Georgia tech application - Describe a day in your life

an exhausting but satisfying day

WROOF! "...noooo..." WROOF-WROOF!!! Its 4-AM, dark, cold, and sitting on my chest is an 80-pound furball demanding a walk. "FINE!". Longboard wheels grinding against the pavement, I chase him down neighborhood alleys; Kal-El's happiness makes every early morning feel special. Back home, I pour myself a bowl of cereal and groggily meander into the garage. I flick a switch: my half-built breadboard piano is ready for testing when...shoot! Loose cable, spilled cereal: catastrophe--the flood of electronic killing Captain-Crunch spreads across the desk. I lift the piano to save it when BOOM! A capacitor blows in my face! Not a good start. After cleaning, I work on my journals; I'm trying to explain the dot product visually, the goal is to get past the computation and into the real mathematics; the understanding. Time flies...scribbling away I catch a glimpse of my watch. "10-30?!?!" I stuff my electronic drumset into the car; I don't want to miss practice! Getting home, excited I turn on my desktop...yes! My neural-net classified the images! Just need to tweak it a little...The sun has finally gone down. Tennis shoes, headphones, and me and Kal-El sprint to the park, wishing we were in a forest. After dinner, I pull out my math-journal once more. I've thought about it all day, and after about an hour, I leap up with joy. I've done it; my explanation makes intuitive sense! Satisfied, I say goodnight to my family, and read some Hofstadter before collapsing, exhausted, into bed.

Thanks!

Joshua, the narration you have in this essay is highly creative to the point of disbelief. This sounds more like the script for a movie rather than realistic portrayal of the day in the life of a student. Try to be more normal sounding. Don't go for exaggerated events and accomplishments that may not be part of your normal day. The essay is after all titled "Describe a day in your life." This refers to a normal day when nothing special is happening. Who are you when you are having just a normal day, not wanting to accomplish anything or stand out in any way? How do you spend your day when you are not trying to over impress the reviewer? Just talk about a typical day in the life of a teenager, nothing super extra ordinary as you try to depict here.

Tell the story without trying to constantly give the reviewer a heart attack. The harder you try to impress him, the more he won't believe what you have to say because your statement is bordering on the fantastic at this point. Just be normal. Don't try to write the comic book life of a super hero. Just be the alter ego, the normal human being who goes through life in a normal, sometimes almost uniform and boring manner. You can still have an exhausting but satisfying day just being a normal sounding person without the exaggerated presentations of your activities.

Lol Holt, that IS an actual day in my life lol I don't really have any friends
Thank you though! I still totally see your point, idk what to do...

Hi Joshua, if you are at a loss, why don't you try to write this essay from the normal day in the life of your family with a focus on your relationship with your parents, siblings, and the family dog? Talk about a typical weekend. How does it go? What is family time like? How do you bond with your siblings? Your parents? How do you make contact with them in the age of technology? What happens when you take Kal-el to the park? These are all normal, everyday occurrences that you can fall back on since you don't have any friends to speak of.

The reviewer doesn't care if you have friends or not. He just wants to get to know who you are beyond academic interests. How do you interact with people? Who are you close to in the family? You can talk about building relationships with your sibling, learning from your parents, and simply enjoying your down time with your dog. There are several ways to write this essay. You just need to figure out how to say it in an interesting way. Remember, you need to introduce who you are outside of the world of learning to the reviewer. That is all he is interested in learning about.