College Essay On Openness

Openness. I believe I am extremely open-minded, but I don’t actively seek out new experiences for the sake of participating in them. If my friend drops a bomb and suggests, “Hey, let’s go skydiving; I bought our tickets and booked everything for tomorrow morning,” I would welcome the idea. However, I would not go out of my way to put together an entire skydiving trip on a whim without telling anybody first. My openness is limited by rationality and priorities, as I am sure is the case for many other people. If my friend did not purchase the tickets and book everything herself, I probably would not have gone due to financial reasons. If she booked the trip on a school day, I definitely would not have gone. My open-mindedness, however, enables me to accept the fact others may want to go even …show more content…
Only a few months ago I was in classrooms with people my age, I had to tell a teacher or staff member where I would be at all times, and I had to attend six classes, five days a week. When I arrived here, I felt like I was in a completely different country. Some students get up and just leave the classroom early and never come back, and the professors never say anything. There are no “yard duty” staff members or “narks” all over campus telling people where they can or can’t sit. I have to buy my own scantrons. There are students here with all kinds of backgrounds, occupations, and ages that are way out of my own little bubble of familiarity. It is still quite shocking, but I am able to accept the facts and simply adapt. I like to think that my level of openness is quite high compared to my peers, because I was able to seek out an opportunity to leave my toxic environment (high school) instead of enduring it for another year. My level of openness allowed me to seek other solutions— testing out of high school and dropping out the “right” way— instead of staying in a place I dreaded going to for another