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Dec 29, 2009
Undergraduate / the FARTING ESSAY: my original common app essay [11]
This is for the common application topic of choice. Need to shorten about 150words. any suggestions? I was going for originality. Would this work for common app? im applying to ivy leagues. i need grammar checks too please! i have horrible grammar
ps: i would be sure to read yours if you read mine. thanks!
According to a random "scientific" site I found online after googling "farting statistics," an average person passes gas fourteen times daily. Fourteen times! I have been with a person (like a friend) the whole day (hangouts during the day and sleepovers at night), and I do not think I heard my friend fart once. Which leads me to wonder, did that person go to the bathroom to secretly fart fourteen times or did he or she fart fourteen times while we were sleeping in the same room?
Maybe that random "scientific" site is not so accurate, but from my personal experience, farting fourteen times a day sounds pretty on target. Maybe that's because I try to be a good child and eat my veggies, gulping down my daily (and sometimes extra) doses of cauliflower, corn, and beans, all which have been notorious for their fart-producing power. So probably I'm supposed to fart more than the average fourteen times, but I don't. I would think I even farted less than fourteen times a day sometimes. Why? Because like most people, I didn't fart in public. I found it one of the most embarrassing things a human could possibly do in society.
Constantly restraining from farting around others had been troublesome for me I admit, especially when I am almost always around people. Not only has the restraint caused me stress, but also lead me to suffer anxiety. I don't mean to cause embarrassment for anyone by talking about this personal issue, but I think the idea provides a good lesson. Why do people get embarrassed and make it harder for themselves (like in the case of farting) when they know everybody else in the world does such biological necessities?
Unlike many self-conscious people in the world, my mother farts whenever she pleases. You wouldn't expect her to fart either. A clean well-dressed middle-aged woman with minor visages of makeup, my mother looks like every other well-mannered average citizen of a respectable state. Yet, she farts. She did not release those tiny farts that no animal or person would hear either, she lets out those loud, flatulence-filled, big bang sort of farts that everyone would hear. When I was young, I hated standing next to my mother while we stood in the grocery line waiting to buy groceries. I remember every time she would give a big gurglemeister, all the people in line would turn to look down at me because they thought I, a child with messy looking hair and spotted overalls, not my mother, a well-mannered average citizen of a respectable citizen, would perform such a social atrocity. My face would heat up in embarrassment, and after my mother and I would leave the store, I would always get angry at her for farting because I myself, tried so hard not to fart in public.
Now, after all those days surviving anxiety attacks, I concluded that restraining from farting was not worth all the trouble. It was like trying to hide a big part of who I am - human. My wise mom always said that every human farts, so who would blame her for farting. Before, I always said I would blame her, but now I understand I shouldn't since I do it too.
Unfortunately, I would imagine that there are a lot more other people in the world that went through similar situations like me, so I would like to help society rid these ridiculous social embarrassments. I want to help people be comfortable with who they are. People should be free to fart, pick their noses, sing their hearts out, and wax their ears if they need to. Doing those things is not too harmful to society, and it's good for the person. Why not do those things for your own personal benefit? Maybe society doesn't accept these obvious human needs in public since our leaders don't do them. I have never seen Bush or Obama fart or pick their noses in public. Someone has to take that extra step and do what other people have not yet discovered the courage to do. I want to be that someone. So I urge you to give it a try now, and let the next person take a whiff of your true smell from the inside.
This is for the common application topic of choice. Need to shorten about 150words. any suggestions? I was going for originality. Would this work for common app? im applying to ivy leagues. i need grammar checks too please! i have horrible grammar
ps: i would be sure to read yours if you read mine. thanks!
According to a random "scientific" site I found online after googling "farting statistics," an average person passes gas fourteen times daily. Fourteen times! I have been with a person (like a friend) the whole day (hangouts during the day and sleepovers at night), and I do not think I heard my friend fart once. Which leads me to wonder, did that person go to the bathroom to secretly fart fourteen times or did he or she fart fourteen times while we were sleeping in the same room?
Maybe that random "scientific" site is not so accurate, but from my personal experience, farting fourteen times a day sounds pretty on target. Maybe that's because I try to be a good child and eat my veggies, gulping down my daily (and sometimes extra) doses of cauliflower, corn, and beans, all which have been notorious for their fart-producing power. So probably I'm supposed to fart more than the average fourteen times, but I don't. I would think I even farted less than fourteen times a day sometimes. Why? Because like most people, I didn't fart in public. I found it one of the most embarrassing things a human could possibly do in society.
Constantly restraining from farting around others had been troublesome for me I admit, especially when I am almost always around people. Not only has the restraint caused me stress, but also lead me to suffer anxiety. I don't mean to cause embarrassment for anyone by talking about this personal issue, but I think the idea provides a good lesson. Why do people get embarrassed and make it harder for themselves (like in the case of farting) when they know everybody else in the world does such biological necessities?
Unlike many self-conscious people in the world, my mother farts whenever she pleases. You wouldn't expect her to fart either. A clean well-dressed middle-aged woman with minor visages of makeup, my mother looks like every other well-mannered average citizen of a respectable state. Yet, she farts. She did not release those tiny farts that no animal or person would hear either, she lets out those loud, flatulence-filled, big bang sort of farts that everyone would hear. When I was young, I hated standing next to my mother while we stood in the grocery line waiting to buy groceries. I remember every time she would give a big gurglemeister, all the people in line would turn to look down at me because they thought I, a child with messy looking hair and spotted overalls, not my mother, a well-mannered average citizen of a respectable citizen, would perform such a social atrocity. My face would heat up in embarrassment, and after my mother and I would leave the store, I would always get angry at her for farting because I myself, tried so hard not to fart in public.
Now, after all those days surviving anxiety attacks, I concluded that restraining from farting was not worth all the trouble. It was like trying to hide a big part of who I am - human. My wise mom always said that every human farts, so who would blame her for farting. Before, I always said I would blame her, but now I understand I shouldn't since I do it too.
Unfortunately, I would imagine that there are a lot more other people in the world that went through similar situations like me, so I would like to help society rid these ridiculous social embarrassments. I want to help people be comfortable with who they are. People should be free to fart, pick their noses, sing their hearts out, and wax their ears if they need to. Doing those things is not too harmful to society, and it's good for the person. Why not do those things for your own personal benefit? Maybe society doesn't accept these obvious human needs in public since our leaders don't do them. I have never seen Bush or Obama fart or pick their noses in public. Someone has to take that extra step and do what other people have not yet discovered the courage to do. I want to be that someone. So I urge you to give it a try now, and let the next person take a whiff of your true smell from the inside.
