your paper, and then do a stream-of-consciousness writing about that place and see what bubbles up. Pick a ...

Shortly after midnight on Thursday, Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as the mayor of New York City, to be followed later in the ...

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