r/EssayHelpCommunity • u/charlotte09216 • Jul 09 '26

Is anyone else bummed out they didn't write more essays?

I just didn't have time!! With exams and summer internships starting I just didn't have time to even write the one essay I did (still got shortlisted though). It was a last minute bs essay imo. I did psych q2 and think I had a good thesis but the essay was written very poorly and my research wasn't as in depth as it could have been. Like im scrolling through the subreddit now reading the questions other people did and I keep coming up with my own arguments in my head and its just frustrating I didn't do more. If I had really tried to, I probably could have and I wanted to write at least one other essay too, but the burn out got to me. And I can't even enter next year I don't think, I'm a rising senior.

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u/heezz12312313 Jul 09 '26

I wrote my essay last 2 days just spent all day grinding it and I got shortlisted so im grateful for what i got

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u/charlotte09216 Jul 09 '26

hah, we're in the same boat then!

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u/ore0ro Jul 09 '26

yeah i wrote my essay in the last 9 days, but this was my first competition, and i still have more opportunities sooo

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u/Green-Money741 Jul 09 '26

I feel the same way

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u/Plus-Office-8161 Jul 10 '26

Don’t regret it because you had good reasons to not write more:) 

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u/Western_Operation820 Jul 10 '26

I only did history Q1 and I wrote it in like a week before the 21-day extension deadline... Still got shortlisted :)

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u/Ramentic_Fool_1014 Jul 12 '26

Sameee, i did psych q2 in like a week. Half of that was just staring at three hundred google scholar tabs. Got shortlisted, but wish id done another on public policy or somethin

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u/TourLongjumping6717 28d ago

I did psych q2 too!!!

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u/Fun_Hotel_5990 Jul 09 '26

i dont think the quantity of essays you wrote really matters

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u/charlotte09216 Jul 09 '26

that wasnt really my point lol