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Write the prompt of your college essay and then tell us how you plan to approach answering that prompt. Give us some specific details that you will include in your essay.
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Kyle Glaser Period 2
My plan for the college essay is to do the topic of your choice for almost all four colleges that I am applying to. My essay is going to be about the 250 pez that I own. Each of my pez is different and I have collected them for almost ten years now and each one contains a different story. One day all of my pez were stolen while I was a vacation and the doors were locked. It was a creepy experience altogether because I didnt know who took them and I still dont. A couple months later they appeared on my doorstep without a note. Creepy.
My plan for the college essay is to apply for 3 different state universities and complete the criteria for each one in an easy to read essay. I dont think im going to write about a special story in my life or anything like that, unless its relevant, but I will include all the details of how long ive been waiting for this and why I would want to go to that college.
Lacey Helmuth 4
The prompt of my college essay is one for the UW. It says to "discuss how your family’s experience or cultural history enriched you or presented you with opportunities or challenges in pursuing your educational goals." I don't really know how I am going to start the essay, but I know that I am going to mention my dad's hatred towards my grandmother, and how that ultimately led to a divorce between my mom and dad. Obviously this gives me many difficulties throughout my life because I was young when this happened and I didn't really have much of a mother/father relationship. I mostly hung around with friends and developed that bond... I'm still working out the details to how it relates to my (hopefully) teaching career.
But nothing is set in stone yet.
And to Kyle Glaser, that is ridiculous!!!!
Bryttany Enge, September 08, 2008
(last weeks blog- I don't think i signed up correctly, or I don't know what I did but it never saved and I can't prove to you that i did this sunday night, but Im' sending it anyway!)
With all honesty, I decided to take Humanities for the reason that at least once a month I could dress up without being asked why, go out at night with friends without my parents worrying what I’m up to, and see shows with the modest few who have nothing but time in the world to spend it however. In fewer words, I look forward to out elegant class field trips! I know several students who previously took Humanities and told me how much fun it is to dress up and go to the operas. It has been a long while since I have attended any formal shows and I hope to gain a new experience from our outings. I know that these experiences will open my mind up to art of the modern day and of yesterday. Having an open mind about art will allow me to relate with those interested in such art and help me to keep up a conversation about operas, plays, and ballets (also known as networking). I believe that understanding these shows is a crucial form of relating with others and I look forward to such developing influential relations this year and in the future! ☺
erika hodges per.2
B. Select a creative work- a novel, a film, a musical piece, a painting, or other work of art- that has influenced the way you view the world and the way you view yourself. Discuss the impact the work has had on you. (We are more interested in how the work has affected you rather than reading a detailed plot summary or a description of the work.)
i have already picked my film that has really affected me. i had to decide between P.s. I Love You and August Rush but i picked August. People are always trying to find either themselves or others through music and that is really important in life because we all are searching for something and so is someone else and just like there is that perfect string of chords that gets you a diamond record there is also that perfect person that gets you that diamond ring.
Evan Norris Period 6
The Entry for last weeks..
I decided to take Humanities because it should be a different approach to an English class. The performances we will be attending will be a great experience and I am very much looking forward to them. Learning about each of the performances before we go will make each one much more interesting and important, and it will be very interesting to hear about the details that went into the making of each one. My plans for next year are still up in the air, I want to go to college but I need to find the right colleges for me still. Humanities will help me reach my goals by showing me an entirely different kind of English class and ultimately get me closer to the college I will attend.
Jessica Taylor per 2
My prompt for the college application essay is, “Once you have completed your education, would you return to your hometown to begin your adult life? Why or why not?” I’m still not sure how I am going to approach this essay but I think I am going to tell a story about when I was younger. Most likely about my sister and I or a time I was out with my friends in town.
Megan Housekeeper Period 4
The prompt for Western Washington University is a pretty general topic from the question: "What do you want to make sure the Admissions Committee knows about you?", a few of my other choice colleges have prompts similar to this and I think I can use a similar essay for them. I plan to approach this by talking about how i've never had a talent, and until recently wasn't able to find my strength because I was merely looking for conventional talents, such as soccer, dancing, music, or art. I talk about my 17 years of failure, in a light witty way, and eventually go into how i've found that both my passion and my talent seems to be people, or more specifically communication. I plan to talk about my diverse relationships with friends, my much too frequent Starbucks visits to play mock therapist, and how these things have shaped who I am, and eventually who I want to be. I really don't have any clue what I want to do after high school, but I think many colleges are looking for students with some sort of direction and i think this shows that I know one of my strengths and how that could eventually lead me into a career path.
Melissa Nimon p.2
My college asked us to write an essay using the topic of our choice. I started out writing about the unusual circumstance of how I got the courage to try out for the improv team. The story invovled a home made potatoe head, and my cat. I had actually made an entire background for this potatoe leaving no details out. Now I am thinking maybe I should pick something else because I don't want the admissions people think I am a "crazy" for both talking to myself and the cat all in one seriously messed up sitting. I guess I will just stick with it and see where it takes me.
Andrew Song Period 6
The prompt to my essay was to discuss how your family's experience or cultural history enriched you or presented you with obstacles or opportunities in pursuing your educational goals. I think I'm going to just tell them about some of my family history and DO the prompt. Tell them about some times, in which, I learn how to be more independent. And also maybe ill talk about some tough troubles my family had, where i learn the importance of friendship and a cold exterior...maybe :]
Stephanie Morgan Period 6
The prompt for my essay was “What is your dream career?” I’ve already started my essay and in it I’m basically just answering the question and telling why I would enjoy going into that career. To make my essay more interesting I think I might need to go into more detail about how my career choice has affected my life and tell how much I would love it if I actually got that career. My essay is a little long so my main problem is trying to make it a reasonable size.
Andrew Kemis Period 6
With allthe people that apply to colleges the question is and will always continue to be how do I come off as unique. My plan for applying to colleges is to apply to four all of which have very vague prompts. The prompts as us to wirte about a topic of our choice. I intend on writing about construction and invention. By this I mean about my life because it is composed of buiding and making things. Things I plan to use in my essay are things like the idea I had about using the tile in my shower as a whiteboard and drawing my ideas on it with a sharpie. During the summer I not only work around my house building different things for the garden but also for my dads company where I fix and build machines. Working is my life whether it be at home, at work, or even at school. During the school year I build sets for the drama productions. Work is my life and a hobby. I'm the only person I know who wants to work whether it be digging ditches or putting a toy together. Who else would give themselves more work by making their cp fabricating a metal bench that must be welded together. These are the things that make me unique because there are not many kids i know who like to work and find it fun
Bergen Anderson Period 2
My college essay prompt is any topic of my choice. I have chose to write about the close relationship I have with my older brother and how difficult it has been for me to have him get married and move out. I miss him. I will give details about when he was first dating his wife and the relationship I had with her, which was not good at first. However how I actually pull this off without giving facts is my challenge that lies ahead.
michael haines period 4
my essay prompt is to explain how a movie or piece of music affected my life. i chose to use a movie that my brother made in highschool called boxes. it is about a guy, a bunch of boxes and where they lead him. i am going to try to use this as a metaphor for life.
Heather Thomas Period 2
For my college essay my topic will be a topic of my choice. I have a scholarship to Seattle University so I'm not to worried about my essay. I've started writing about two main topics. My mother being my inspiration and the way I was raised. I plan on writing two copies of each topic then seeing which one I want to go with. If I go with my mother, I'll write about how blessed I am to have her as a mother after all she's been through. Or, if I write about me, I'll go into detail about how I was raised with a lot yet still grew up into a respectful young lady.
Clayton Butler Period
When I was looking at colleges to find one that fit my characteristics of a good school. The problem is, my grades aren't good enough to get into my number one choice, UW. However for the class I still wanted to do my essay so I typed it as if it was for the University of Washington, but I'm choosing my own topic so I know I won't get bored and not do that assignment. Anyways, back to the blog. I will be writing about how a business degree from the UW will help me substantially to reach my goals for after college. The goals that those are is marrying and having a great family and me being the rock and foundation of the family and have my children grow up to be successful, respectable and great all around people.
Michelle Le, period 2
The prompt for my college essay is to tell a story from my life that demonstrates my character. I'm planning to write about those horrible rehearsals I had to go through last year for the Nutcracker's Waltz of the Flowers. It was so annoying because the ballet mistress kept stopping us to tell us we were doing everything wrong, and then we had to redo sections of the dance like a hundred times before she was happy. And it didn't help that my toes hurt and I got super tired after practicing for so long. But when we finally got to perform, it was all very grand. Within eight minutes it was all over though. I had done all those rehearsals for only eight minutes on stage!
Mackenzie Engel
Period 6
I am applying to about 5 colleges, but because my choice essay question is similar to a free response question, i can use the same essay for 3 of the applications. The essay topic for one of my top college choices, the UW, reads as follows..."Tell us a story from your life, describing an experience that either demonstrates your character or helped to shape it." I have never been able to narrow down my life to a few specific moments of importance that stand out against the rest, so this topic was difficult for me to approach. I decided to take a vivid memory from when i was young, about being approached by a stranger, and explain how I feel that in my case, it is the most seemingly insignificant moments and connections with strangers that effect me the most profoundly. It is one of my oldest memories and i think that the way I explained the situation in my essay says a lot of things about my character that I have never been able to find the words to explain.
Tanner Low Period 4
The prompt for my college essay was to just write an essay to help them understand more about me. My essay starts of describing my mornings and how I eat my breakfast cereal in particular. After this description I start to tie it together with my dad and I describe my dad and I and how we are so alike in almost everything. Then I end with, how I'm not bothered that I am just like my dad, and that he is an example of someone I want to be like when I'm older. I also write about God and becoming Godlike myself. Overall I try to show my uniqueness and I describe myself when I describe my dad, so hopefully this will give the Admissions officer a good idea of who I am and put a face and personality to my application.
Preston Longoni Period 4
My college essay promt is one of two choices for the UW which is "tell us a story from your life, desbribing an experience that either demonstrates your character or helped to shape it." So given that, I chose to write about golf and making the team as a freshman, but with the help from Schindler the man himself, I changed it to one time when I went fishing with my dad for salmon in the puget sound. Im writing about the conversation that went on and all of the scenery that there is in the area. Im also making it a main point of how I have patience because I didnt catch a fish (or have a nibble for that matter) for a couple hours and then finally they started hitting.
Shae Hurst Period 6
The prompt that I am choosing to write my essay for the University of Washington is “Tell us a story from your life, describing an experience that either demonstrates your character or helped to shape it”. I am planning on writing my essay on my experience at work and how it has shaped my life. I work at Starbuck’s and I have a specific example of when I almost quit. My essay ties together two parts of my personality that I think colleges should be aware of. It shows my work ethic and ability to deal with change even though I resist it at first. I am using the analogy of optimism and pessimism in my essay by connecting the saying “is the glass half full or half empty” with my job at Starbuck’s and how it has shown me not to give up on people. I explore the situation of when I quit and then un-quit with the help of one of my friends from work. I think my essay will display a lot of my qualities even if some of them aren’t maybe the most desirable.
rosie polaschek, period four.
The prompt I picked is to "tell something about yourself", and I decided to write about the fact that I am not-so secretly a huge geek. The justification for this is my minor obsession with apostrophes, and how picky I am about them being in the right places. I use a few examples of me being geeky, but I don't really have any big moral or point, which is probably not that good. I will probably revise it a few more times because I've really only written the bare minimum,
Jinny Kim period 4
One of my prompt is write about why do you want to come our school and how school's education will help you. I already wrote my eassay and I wrtoe that how I decide to go to this college. I said I hard my junior year and my parents helped me to find what I most like and want to do. I also talked about how much I love to do art and which type of art I like to do and want to do. I wrote I want to learn more about design so your school will develope my skills. I pretty much talked about my past life that when I had hard time to decide to go to art college and I try to approve how much I love to art. I need to add more about creative interesting. It is going so well. I love it.
Montana Ferris / Period 2
Prompt: There is a significant difference between a stupid mistake and a clever one. Give an example of a "clever" mistake and explain how it benefited you or others.
I chose to respond to this prompt by talking about how a few years ago my goals for the future were non-existent. I had no idea what college I wanted to attend or even what I wanted to study. However, I signed up for a graphic design class in my sophomore year at Woodinville High School and all this changed.
From my understanding, I thought the class would be centered around computers. After the first day I found out that the class had nothing to do with computers, but instead focused around learning key elements to understand design in general.
I didn't know what to make of the class at first and I thought that I had mistakingly signed up for it. But even though it was not what I had expected, I became highly interested in it as time went by. It helped me to improve my drawing and conceptual skills while also teaching me the elements and principles of design. This experience opened me up to something that I now want to pursue as a career option.
Jordan Adam – Per. 4
My prompt: “Describe a person who has significantly influenced you”. I’ve chosen to write about an old teacher of mine, a Social Studies teacher named Mr. Ruzycki. I’ve laid siege on this essay by starting with some quick free-writes concerning as much as I can remember about him. I vomit my experiences with him and his class as quickly as I can on a piece of paper, and then look for ways to improve my writing’s coherence. As patterns and gems of memory appear in my pool of written bile, I focus them into more prominence in my paper. Hopefully it’ll all result in a nice clean essay, once I fish the good stuff out of my metaphorical puke pile.
I talk about how wonderfully lively and interesting Ruzycki’s class always was, and how he accomplished it. He’d always begin units of history like he was telling a story, with plenty of movement and enthusiasm. Somehow he could always enrapture students, enlivening otherwise dull historical subjects with his varying vocal tones and enthused gesticulations. Plus the life lessons he always seemed to have at hand made me respect him a bunch too. His class was actually fun, and somehow I learned a whole slew of stuff at the same time.
Gabe Gonzalez Period 2
I plan on writing a free response type essay for at least one application, while also having several prompts in mind for other schools. For my free response essay I will be writing about a friend I made in Spain, and how he became an inspiration for me and guided me through a fairly challenging part of my life. We had some family issues going on and I had been having a difficult time adjusting to life in Spain. I am aiming to use a number of specific examples in my essay, while keeping a kind of rhythm and connection between my ideas, which I think will be the most difficult part of the writing. Spain, however, is a wonderful place and I very much look forward to using it as the setting in my essay.
bryttany enge period 6
My essay prompt asks the student to describe a life experience that either demonstrates my character or helped to shape it. I have several ideas for my essay. One includes describing an experience on a thrill ride. I plan to describe how I felt before and after the ride and what I learned from his experience. Another idea will describe my visit to the island of Samoa, where my mother was born. In this essay I portray the differences between here, America, and there, Samoan. Finally, for my third idea, I plan to describe how I feel riding in my car. I’m hoping that I will find the perfect tone through one of this essays and I will be able to successfully write my college essay.
Rebecca Taicz Period 6
My college essay topic is describing a moment or memory that shows and defines who you are. I am going to write about the first time I drove my parent's car anywhere further than just into town. Although I started out really excited about it, I made a lot of mistakes that I've never made before due to my arrogance in the situation. The draft I have right now still needs a lot of revision to relate it to a main idea, but I plan to connect into a moral idea or explanation of me relating to humility and such.
Leticia Lopez Period 4
So my topic for the college essay thing is like, describe an event in your life and basically just tell how it affected you and how it changed you and all that. I chose to talk about how moving to Woodinville area really affected me and my family and just basically what happened when we had to move and live life over here. I'm trying to make it so that Im not making it feel like I want pity, but more just as a lesson in what I had to go through in my life and really just how I handled it. but yeah..the end I guess
Megan Pinzon Period 4
My college entrance essay topic is "what is your dream job?". I am planning on writing about how I dream of becoming a photographer and how art and photography put passion into my life. I am starting out with the moment I knew I wanted to take pictures for the rest of my life and going into the different ways it changed my life and finish with how I am going to live my dream.
Andrew Pilgrim Period 4
I chose the harvard application essay for my class essay, but I also plan to apply at other colleges. The harvard essay is very open ended and really just says to write on any topic. This was frustrating at first but they did give some possible topics and from those I chose to write about an experience that has impacted or changed my life. I wrote about my old high school, where I went my freshman and sophomore year. There was quite a bit of trauma at that school because a boy shot himself there during my sophomore year. I chose to write about that even though it is difficult to write about because that act has impacted my life more than any other single experience I have gone through and has really helped shape me as a person. I am not sure if it was a good choice but once I recieve feedback I can easile write on another subject.
Mr. Schindler
Lots of your classmates have not done their blogs yet. If you see they have not done this, do them a favor and call, reminding them. Thank you and thank you on their behalf.
Kenna Campbell period 6
My essay topic is to talk about your dream job and why it is. So my essay will talk about band and my teacher mr. Lucas because i want to become a high school band director. So if i write my favorite story from band and tie it into my essay about what i have been striving for i think that will make a pretty good paper. I will write about this year, a couple friends and I made a band flag to take to the football games. I spend a total of about 9 to 10 hours making that flag. I was the only one who knew how to sew, so i spent the whole night in front of my mom's sewing machine. Or maybe i will write about when Mr. Lucas danced and rapped with us before band camp, it's all still up in the air.
Chris Hong Period 6
My plan for the college essay is to write a essay about things i can bring to the college that is possitive. in order to answer this prompt i will probably talk about my moving experience. i moved from South Korea when i was in 7th grade so i can talk about cultural challanges that i had or new experiences. i had some problems when i moved here but generally i did not have too much of a problem getting along with fellow students and communicating for some reason, and thats something that i can talk about that is positive about myself towards the college. i'll probably end up writting a very personal essay and hopfully it will do its job...
Sam Franklin Per 6
The prompt for my college essay is to evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk I have taken, or ethical dilemma that I have faced and its impact on me. I plan on writing about my experience at a theater in Kirkland named Studio East and how, in the past 6 years I’ve been volunteering there its changed my life is so many ways. And what it has given me that will help me in college and in life.
Sarah Jane Elliott
Period 2
The college to which I'm applying gave us a choice of topic. I'm choosing to write about when I met my hero Sutton Foster. She's a big musical theatre actress and I've followed her work since I was 14. Right now she is in "Shrek: The Musical" at 5th Avenue. I'm writing about how wonderful it was to meet her after the show and see that she was a real person. My plan is to start out the essay describing why I idolized her and why I've wanted to meet her so badly. Then I transition to all the times I've attempted to meet her (practically stalk her) and she either wouldn't come out of the stage door or I would just miss her. I'm also planning on writing about how much I embarrassed myself upon actually meeting her. I'm summarizing my essay by describing how the moment change me and how incredibly happy it made me feel overall.
Karin Ochsner Period 4
The essay prompt for the University of Denver is “Topic of your choice.” It took me a while to come up with a topic as I kept coming up with more cliché essay topics. But as I kept going through topics in my mind I decided to write about a business I want to own after I graduate college. Ever since second grade I have always wanted to own a coffee shop. I just love the atmosphere of coffee shops, when people come in morning after morning to start their day. Where I can get to know the people, to see their smiles after they take their first sip of coffee, to hear chatter and laughter, and to smell the welcoming scent that coffee brings. I just think its amazing how one specific moment in second grade was the moment I knew exactly what I wanted to be in the future.
Kristina Thorson Per 2
My college essay is about equestrian sports. It is for a scolarship for the St. Andrews Equestrian Team. The prompt is three questions combined. I am talking about my expierence in my riding and volunteer oppurtunities at Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center. The center is for children and adults who have disabilitys. I have volunteered there for about 5 years, and have many memories there that help me with my future of becoming a therapeutic riding instructor.
Jessica Karr p.4
My essay prompt asks if I'm the same person I was in eighth grade? and if not, what happened to me, and who will I be after any anticipated changes within the next 4-5 years at college. I am going to write about my experiences with depression with myself and others I am close with, and how experiencing the loss of friends and dealing with those struggling with severe problems have enabled me to connect more with a larger variety of people.
Tia Bailey Period 4
Why is it important for americans to aquire a second language? What to hope/plan to gain from your progam that you will be attending?
In my essay i plan on including that spanish is the second dominating language in our coutry and world. How our buisness overseas has put our language in the number one catagory, and how a century from now, either chinese or japanese will be the leading language. I plan on learning more about how the languages came to be and how to be more actively aware of the similarities and differences that connect one to another.
Stephanie Bateman Period 2
The topic I have is to write about an experience that has changed your life in a positive way or a significant thing in your life. I'm choosing to write about my community service that i did at Woodinville parks and recreation. I taught senior citizens how to use computers. I got paired up with a specific lady who was absolutly amazing. Her name was Annie and she was planning on writing a novel about her family history. She is 84 years old and more determined than anyone i have ever met. She taught me more than I could have ever taught her. Not only was she an amazing person to look up to but she actually helped me with school work and loved to share stories. I was reading a book in english at that time that was all in slavery slaying. I couldn't understand a word of it! She talked me through it and showed me how to read it. If you only look around you and talk to people you can learn so much more than you might expect. I went there to teach her how to use a computer and came out with not only a role model but more knowledge of things than when i went into the program.
Porter Bree Per 4
First things first...Bauld suggests not to write on death and how it changes your life etc etc etc....
but i'm choosing to ignore him, or at least this one time and write about my twin brother Brandon, I'm going to write about the day he died...our last day "together" on earth, im going to talk about how I remember it was the making of a great day and then how it flip flopped, i'm just going to recall everything that happened after our swim...
Alex Garcia Period 6
The Topic for my essay was "evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you." I am approaching this topic by talking about the time i went on a roller-coaster because i feel it is interesting and if very easy to relate to the things that are currently going on in my life. This topic is only for one of the colleges i am applying to and i may have to write a seperate essay if i plan on applying to other colleges. I also plan on writing many drafts to make the paper as good as possible.
Mandi DeLaVergne, Period 6
The prompt for my college essay is to "evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you" for Seattle University. I am probably going to tackle this prompt with the experience of having a tumor, and how it impacted me. I will mention how many people thought i was pregnant, and put some humor into it. I will talk about how it affected both me and a significant amount of others. Im not sure how i am going to start the essay or grab the readers attention, but I will figure it out.I might have to tackle some other essays for different colleges I plan on applying to, but this was my first choice so I want to make this one the best it can possibly be!
Cristina Rice Period 2
My essay topics are "How have your past experiences influenced your academic record?" and "What are you presently doing to ensure your academic success?" and "What are your academic goals and how will Central Washington University help you accomplish these goals?" I plan on answering each one of these questions honestly and in depth. I hope to give the school an idea of who i am and why i would like to go to their school and show them that i am unique. In the end i hope my topics show this school that im a great candidate for their school.
Stuart Dransfield
Period 4
My college essay had a three-part questioner. My first question is have your past experiences influenced your academic record? In this part I talk about how I have not done that well in high school before but plan to change that this year. The second question asks what are you presently doing to insure academic success? In this part I talk about how in my senior year of high school I am taking 6 core classes so that I can get into college. The last question is what are your academic goals and how will CWU help you accomplish these goals? In this part I tell them that I have not settled on a major yet but your school has a lot of options for me.
Talia Cowan Per 6
The prompt for my application essay is a topic of my choice. So the topic I've chosen is on my special stress-relieving sketch book. I'll mention what my friends and I usually do when we draw in my book. Give an example of a drawing we did, and then explain what the picture means to us.
Helen Wiltsey Period 4
For one of the colleges I am applying to they request 3 essays. The one I am working the most on is my personal statement. I am trying to formulate an essay on something which I find to be sort of mundane everyday things but make it quirky or put a sort of philosopical/universal truth spin on it. The other two essays are about cultural and religious affiliations. Those two are much more straight forward as I know what those affiliations are, and all I need to do is to make the readers care about it.
Ryan De La Riva Period-2
My essay prompt is to explain an experience that I had were I met people who were different than me in some way. The way I plan to write this essay is that I plan on telling the story of when I was younger. The people were different than me because they were rich as all hell and I had never been around people like that before. I am just going to explain in my essay about how I hung out with their kids and saw all the things they had. They were also very religious so it was different when we had to say grace before we ate and we couldn’t say certain words around them. My essay will just be what I can remember of the experience.
Alyssa De Hoop Period 4
At Azusa Pacific, the college I am applying to, they try to build their institution on four cornerstones: Christ, Transformational Scholarship, life-giving Community and Sacrificial Service. The prompt asked me to articulate how each of those cornerstones are evident in my life, how I see them developing during my education and how I perceive Azusa Pacific assisting in that growth. I simply explained how those are evident in my life but did it with a bit of flare. I opened my essay with a story from when I was a little girl and would tell all of my neighbors about Jesus because I wanted to make sure they were coming to Heaven with me. I then talked about my relationship with the Lord a few years ago and how I was just a typical teenage Christian girl living through my parents’ faith. Through many challenges I have faced these last few years I’ve really gotten to know God in my own way and have had to learn how to trust His plan even when I don’t feel like it’s the right one. I now have my own faith in the Lord and try to live my life for Jesus as best I can. God has blessed me with two gifts acting and loving people. I said I see Azusa helping me grow because they are a very mission focused school and I plan on being a missionary and using the gifts God has instilled in me.
Sam Bellefeuille Period 6
For my essay prompt i chose a topic of my choice. The topic i am going to write about is living in London and the expierence i got from living there for two years. Living in London opened me to many new lifestyles that i wasnt used to and it really opened me to more than the American way of life. I am going to include in my essay the dificulties i experienced living there and how it was to adapt to a new lifestyle.
Dathan Bauman period 2
For the college essay my prompt is to tell about some advice that has change my life. I'm trying to do this topic but it's hard to come up with a story about someone giving me advice. The time i got advice that kinda changed my life was when one of my teachers told me to keep organized. I still don't keep organize, so not much of a life changer there. I think I need to find a better topic that is more open to different ideas.
Jamae Coonts period 6
If i do go to college, I plan on going to Cornish College of the arts in seattle washington and to major in dance. Looking at their application essay requirements it says to explain what type of art you like, how logn youhave been doing it,how did u get started, Etc. So for my essay i am going to tell about some experiences ive had with dance.
Tess Opincarne, Period 6
"Please write a detailed (at least 500 words) on how Pacific University fits your educational and career goals. This is your chance to share your thoughts with the Admissions Committee on how the university is a match for you, what your best assets are, and what contributions you would like to make in out campus community"
I plan to write to the later parts in the prompt rather than the specific question, as I have no idea what I want to do and what I'm going to study, therefore don't know exactly what my "educational and career goals" are. I intend to include how I have contributed to my high school community, through sports as well as being the president of FADE and TSA. I've been trying to think of a story exhibiting how I have shown or discovered something about who I am through one of my extracurriculars, but still don't know exactly what I'm going to write about. I want to fit this in with why I like Pacific University, focusing on its small enrollment, and how that means I can be a dynamic part of the University, and affect a larger portion of the population.
Kaiti Staup, Period 4
The writing prompt is not yet available for the school of my choice, but hopefully the ideas that i have been brainstorming in class will fit the prompt. For now I am hoping to write about something that pertains to society as a whole and tie it back to my by relating that issue to a personal experience of my own. I have been free-writing about feminine beauty and how society's perception of it shapes how we as women direct ourselves.
we'll see how it all turns out!
Matt MacDougall per 2
My topic for my essay is called an insight resume. It consists of six seperate questions and im not allowed to type more than 100 words. some of the topics are community, adversity, knowledge in a field, handiling systemic challlenges and goals commitment. Even though i have 100 words per topic I talk about how i have worked on my old car ever since i was a little kid with my dad and how we still have the same car with over 200,000 miles on it. I believe this will be a good topic because it shows commitment as well as several other admerable traits. But also its very easily tied back to Mechanical Engineering, which i am looking at going to OSU for.
Kayla Aldridge Period 6
I chose to write my essay for the UW essay prompt. The prompt was to tell an experience or story that has shaped or defined your character today. I wrote about my Grandpa and how experiencing the last few years of his life with him while he was in a nursing home made me realize that I want to pursue nursing as a profession in the future. I also included in my essay how he shaped the person I am today and the values I have.
Evan Norris Period 6
My prompt for the college essay is to do the topic of my choice for the 3 colleges I am applying to. The essay will cover what I want to go to the college for. I will cover what I want to go to college for and tell them about me.
Phillip Foshee
period 6
I plan to use my college essay as one of the essays for one of the colleges i choose to go to. I plan to make my easay in depth with many describeing and supporting details. Im not going to focus so much on the length of my essay but more on the quality of my writing. I'm going to write about something that i have done in my lifetime that has made a difference in another persons life and how it made me feel.
Kenny Exelby Period 4
Prompt: If you are interested in a certain academic area, tell us why. Do you have a dream job in mind, if so we'd like to hear it.
I have always been interested in psychology and in marketing and I found out recently that there are some major ad agencies that hire people to find out what the public likes, which is both psychology and marketing. This would be my dream job. Some examples I am going to use in my essay, would be all the fun times and interesting things I have learned from being in marketing classes every year at Woodinville. I have taken some psychology classes as well and I think I might put some of the interesting facts I learned from that in as well.
Danielle Jacobson P.6
The prompt i will be doing for my essay is the UW prompt. I am supposed to explain how somehting in my life that has shaped or defined me. I plan to approach this question by thinking of one of the best storys that shows change in my life the most. Then from there i will explain how this has changed and shaped me as a person and what qualities i have gained from it. Details I plan to include are when i got sick and how i learned to overcome things. That i kept pursueing what i wanted and that i didn't settle for the average on all things and tryed to make up some of the worst things that happened. Also adding how i dealt with the issue and how it frustrated me. Thats about the summary of it.
Mike smolkowski Period 4
My personal statement asks me to explain a character developing moment, the cultural awarness you've developed, a challenged faced, or a personal hardship or barrier overcome. For me, I have not really done anything that can fit into these catagories. The best thing i got is the USA cup. A major soccer tournament with teams from around the world. I plan on talking about how the scottish and icelnadic kids i met changed me and my views on people from different countries. For the scottish I am going to talk about how they all got drunk and their coach bought it all for them. Gettting drunk for them is nothing and for anyone american, that is something that is out of the question
andy wolfe period 2
the prompt for my college essay is what is your dream job, how you relate with multiculturalism, and also to write about anything that you would like the admissions officers to know. i am going to answer these first by explaining how my dream job is to become a nutritionist and i will talk about why and i want to and what drew me to that job. in the next paragraph i will talk about how i work with people from different cultures and i get to understand the dificulties that they undergo while living here, and also about the differences between us and how i help them get to know my culture a little better. in the last paragraph i am going to talk abouit my academis record and how it was bad when i was in junior high and then when i was a junior i got on medicine for add and my grades went increasingly up and i am just going to explin to them why my gpa was so bad in 9th and 10th grade because i had a learning dissability and i couldnt focus.
Joel Maltos Period 4
The essay topic i chose for my college essay is a person who has had a great and lasting influence on my life. At first I wanted to write about my mother but then i changed my mind and now i am writing about how my parents have influenced me. I changed my mind because i feel that i can mold a more complete venette with writing about my parents and not just my mother. I plan to write about how my parents have implanted guidance into my life not just telling how to go about myself but more the characteristics of guidence. It's about to be a money essay for sure.
Spencer Asavadejkajorn period 4
My essay prompt is on the most influential person in my life. All I have heard people say is that this is a hard topic to write about. I have also heard that it helps to make it a very interesting story rather that an autobiography. So for my essay I will be writing about my dad. I will be writing about him because everything I know about life came from him. I know he will be able to guide me through the rest of my independent life because of how he grew up. The story of my essay will be of my dad growing up in Bangkok, then moving to Seattle and starting his own business and family.
Zoe Thiemann
Period 6
My prompt was to tell a story from your life, describing an experience that either demonstrates your character or helped to shape it. My essay is going to be the story of my friendship between a close friend and I. It is going to talk about how this friendship has made me who i am today. This unique friendship is about surviving obstacles, becoming independent and valuing family and other important things in life.
Brendan Connor
Per.4
I am applying to several colleges, and of them I chose the most generic essay prompt. My prompt was, "write about several things that have happened in your life that have affected your academics." I will take a very straightforward approach to this, and simply tell of how my transition from Junior High to High school made me start to fail classes, and how, in my last year, I pulled it back together and got my grades up. I may also include how my love of politics has made me push harder.
Nathan Zimmerman Per. 6
My college application has an essay where you can craft you own topic to write about. The only requirements are that it needs to be over 250 words as a minimum. My idea for a topic came after several drafts of my first idea. What I thought would be a good idea for my essay would be to compare my experiences with the public transportaion system in the United STates versus the European countries I've lived in. I thought i would talk about the memories I had riding the tram to preschool in Switzerland. I would comment on the huge differences between the cultures of European nations with good transit systems versus our country whose emphasis is heavily on car usage. The use of cars in Switzerland or Holland where i lived is essentially unneccesary. I also thought that it would be good to mention my feeling that our country needs to seriously reconsider increasing the amount of public transportation available to reduce traffic congestion and lower emmissions. I could tell other stories about how when I lived in Holland we used our bikes to ride into town instead of driving and parking. I hope the first draft comes out well it seems like a good topic.
Christin Thrane Period 4
The prompt of my college essay is "Imagine yourself being an actor/actress. Tell about your feelings before the opening night of the performance where you play the title role." Because I’ll probably not go to an American college and couldn’t find essay topics for the Norwegian schools I’m thinking of applying to, I chose a relatively random one. I’m planning on writing about my perspective of things and how people handle stressful situations different. I’ve already figured out that writing two pages about your feelings alone can be a challenge, therefore I’ll probably also analyze my feelings and explain why I think the way I do.
Chanelle Herrera, period 4.
I chose to apply for a scholarship instead of writing a college essay. The topic for this scholarship was *Tell about an idea about life being an American and how you view what most people want* So I wrote about the American Dream and how most people want fame or money or status to be considered succesful in life, but how I think those things can and will eventually fail and what I think matters most is ebign able to find a place to call your home.
Great post. Thanks for sharing.
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