The first essay anybody writes is for school. Same here. But the only examples I remember are the ones I wrote at the end, in my A-level exams. One compared Hitler to Stalin. Another, Martin Luther ...

To my surprise, the commentary went viral and was one of the Chronicle’s best performers of 2023. Readers weren’t shy about telling me what they thought. The responses varied: For every person who ...

Five years ago, I began my Common Application essay with the following sentence: “To quote Ferris Bueller, ‘Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it ...