It's a little after midnight, and I completed many of my goals for today. I got two verbal sets done (although one I received a terrible score on). I wrote 2 essays, one of each kind. Although 3/4 through the 1st one I more or less gave up because I was waaaay past the time limit and getting nowhere-fast. My second essay was complete trash too. I found where on the website it actually lists the two lists of 200 prompts that they choose from. I can practice my essays with them, but then I won't see any "good" examples. I'm still looking to read a lot of those because I think it will help, but I haven't found a wealth of them yet. I think getting ideas of good answers will actually help me more than even writing them, because I think I'm actually having a hard time envisioning the answers that they're looking for with some of the prompts. Like the one I did tonight: I ended up writing an essay that was a complete 180 from their example. Although yes, it's just an example and there are going to be an infinite number of possibilities, I don't think mine was even in the realm of them. I knew it was crap as I was writing it. I can't write a personal blog in less than 30 minutes - how the fuck am I supposed to write a 5 paragraph essay? Furthermore, as I'm reading so much of the advice for these essays, it's evident how much these things are just formulaic and full of shit (one site even suggested that it was good to memorize several quotes that could be broadly applied, because quotes are always good. duh). This approach might lead me to be more positive about it - if only I thought I could get the formula down in 20 days, I'm feeling so doubtful right now. And hateful of the whole system.
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