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Nov 25, 2014
Undergraduate / The thief. He was a friend... a teammate... but he is an enemy now. College Essay 1 [2]
Describe a setting in which you have collaborated or interacted with people whose experiences and/or beliefs differ from yours. Address your initial feelings, and how those feelings were or were not changed by this experience.
The room is torn apart from top to bottom, let to right, and trashed beyond repair. I'm crying myself to sleep right after soccer practice. Four years of hard work and nothing to show for it. I'm laying there phoneless, friendless, and depressed. My phone was stolen not two hours before, during soccer practice. I knew exactly who stole it. He was a friend... a teammate... but now an enemy.
The person who stole my phone did not need it anymore than I did. He stole for personal gain, which I absolutely loathe of someone. To hurt another person for personal gain. Now, three years later, still without the phone, I'm friends with the guy and my eyes are now more open than ever. It showed me, this world will not hold your hand, and if you want to succeed in this society then you need to look like stone. My feelings went from shock to depression to anger to realization. This experience in the end actually helped me.
I do not agree with robbery or theft so it pains me every time I see it or hear about it. Some people believe if they need something more than the owner does, then they can just take it. No questions asked. Not me though, I believe you need to work hard to get the desired object. I believe theft is harmful to not just to the victim, but to the crook too.
Describe a setting in which you have collaborated or interacted with people whose experiences and/or beliefs differ from yours. Address your initial feelings, and how those feelings were or were not changed by this experience.
The room is torn apart from top to bottom, let to right, and trashed beyond repair. I'm crying myself to sleep right after soccer practice. Four years of hard work and nothing to show for it. I'm laying there phoneless, friendless, and depressed. My phone was stolen not two hours before, during soccer practice. I knew exactly who stole it. He was a friend... a teammate... but now an enemy.
The person who stole my phone did not need it anymore than I did. He stole for personal gain, which I absolutely loathe of someone. To hurt another person for personal gain. Now, three years later, still without the phone, I'm friends with the guy and my eyes are now more open than ever. It showed me, this world will not hold your hand, and if you want to succeed in this society then you need to look like stone. My feelings went from shock to depression to anger to realization. This experience in the end actually helped me.
I do not agree with robbery or theft so it pains me every time I see it or hear about it. Some people believe if they need something more than the owner does, then they can just take it. No questions asked. Not me though, I believe you need to work hard to get the desired object. I believe theft is harmful to not just to the victim, but to the crook too.