College Admissions Essays
Scholarship Essay about Goals
Scholarship Essay about Goals Ever since I was a young kid I have always been interested with aircraft. I was so curious of how airplane’s fly. I remember taking my toys apart to see how it works. As a kid I wanted to go to the airport to watch the airplanes land and fly and pondered how this happens. Other kids wanted to go to the amusement places. As I grew older I became more and more interested in aircraft and the technology behind it. I always involved myself with avi...
Scholarship Essay
Scholarship Essay No greater contribution can be made to a specific field than research that leads to the development of a new and superior technology. Universities and businesses constantly attempt to remain on the cutting edge of new design, manufacturing, and application systems through research and development. If I were given the opportunity to conduct my own research, I would dedicate my efforts to the design of computer processing chips with the goal of increasing their s...
Scholarship Question
Scholarship Question What do you believe best represents why you should be considered for this type of financial support? Limit your response to no more than 200 words per question. I think I should point out that the Faculty of Engineering at Chulalongkorn University is the most prestigious faculty of Thailand’s oldest and most famous university. Standards are kept very high by imposing an extremely rigid grading system and making it very difficult to graduate. For example...
Slacking
Slacking It’s unbelievable how each year, since the beginning of high school, my perfectly laid plans for myself have unavoidably deteriorated. When I entered my freshman year, I had aspirations of being a doctor (something I had wanted to be since I was a child). Now, here I am entering my senior year in high school without any idea of what I want to do. Now seems to be the time to start taking life seriously and making responsible, educated choices. Looking back on it now,...
Statement of Purpose
Statement of Purpose I remember the day as if it were yesterday. During my second year in college, I was attempting to transmit a group of characters comprising my name from one computer to another. I connected the computers using RS-232 cable, wrote the necessary programs and executed them. I typed my name on one terminal and rushed to the other to see the results. “Wow, this is magic!” I exclaimed as I read ‘Tom’ on the screen. While I realized intuitiv...
Teacher Certification Admission Essay
Teacher Certification Admission Essay Throughout high school and during my undergraduate studies, education was never a top priority for me. Only during the past two years, in the “real world”, have I realized the importance of education. I look back at those years and wish I had done more and realized all the potential I had in my hands and not wasted so much time. During my undergraduate career my social activities consumed my life. My friends were not motivated to do wel...
The College Experience
The College Experience In High School, college seemed to be the scariest thing that I could think of. Whenever I thought about it my stomach would immediately begin to spin in circles. Although I was ready to go off and be by myself and meet new people I was scared to death at the same time. I didn’t know much about the “college experience” and what I did know (or thought I knew) scared me. I pictured hard classes that I wouldn’t be able to keep up with, people that ...
The Outreach Program
The Outreach Program The Panuluyan was a real eye-opener for me. It made me become aware of the things, which I have normally taken for granted. It was so surprising to see how much little they have, yet at the same time they cherish each little blessing they receive and they never cease to be grateful for what is given to them. It made me see that it was easier to please those who have less, because they expect less. The trip to Camarin also made me realize how much differ...
The Worth of Education
The Worth of Education Scholarship Essay A few days ago, as I was eating lunch with friends, I entered a heated debate a bout the worth of education. “I should not have to learn algebra and calculus because it will have no influence on my life,” my opponent angrily shouted as I tried to defend the usefulness of mathematics. Three days later, I still mul l over the issue, trying to arrive at the origin of the disparity of views betw een my opponent and me. I treasur...
Value of Education
Value of Education A few days ago, as I was eating lunch with friends, I entered a heated debate about the worth of education. “I should not have to learn algebra and calculus because it will have no influence on my life,” my opponent angrily shouted as I tried to defend the usefulness of mathematics. Three days later, I still mul l over the issue, trying to arrive at the origin of the disparity of views betw een my opponent and me. I treasure every bit of knowledge ...
What do you want from college
What do you want from college There are three main categories of things that can be gained in a life experience. We can gain materially, gain in our personality, and gain knowledge. According to our goals we pick which we want more of. I want nothing of the first except to aid my approach to the third. The second will happen as it must over time, and I can’t really guess what will be gained or lost there. So what there is left to tell you about is the knowledge I want. A...
What motivates you to seek a college education Why is Berea College a good choice for you
What motivates you to seek a college education Why is Berea College a good choice for you What motivates me to seek a college education? In addition, why Berea College is a good choice for me. December 16, 2000 The last couple of years have been a long bumpy ride for me, as they have for everyone my age. No matter what, everyone has experienced many of the same “teenage” circumstances as I have and has dealt with them in their own way. As a personal participant in this ...
What will you be like at your high school reunion
What will you be like at your high school reunion An automobile, a vibrant yellow sportscar, pulls up to the front of the school. Its mirrored windows reflect the faces of a large crowd, waiting breathlessly for the car door to open. A man steps out of the driver’s side, dressed in a formal suit, with the roguish appeal and smile of James Bond, the famous 007 agent. He walks around the front of the car and helps his date get out. The two of them stride hand in hand towards...
Which of your possessions reveals most about you and why
Which of your possessions reveals most about you and why “Observe, Watson.” An unfamiliar voice caused me to stop dead in my tracks as I was coming back to my table. Surreptitiously glancing through the foliage, I noticed two men pointing at something. Hesitant to announce my presence, I was very perplexed by the fact that the object they were staring at was my backpack! I was studying in the park and walked off to get a drink of water, and when I came back, whom ...
Your Biggest Mistake
Your Biggest Mistake In response to the question “what has been your biggest mistake?” My biggest mistake is everyone’s biggest mistake, that no one can help. We all take on assumptions throughout our lives, and when we finally come to understand this, we spend our lives undoing all of them in order to approach the truth with assumptionless intelligence. Some get far enough for some gigantic insight. Einstein got far enough back to come up with relativity. ...
Your Ideal Roomate
Your Ideal Roomate I think I’d want someone who was really intelligent and was after the meaning of life. Someone who’d had insights that I hadn’t who could really bounce ideas back at me in a conversation. Someone who wasn’t afraid to break with the norm and who didn’t care if he was a ‘nerd’. Someone with a subtle wit that most people would need to think to laugh at, but who could appreciate and indulge in obvious humor and silliness. ...
Describe a Challenging Situation
Describe a Challenging Situation University of Washington Admissions Essay The challenging family situation I would like to share with you is our move from Korea to the United States. In 1989, my life was changed when my family immigrated to a new country, hoping for a better future. My life in Korea was hopeless, because I was a failing student with not much interest in school. I spent the majority of my time in Arcades, wasting my coins on video games. Rather than studying w...
Describe a Person Who has Significantly Effected You
Describe a Person Who has Significantly Effected You I shudder at the sight of it. I’d rather see them steal that salad than throw it away,” my father bellows in consternation after witnessing the closing rituals at Wendy’s. “Pa, they do it so they can serve fresh food tomorrow,” I defend the fast food employees’ actions. Despite our past four and a half years in “the Land of Plenty,” my father clings to his frugality and tre...
Describe an experience that changed you
Describe an experience that changed you The black pirate hat danced around in the air, weaving and bobbing to some Disneyland music. Attached to it was my head and the rest of me, being dragged along on this wild ride. The only sounds I heard were ones of trumpets soaring higher and higher, trying to hit an absurdly high note. The pirate hat and the warm Florida night had taken control, and my self-consciousness went right out the window. I danced, not greatly or with any skill ...
Discuss an issue of international concern and its importance to you
Discuss an issue of international concern and its importance to you It was easy to empathize with Andy Dufresne and the other prisoners in The Shawshank Redemption as they suffered in their prison cells, I suffered while watching the movie. It was not because I disliked the film far from it. But while the prisoners in the movie were serving their sentences in Shawshank Prison, I served my own three hour sentence for drinking five cups of fruit punch before entering the theatre. ...
Experience that Influenced You
Experience that Influenced You The prompt is: Describe and evaluate one experience that significantly influenced your academic interests. Be sure to explain how this experience led to your setting the goals you know have for yourself and why you think the academic program for which you are applying will help you to reach these goals. He Opened the Door to Anywhere and Anything Mr. Trimble- the tall, bike-riding Calculus teacher who truly made me realize the value of educatio...
Family
Family Scholarship Essay Family Since the day I was born, I have enjoyed story-telling. My first memories are of my father spinning me tales, as I nodded off. Every night I traveled back in time through his stories. I learned of Nero’s sadistic burning of Rome, Adolph Hitler’s maniacal reign, and Sojourner Truth’s brilliant speech. All elements of our historical heritage, for which I have great affection. When I was quite young, my father purchased our ve...
Future Plans
Future Plans Scholarship Essay “Did life exist on Mars?” “What would it take to build a spaceship that could travel at the speed of light?” “When will the moon be colonized?” These are just some of the questions that wander through my mind all day. Fascinated by the secrets of the universe, I yearn to uncover mysteries. In order to blast open all the closed gates between knowledge and myself, I need the powerful tools of education. ...
Generation X
Generation X Question: Popular culture has dubbed you and your contemporaries Generation X. Respond to this label and describe any feelings brought about by this. My main objective in writing this essay was to articulate my feelings on a topic which should matter to those of us who don’t want to be percieved in such a general manner. At the same time I tried to draw comparisons to misunderstood generations of the past. I drew the analogy about algebra because it provides...
Growth
Growth I have always lacked perseverance, a lack of drive, and a general lack of self pride. Never in my life have I felt that that the work I did would mean anything different completed or left half-done. This has been a characteristic of my life for many, many years. Well, this one-day, not all that long ago, I woke up and decided I was tired of never doing anything in a manner inconsistent with half-assed. I went to work that day and worked as hard as I could, and got a r...