College Experience Essay

Liberty is simply freedom. “The shortest definition I know is, liberty is freedom. It is, however, as important to know what it does not mean as it is to know what it does mean.” (Stewar) I cannot think of a better way to define liberty. Some may experience liberty in their personal lives because of many reasons. It is the right to speak one’s mind, voice opinions, and to decide who is going to lead a nation and that in itself is liberty. An example of liberty is a slave finally becoming free…

Obstacles are a normal part of life that every individual will face as they continue walking down the path of time, but they all serve to teach fundamental lessons about life. While there are many that a person can face, there are some that changes their perspective on the world forever. When I was six, my mother was diagnosed with an egg sized stage three brain tumor; Anaplastic astrocytoma. It marked the beginning of a period of catastrophic events that left me feeling hopeless. My mother was…

I would never have thought that I could immigrate to the US. Although a brand-new life spread out in front of me, I have never forgotten my country. Also, although Nepal and the U.S. share some similarities as to religious freedom, my life experiences are different in terms of language, lifestyle, and job opportunities. The first major difference of life between the US and Nepal is the language. In fact, all different countries…

others she was faced with. She was judged by her society for her appearance because she was a woman from Puerto Rico and had experienced racist situations when she first arrived in the United States. Cofer’s article begins with a flashback to her college days where she was experiencing harassment from an unknown young male who came from pub. Cofer was truly was concerned about terrible remarks made about stereotypes related to her race. The racial challenges presented in “Don’t Misread My…

Minecraft Username: boatn Age: 16 Previous Experience: In my time playing this game I have had a great amount of experience in moderatoring and being staff on servers. My first role as staff on any server was VibalHCF. At Vibal I was trail mod for around five days before being promoted up to moderator. While I was staff on Vibal I did a number of things: screen sharing, forum administration, watching, catching and banning hackers; reading applications as well as helping out in team speak! Being…

While learning allows us to gain knowledge on a subject, learning from our mistakes inspires us to make our own understanding and truths about the world around us and in our personal lives. Experience is the key that opens the door to wisdom. In “Solitude and Leadership,” Deresiewicz questions our system of education that trains students to not be able to think for themselves. Similarly, Hesse uses Siddhartha’s journey to enlightenment to illuminate the idea that certain revelations cannot be…

I do deal with adversity; it may be a unique kind of adversity, but this particular adversity truly depicts my lifestyle. Every human being proves himself or herself through some sort of competition, whether it is a sport or any particular game. Uniquely, my type of adversity is not the game or the sport. Although I play the sport of tennis, I’m welcomed with an entirely new situation that has differed me in the tennis society. At the crack of dawn, I rise up out of my hotel bedroom, nervous…

My three engagement activities of service, leadership and internship complemented each other very well, because all three of my experiences taught me what it meant to be a well-rounded leader. Throughout my entire engagement within the program it was very surprising to see many connections overlap within each activity. The first one I realized that I had practiced with all three activities was social engagement, me practicing social engagement was included in all three of my activities by me…

and mindset. As college is hastily approaching, I see more and more people wanting to stay in the comfort of living near what is known. Not that there is anything wrong with living close to home, but personally I would rather go to a place completely unique to that of my own inner world. A place where the ideologies shared are rather unlike to that of what I’m accustomed to. But despite one’s drive or lack thereof to physically explore the world, cultures and personal experiences can and will…

The idea of Literacy Sponsorship described by Brandt shows that we become literate from everyday activities from the people we meet, the places we go to everyday and the resources we have at our disposal. In my experience in reading and writing, there has been numerous Literacy Sponsors in their own form. While growing up, my parents acted as my first literacy sponsors and helped me through reading and writing then throughout school. In my Sophomore year of High School, my teacher introduced a…