My Reflective Essay: Applying For College

Senior year was electrifying but at the same time hectic. Along with planning my prom night and finishing my graduation requirements, I had to apply to colleges. This would be the beginning of the next chapter of my life. Applying for college was a long, tedious yet necessary process. Not only did I have to gather recommendations from teachers and transcripts, I had to compose a well written essay to submit with my applications. The prompt for University of Maryland-Baltimore County and Stevenson Univeristy was “Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you?” (Common Application) The essay prompt for Towson asked me to describe what a YouTube video about me would be. I knew I could easily write about when in the future I become a nurse practitioner, the story of how I fell in love with nursing. As soon as I looked at these prompts, my heart sped up, both times. I knew immediately what I would specifically write …show more content…
I opened Google Docs and began to type. In my head I was contemplating “what would be a great introduction”. I started with a basic opening sentence about how I loved this internship. This rough draft was very long. It did not have many tasteful descriptions that would make someone want to read more. It was my first draft though so I was not worried. Back then I was not really good at adding in sensory details. I did not think about making the audience feel they were with me at the hospital until after my rough draft. I knew my second draft would be better. To tell the truth I cannot remember what my English teacher Mr. Ritzer wrote on my rough draft. I do recall him telling me what I had to do to improve the paper. I would have to add more imagery and focus on one story that I intended on sharing with my audience. He believed my idea was very