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Natasha Marsalli

I lose

November 5, 2005 at 7:43 PM

Oooooh, I am so MAD!
I submitted an essay on Why I love Math for a scholarship, and when I saw the results, I was positively dumbfounded; the winner didn't even write on the assigned topic (why you love math)! She included fragments, had no thesis statement that was supported, and just talked about a math competition.
No offense to whoever wrote it, but formal writing should never be done that way.
So now I'm ticked that I lost to something like that.

I'm going to try a poetry scholarship now.
I figure I can just write something totally soppy and weird and un-like me, and I'll win something.
I already have some ideas.

Non of this has anything to do with violin.
I don't know why I'm even writing about it.
I'm just mad and scared that I won't be able to get money for college.
That's a really scary thought.

From Sydney Menees
Posted on November 5, 2005 at 10:22 PM
Submit my violin poem, haha. I posted it one entry ago...
From Danielle Gauthier
Posted on November 6, 2005 at 4:10 PM
Just write something that confuses the heck out of you, and someone will call it brilliant and pretend to get it. Hopefully, it will be the judges.

eg: what does eg mean?
is it a noun or a verb?
why do I care?

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