Personal Statements
Irena SmithEssays about people, places, things, and domestic disorder
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 121 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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In a nutshell
During my sophomore year in college, a teaching assistant described my writing as wordy. He might have said "verbose” or “flowery.” This was the same teaching assistant who circled the word “disparate” and wrote “not a word” in the margin o...
Thank you for your attention to this matter
Hello, friends! The post I was planning to write this week didn’t materialize because all three of our kids were home, and it was chaotic, and then, just as they dispersed, a hot water pipe burst in our wall (in sympathy with the kids’ disp...
The horror
I’m not naming any names, but I’m being peer-pressured by several people to watch Widow’s Bay, a new Apple TV show about a New England town afflicted by a centuries-old curse. One of them said that she doesn’t love horror but made an except...
Grendel & me
In the late winter of my freshman year in college, when it was time to pick courses for spring quarter, I made a momentous decision. Without telling my parents, I signed up for English 10A, which was the first of three survey courses requir...
Book 3 in progress
Hi, hello, I have an announcement. I am writing a third book. Because writing is the best and I love it and want to keep doing it for the rest of my life!
Writing is also the worst because every time I sit down to write anything, including...
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Essayist, college admissions veteran, devotee of breathless run-ons and parenthetical asides.
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