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Wasn't there a case where the victim was found wandering in the streets by some neighbors and returned to the kidnapper?

Edit: It was Dahmer. Here's an article about it.

You're partial to the college essay because you're selling a book about it, and you make money telling people how to write one. Advising students to write "something important" is such a vague and mysterious starting point that you may as well not offer advice at all, because all you're doing is muddling an already muddled process. The fact is, no matter what you write, you have to hope you're lucky enough that whoever your reader is happens to like what you've written on that particular day. Give two readers on the same admissions board at the same school the same essay, and I guarantee you'll get two different rankings.

Basically what you're doing is selling a book on how to get rich, and the premise of the book is to write a book about how to get rich.

Here, for example, is an admission essay that got someone into the prestigious, top 10, Ivy league Columbia last year.

1. Well written?

   Since the onset of my tween years and perhaps even before that, I have constantly carried with me an insistent urge for nonconformity.

2. About himself? Well yes, in a masterbatory way, but no ones going to write their whole essay about someone else. What kind of advice is this?

3. Tell a story: the story of realizing it's ok to be a hipster.

4. Show personal growth:

   I have come to understand that a label such as "hipster" must never precede my own actual characteristics, and I can never let such a notion inform my identity by itself.

Wow, that's like so cool man.

Basically what I'm saying is, you have no idea what you're talking about. You're selling an idea, not advice, and you're leaving people worse off for it. Every applicant in the country somehow managed to write something before you came along, and every spot at every important university was taken. IF YOU'RE INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO DO WELL IN HIGHSCHOOL YOU'RE INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO WRITE AN ESSAY WITHOUT THIS MEANINGLESS ADVICE. Do you think you're somehow levelling things out with your vague nonsense?

The issue about an unfunded PhD being a bad idea is really dependent on the country your school is in.

Yes I really want an answer to this.

That's not even the bad part.

Artificial sweeteners, however, confuse our bodies and weaken the link in our brains between sweetness and calories. That, Hazuda says, can lead to weight gain and cravings for sweeter and sweeter treats.

So, drinking the stuff can make you crave sweets, so you eat more, so you gain weight. Yeah. How about showing self control?