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Simone   
Oct 27, 2009
Undergraduate / Why UChicago: Hogwarts in the Muggle world [7]

Firstly, this is a beautifully written paper. The intro is very effective; the image of a young girl reading late at night is not only a wonderful opening image, but shows your intelligence, creativity, and thirst for knowledge. Your eagerness to learn is what brought you to UChicago your Freshman year. Your mention of the "exemplary Department of Anthropology" tells the reader more of who you are now. One could infer that you will obtain a degree in Anthropology and travel all over the world, not just in books! (Not that there is anything wrong with the latter.) The line, "I cannot break out of this spell" is a good clencher. It informs us of your intention to finish out your degree at UChicago.

As I am unfamiliar with the assignment, this next suggestion might bring the essay over a specified word count. In order to make UChicago more alive to the reader, try to add sensory detail. Is there a specific smell you remember from your first visit, maybe one that was comforting or passion-filled? Also, try adding taste, touch, or sounds. Sight is covered well by the castle analogy, as many people are familiar with the image of Hogwarts. This helps to relate a place that may not be very well known to people (UChicago) with one that is quite recognizable, Hogwarts. The second paragraph borders on essay-speak. The addition of description will help with this. Can you add a larger context ripple? This could be conveyed through further information of your future after university or the school on a more global scale.

Overall, a wonderful essay. Thank you for sharing it!
Simone   
Oct 15, 2008
Poetry / Three Hovering Doormen--Four sonnets forming one poem [2]

In my English course we are studying Shakespeare. As a writing assignment, we are all supposed to write a poem using the meter and rhyme scheme of Iambic Pentameter. Our instructor says she doesn't mind it if the accents aren't metered.

This is my first attempt at writing sonnets, so any sort of feedback is much appreciated. Are there any stretched rhymes? Did I use language poetically? Is the content and vocabulary of advanced level?

Grief quietly slips into the next seat.
"I am back again," he needlessly sneers.
My weary, sorrow-filled eyes are his meat.
His poisonous fingers stop my scared ears.

I urgently glance for a leaving bus.
Hollow footsteps echo through the station.
"Even the wet cement knows it's just us."
My stomach churns in anticipation.

Silence slices fear through smothering air.
Dark and heavy iron gates creak and roar.
Wind fiercely winds up my strangling hair.
Anguish is an irrational downpour.

"I'll see you at home," Grief sizzles again.
"I am one of three hovering doormen."

Loneliness is column-like, still and gray.
A graceful tear slides down her trembling side.
Each bead of moisture is filled with dismay.
Tender tears slap hard concrete, pain I hide.

Lonesomeness twinges in my broken heart.
She knowingly stands there in solitude.
She whispers, "Is this tearing you apart?"
A cello intones a mournful etude.

While music hangs, Loneliness sobs a stream.
Standing on the bench, it begins to quake.
This incessant wailing was all a scheme.
The river has now flowed into a lake.

Loneliness' tear-pool rises 'round her.
And she quickly drowns in her painful whimper.

Depression slowly creeps up behind me.
His dark brown hands crawl down my anxious neck.
He heaves my soul from my kundalini.
At last, a small bus arrives, a far speck.

I try to run, but Depression holds firm.
Exhaustion pervades my aching rib bones.
This pain is expected to last long-term.
The once-hopeful bus, now full, gasps and groans.

A nearby white rose promptly collapses.
My shaking fingers touch its naive petals.
Depression's black dreadlocks are ashes.
This dust scalds like the fire of devils.

Depression tugs a trowel from his case.
He cruelly digs a large void in my grace.

While struggling to stand, Grief reappears.
Depression whirls around to face brutal Grief.
These unfriendly visitors bring my tears.
Wind wildly shrieks in, and is not brief.

This torturous storm drenches me to the skin.
Waves of sorrow violently bellow.
I know it's only started to begin.
A melancholy note falls from the cello.

The tall gates are a penitentiary.
Looming high, its shadow is ominous.
My spirit is choking in misery.
This suffocating tempest is heinous.

Grief and Depression choose to reminisce.
They merely talk while I drown in this abyss.
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