We are incorrigible know-it-alls, so we recently launched a Quora. Now, whenever we have downtime from slavishly polishing the world’s best essays, we’re answering some of Quora users’ toughest questions with our trademark combination of reliable information and sarcastic style.
Recently, a Quora user asked, “How do you write a college essay about your family?” As we all come from broken, twisted homes – it’s probably the source of our hatred for authority and misfit status – this almost turned into a group therapy session here at the Unemployed Professor Offices and Writing Dungeon.
Of course, we had to pull that famous Tolstoy quote into the equation (after all, it’s the opening sentence of Anna Karenina, the best argument for improved train safety that ever existed), but after we had all established that we had equally unhappy families, we poured some whiskey and dove into a healthy, cathartic debate about how to write about your family in an essay. We deduced that this might be better in some classes than in others. For example, you probably do not want to write about your family in a genetics or abnormal psych class (Or, more specifically, your family probably does not want you to write about them in those courses). We also thought about how to write about family, specifically, how to brainstorm effective sensory details, and how to write about family ethically.
Check out our full answer here. Consider upvoting it if you find it helpful!
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