New Vocabulary: College Application Edition

Hey there kiddos, here are a few new words care of my high school students and I.It's college application season, so busy busy. And some genius ideas.

Frankenessay (noun) A college application essay that you cobble together from your other application essays, hoping that it makes sense.

Did you write your essay for Duke yet?

Yeah, but it’s a Frankenessay.

Run-on-and-on (to the tune of Mannah Mannah Do do do do do): (noun) A sentence the length of a paragraph, or you know a short novel.

You need to cut that run-on-and-on; it’s like fifteen sentences strung together, and admisions committees don’t like it when your sentences are too long, and they don’t make good sense all of the time--know what I mean? 

Yeah, Like I"m totally sorry, or whatever. 

Apololie (noun) To apologize even though you don’t mean it AT ALL. Often this is clear from your tone of voice. (Thanks Lacy for this one!)

Teacher: Did she apologize to you like I asked?

Student: Yeah, but it was an apololie.