No, an essay BOT did not write this entry…only because it’s busy writing another entry. KIDDING…or am I? (Insert evil laugh here)

Ask an essay Bot to write an academic paper on the Treaty of Versailles, it can. Ask an essay Bot to write a poem or short story, it can. However, the college application personal statements need to be specific to you, not a generic or fictional impression of you. Ten students can write about playing the guitar but the content, for the most part, will be entirely different based on each student’s personal experience, personal reasons, personality, sensibility, etc.

Meanwhile, programs have already been created to detect essay Bots. That’s right….. it’s the battle of the Essay Bots…..not as exciting perhaps as a chain saw bearing Bot fighting a Circular saw carrying Bot but in the end, it’s a blood bath for the student who cheated.

As for college applications, think about it this way: You worked hard for the last 4 years to create a respectable transcript. Do you really want to destroy everything you worked for by letting an essay Bot create a false picture of you that could easily hurt you, not help you? More importantly, is it worth the strong possibility that you get caught?   

And yes, this was written by a human; a normal flesh and blood human.…. Although my wife and daughters might disagree with my use of the term, “normal.”