Is your Common App too common? Is your personal essay too essay and not enough person? Do you want your essay to be as awesome as you are?!* Come join us as we unravel the mysteries of college essay. We will discuss sample essays, work through common prompts and guide you on your way to enlightenment. * Yes, you do.

Is your Common App too common? Is your personal essay too essay and not enough person? Do you want your essay to be as awesome as you are?! Bring your essay(s) and come workshop with us! We'll work together to make sure your writing is so awesome that admissions officers around the world will go blind from overexposure to pure awesomeness!

Want to have fun with words? We'll do freewrites, construct found poetry, write the shortest short stories we can imagine (Hemmingway wrote a famous one of just six words!), create fine odes and love letters to our ephemeral classmates, and play Balderdash and the wonderful Paper Folding Game.