kaobrien
Dec 19, 2010
Undergraduate / "Alec's suicide" - significant event, Common App [13]
Evaluate an experience which had a significant effect on you. For the common application.
On March 1st, 2010, I sat at my desk finishing homework as the tragedy that had occurred nearly 4,500 miles away was relayed across miles of bottomless blue to my mother. When she entered my room to relay the news to me, it was late -nearly 1:00 a.m. The black phone gleamed in her hand like a revolver. Her face was aged, as if decades had passed in one night. Immediately, my thoughts flickered to my dad and grandparents. They were the only ones who ever called us on the house phone. When was the last time I'd spoken with them? Were they okay? She sat down on the edge of my bed; the red sheets splayed behind her like pools of blood. "Alec killed himself."
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Evaluate an experience which had a significant effect on you. For the common application.
On March 1st, 2010, I sat at my desk finishing homework as the tragedy that had occurred nearly 4,500 miles away was relayed across miles of bottomless blue to my mother. When she entered my room to relay the news to me, it was late -nearly 1:00 a.m. The black phone gleamed in her hand like a revolver. Her face was aged, as if decades had passed in one night. Immediately, my thoughts flickered to my dad and grandparents. They were the only ones who ever called us on the house phone. When was the last time I'd spoken with them? Were they okay? She sat down on the edge of my bed; the red sheets splayed behind her like pools of blood. "Alec killed himself."
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