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'at least one activity that dominated my time' - Most Interesting Experience Essay


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Nov 15, 2011   #1
The prompt: tell us about your most interesting experience. 500 word max. There are bracketed portions that mark potential different directions or ideas...

Let me know what you think needs to change. This thing is a mess, sadly.

My junior year was hectic. Each day of the week had at least one activity that dominated my time, two when possible. Marching band on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; orchestra on Sunday, science and math competitions on Saturday; lessons on Wednesday; jazz band each morning and clubs in the space before marching band. I was busy, unorganized and my intentions to reform motivated action inconsistently. My friend, Jason, was also discontentedly ineffective. While discussing our efforts, he reminded me that New Year's resolutions are the poster-child for unrealized dreams. We decided most resolvers abandon their projects because their goals have a murky delineation. If we wanted to buck the norm and achieve our goals, our resolve must be substantial and focused.

During this autumn conversation, we conceived The Thanksgiving Compact which we then shared with our friend Nolan. Together, we conspired to improve ourselves; intending to raise our grades, breakdance with swag, dominate the AMC, and socialize fluently. We drafted a rough outline in a week and spent the vacation detailing its diction. Each of us picked goals and committed to written schedules; the rest reviewed these declarations of intent, checking for clarity and practicality. When progress ceased, so did my friends' resolve.

Though perhaps forgotten by my cosigners, the precepts of the compact affected me profoundly. After the drafting, I kept considering my own goals, especially the goal to recognize everyday adventure opportunities, and in the past two years I've adventured more than in my first sixteen combined. Many of these would have never occurred without the compact's psychology.

The time I got lost with Michael and we wifi'd our way home, exploring the streets of Atlanta with Jason, the weekend on campus with Nolan at Tech, and self-studying the AP Pysch and AP Macro exams with Bennett are all adventures that were motivated by the compact. Even my experiences with the Milton orchestra through Matthew, hosting a graduation party with Jonathan, and meeting my best friend, Larissa, have all been a result of the compact.

[discussing different kinds of adventures rather than specific ones, maybe one of each? intellectual, etc.
The compact has lead me to intellectual adventures, social enrichment and physical challenges. From self-studying AP Pysch and AP Macro with Nolan to a Fitocracy level race with Andrey, ]

More recently, I have used the management skills I acquired to sail through sixteen hours of courses this summer while covering the physics required for my directed study of quantum field theory this fall. This fall I completed the schedule for 8.20, as posted in OCW, to enrich my modern physics course and I have been working on the psets from 18.100 to develop mathematical maturity, while taking a twenty hour load. My success these past two semesters is defined by my new mentality for goal setting, which is [something compact].

The experiences I've had as a result of the compact have become the core of my fondest memories That is why I believe that its creation is the most interesting, if not the most important thing to ever happen to me.
Wytkewicz27 1 / 4  
Nov 18, 2011   #2
Most interesting experiance includes only one experience not an expanded time period of your life. for experiance you can put (this is made up) but finding a spider in your shoe throwing it against a wall running away and coming back seeing it was gone. and nobody cares about your friends it is about you trying to get into college not them.cosigners big words sometimes are not the best thing to use. this does not flow well with the rest of your essay.


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