Hi everyone,
I am an international student who will apply RD to Harvard. I wanted to get a head start on my supplement for Harvard (which lets you pretty much write about anything) and decided to write on the philosophy of the absurd by Albert Camus. To put it in a few words, it refers to the human tendency to seek meaning in life and the inability to find any. When faced to the absurdist paradox, one must accept the absurd but revolt at the same time (I recommend reading Sisyphus' myth if you want to learn more). I really enjoy reading and writing about philosophy and I am planning to give examples of how I revolt against the things I find absurd in my every day life, but I am afraid my essay will not sound straight forward enough as it is dealing with very abstract concepts. Also, I am trying to make it sound less gloomy (since absurdism also deals with suicide) by inserting absurd yet funny situations as examples (I am introducing my essay with the dream I had where I was moon walking into the oval office wearing a T-shirt of teenage Nicolas Cage and found Genghis Khan breathing sriracha sauce; which I thought was completely absurd).
Is my example too insolent? Is the topic of my essay too dramatic/abstract?
I was also thinking of using this essay for UChicago's supplement, and rewrite it a little so it'd fit one of the prompts.
Any feed back is appreciated.
Thanks!!
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