Appeal to Emotion My childhood left three months ago on a plane to Austria. It was a sad day, the end of June, when my baby cousins moved away. They had lived nearby for almost five years, and now they were moving to a country too far to visit with any regularity. My cousins wer
My most important experience sought me out. It happened to me; I didnt cause it. My preferred companions are books or music or pen and paper. I have only a small circle of close friends, few of whom get along together. They could easily be counted misfits. To be plain, I found i
Undergraduate College Application Essay Sample From the time I was able to realize what a university was, all I heard from my mothers side of the family was about the University of Michigan and the great heritage it has. Many a Saturday afternoon my grandfather would devote to m
I guess it was inevitable that Id be on hockey skates at some point in my life, but I did not expect that Id become one of a rare group of female ice hockey officials before I even reached high school. Being born into a family of hockey players and figure skaters, it seemed that
It has come to my attention that our nations, and nations like ours, have long been plagued by a mysterious occurrence. An occurrence that is as perplexing as it is frustrating, and as baffling as it is widespread, a problem that finds its origins at the very foot of our society
Im so bad at this, she said, shaking her red-orange hair. Michaela was standing in the middle of the soccer field holding a ball in her hands. She was trying to juggle it off her thighs, but couldnt do it more than three times in a row. No, youre not, I said. Lots of the other k
Undergraduate College Application Essay Sample 6 I used to be a pretty deep guy.I watched foreign films, read Nietzsche, and stayed up all night contemplating jazz.I was Jack Kerouac living in a fire hut on top of Desolation Peak.I was Gary Snyder seeking enlightenment in a Budd
As a seventeen year old, I dont yet have the experience or vision to know exactly what I want to accomplish. What I hope college will do for me is to broaden my base of knowledge with a solid liberal arts education. I would like to have the power to explore Drakes equation for e
I knew I was gong to Pittsburgh to play in a tournament. I didnt know I would be visiting Houston, Pennsylvania between matches. A rural suburb twenty miles outside the citys industrial hub, Houston is my fathers hometown. His family, he says, was dirt poor and barely able to su
Finding Nemo is playing every hour on the hour this week. The theater teems with ornery, hyperactive kids for the half hour before each show. We have thirty minutes between each surge to sweep the floors of the concession stand before the next wave arrives to plead with their pa
I come from a country that is economically oppressed, a country where speaking against the government could cost one his or her life. There is no established government. Survival of the fittest is the regulation that we live by. There is no law enforcement, no government to comp
A person who influenced me was Mrs. Baldwin, my best friends mother. Mrs. Baldwin was always around whenever I went over to see Stacey. She was form Alabama and she always looked up from whatever she was making and said Hey girl to me when I came in the kitchen door. I was shock