In addition to the essay you have written for the Common Application, please select one of the following themes and write an essay of about 500 words in response. Please do not repeat, in full or in part, the essay you wrote for the Common Application.
Please do not double space your essay.
Option 4 - Using a favorite quotation from an essay or book you have read in the last three years as a jumping off point, tell us about an event or experience that helped you define one of your values or changed how you approach the world. Please write the quotation at the beginning of your essay.
"What do I know of life? What of myself?
I know not even my own work past or present..."
From the above quote, taken from the poem "Prayer of Columbus" written by Walt Whitman in his book "Leaves of Grass", I ask, what do we truly know?
"And badah-bing" I found myself declaring as I finished my sixth "masterpiece" It had taken me over a month to complete, but I think that my beached sailboat perfectly complimented the rest of my oil painting. As usual my art teacher meandered up to my table of free expression to comment on my finished production. Like a broken record player, she repeated the same phrase that she would always tell to me, "I really like how you choose different colors to represent your mood", but then she unexpectedly exclaimed, "but I just cannot understand why you would color the sky dark pink!" At first I perplexedly sat there and looked back at her. I was utterly confused. I hadn't painted the sky pink; to me, it was clearly a midnight blue. I had never quite knew what she meant by how I was "choosing different colors". I always felt that I had portrayed the original object with grave detail. Two Google searches and a quiz later we had come to the answer to all of our confusion. I was, and still am, partially colorblind.
It was like a door had been slammed in my face. In the two seconds that it took for the web browser to load, my entire world changed. I was set apart and couldn't see what everyone else could see. The world that I know was completely different from the world that the majority of society knows. For what felt like the longest time, I believed that I was at a disadvantage. I felt that I was inferior to those that could see shades of colors, and that they had the upper hand. I have realized that is an untrue thought. Ninety-two percent of the human population sees what they interpret to be the "proper colors". The other eight percent, that I am a part of, see the world in a different light, literally. This sets me apart from the crowd; it creates my own world, in which I am the only one who sees color the way that my eyes perceive it. There is no one else in the world with the same vision as me. This gives me the advantage. This allows me to perceive certain things in an entirely different way, that an individual with normal vision cannot.
That fateful day in art has taught me a valuable lesson, as well as allowed me to see the world in an entirely different scope. I do not know everything, and there is no way that I possibly can. Life is more than knowing everything. Life is seeing in a different perspective, and, in my case, at times a completely different color.
please help me, sending soon! I will write back i promise!
Please do not double space your essay.
Option 4 - Using a favorite quotation from an essay or book you have read in the last three years as a jumping off point, tell us about an event or experience that helped you define one of your values or changed how you approach the world. Please write the quotation at the beginning of your essay.
"What do I know of life? What of myself?
I know not even my own work past or present..."
From the above quote, taken from the poem "Prayer of Columbus" written by Walt Whitman in his book "Leaves of Grass", I ask, what do we truly know?
"And badah-bing" I found myself declaring as I finished my sixth "masterpiece" It had taken me over a month to complete, but I think that my beached sailboat perfectly complimented the rest of my oil painting. As usual my art teacher meandered up to my table of free expression to comment on my finished production. Like a broken record player, she repeated the same phrase that she would always tell to me, "I really like how you choose different colors to represent your mood", but then she unexpectedly exclaimed, "but I just cannot understand why you would color the sky dark pink!" At first I perplexedly sat there and looked back at her. I was utterly confused. I hadn't painted the sky pink; to me, it was clearly a midnight blue. I had never quite knew what she meant by how I was "choosing different colors". I always felt that I had portrayed the original object with grave detail. Two Google searches and a quiz later we had come to the answer to all of our confusion. I was, and still am, partially colorblind.
It was like a door had been slammed in my face. In the two seconds that it took for the web browser to load, my entire world changed. I was set apart and couldn't see what everyone else could see. The world that I know was completely different from the world that the majority of society knows. For what felt like the longest time, I believed that I was at a disadvantage. I felt that I was inferior to those that could see shades of colors, and that they had the upper hand. I have realized that is an untrue thought. Ninety-two percent of the human population sees what they interpret to be the "proper colors". The other eight percent, that I am a part of, see the world in a different light, literally. This sets me apart from the crowd; it creates my own world, in which I am the only one who sees color the way that my eyes perceive it. There is no one else in the world with the same vision as me. This gives me the advantage. This allows me to perceive certain things in an entirely different way, that an individual with normal vision cannot.
That fateful day in art has taught me a valuable lesson, as well as allowed me to see the world in an entirely different scope. I do not know everything, and there is no way that I possibly can. Life is more than knowing everything. Life is seeing in a different perspective, and, in my case, at times a completely different color.
please help me, sending soon! I will write back i promise!
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