Essay Questions - What's Up With That?

I love writing, obviously.  Why the hell else would I be attempting to blog if I didn't? What gets me every time are essay questions.  I think essay questions are just as pointless as interview questions.  I'm sorry, God blessed me with dyslexia and I'm pretty sure the rise of spell check has left me an even worse speller.  It's not fun to answer those short essay questions.  I'd be in the Peace Corps or working in Chicago with AUSL if it had been!

We put a lot of thought into these three and four paragraph essays that you read through with such the fine toothed comb.  We look back after we sent them in, after our rejection letters start rolling in and all we find see that we forgot to put a period at the end of the second sentence on the intro.  Suddenly, to us it becomes clear why we never heard back from anywhere.

We are all human and to be human is to make ALL SORTS OF errors.

I'm (undiagnosed) dyslexic and it has only gotten worse over the years.  Things you say all the time don't look right on paper when you finally realize that the phonetics don't match up with the lettering.  Phrasing is different in our minds than when we finally sit down to let the thoughts flow.

I have so many friends with other learning disabilities: the boyf, yes boyf,  and family have all have ADD and its happy happy happy hyperactive cousin, my cousin is on the Autism spectrum and so many more of my friends are on adderall just to focus on getting their basic tasks done.  How does this leave time for me to fill out your online auto formed disabled app and get other things done?

I understand that the reasoning is to deter lazy people and congrats, you've definitely accomplished that but at the same time, you deterred valid application with mental disabilities that find essay questions as time consuming as they do intimidating.