Free College Admissions Essays: Two Choices

The moment occurred and I felt a rush: a rush of terror and adrenaline. I was having fun then the next minute I heard the screaming from my sister. Feeling the beads of sweat drip down my neck I’m not sure if it’s the heat or the fear. The next few minutes felt like a lifetime from hearing my sister cry out to acting out a scene from Baywatch. I looked into the crashing waves to see Silus, a young boy of only seven years, in the water and knowing though we were only five feet away from the lifeguard zone I had to be the one to save him. I sprinted down the beach and plunged into the rough waters. Fighting the treacherous waves, swimming to the young boy, and raising him above the waves crashing overhead. I drag myself and the boy out of the water placing him onto the warm sand. I check to make sure the boy was unharmed, assisting him with clearing the saltwater out his

Community college should be free for all students who want to attend school. There should be a set of rules applied to those that would take advantage of this privilege. In the United States, there are not very many programs that offer the opportunity for students to attend free colleges like other countries have. Some examples of the countries are Norway, Finland, Sweden, Germany and France. The U.S. does have some programs that offer free tuition. For example Tennessee offers free tuition to students. The Tennessee Promise is a scholarship program that pays for your community college so you can go there tuition free. Another program is the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) in New York at the City University of New York. Community colleges should be free because it would not only attract more students, but would help students to focus more on school rather than thinking about how they are going to pay for their education. However, we need guidelines for applicants to attend such as maintaining a high GPA, giving back through community services hours, and other rules and guidelines to attract students that would continue to excel in their education and not waste the opportunity given to them to work towards a good career and give back.

Our “man in the water”, put his life at stake. Every time the rescue team lowered a lifeline and floatation ring to the man, he gave it to the other strangers. “ For at some moment in the water he must have realized that he would not live if he continued to hand over the rope and the ring to others.” When our “man in the water” realized that he had to choose between life and helping the strangers, he picked the more honorable decision, thus responsible for helping save four lives for the price of his own.

Sometimes the hardest decisions are the most important, and are the ones that shape and sculpt your journey through life. Whenever I am faced with a dilemma, like whether to start a new episode of The Office on Netflix or to proofread my global history essay, I remember to take a step back to better analyze the situation which, at times can change my perspective.

"You have to make choices even when there's nothing to choose from" (Péter Zilahy). This was the situation 16 year old Piscini Pi Patel had to endure during the 227 days he was stranded at sea. In the novel Life of Pi by Yaan Mantel, Patel is faced with a choice to make-to live or not to live? After losing everything and everyone he cared for, Pi was repeatedly faced with this life changing decision, literally! Using the techniques symbolic vampirism, biblical implications, and metaphorical blindness administered by Thomas C. Foster in his book How to Read Literature Like a Professor, the journey of Pi's survival is mutually experienced with the reader and the protagonist himself. Furthermore, they're the reasoning behind Pi's conclusive choice,

Groggy and bleary-eyed, I walk on over to make a very important decision - one with potentially serious ramifications. So many factors play into this decision, yet I have such little time to choose - 5 minutes if I'm lucky. I approach the door and mentally prepare myself. Whew. Here we go...

Swim. My instincts kicked in. If I had any hope of getting away from this shark, bigger than any reef shark I had ever seen in the tropical waters off Queensland, I needed to move now. I took a huge lungful of breath and swam faster than I ever had before. I sent shoals of fish scattering as I hurtled towards the beach. I swam until I thought my lungs would burst.

Sometime in life, we are given impossible choice that we must make. Philippa Foot gives us two thought experiments to think about. The experiments are called Rescue I and Rescue II. In Rescue I, we are given a scenario where we are on our way to save a group of five people from an ocean tide. But on the way to save them, we hear someone else that needs help, just one person, and because we only have a limited amount of time, we must decide on who we are going to rescue. In Rescue II, the scenario is that we are still on our way to save the group of five, and the road there is rocky and narrow and we come across someone trapped on the path. If we stop to help, then it will be too late to save the group of five people, or we could run over the

Every day people all over the world share a several universal experiences, and the most common one of these is choices. Life is made up of choices. I believe life is just a series of decisions we make, and depending on our choice, must live with the result of that decision. The choices usually consist of a multitude of possibilities and, whether real or imagined, we must recognize that in some way the decision will change our life forever. Therein lies the rub. Because there are so many factors involved with our decision-making and with its unknown result, many of us hesitate to even make a choice, thinking it would be safer and that we 'd be better off where we are instead of delving into the unknown. Just think of how many events in

Making decisions can be easy at times when it does not require much thought; however, it can be complicated, especially when it involves people 's lives. If, for instance, there is a boat holding seventy-five people but it should only hold fifty in order to ensure the safety of the passengers and lessen the risk of the boat sinking, who will be asked to leave the boat? There are also one hundred individuals in the water whose lives must be considered; what can be done in a tight situation such as this one where time is not in your hands? It is important to remember only fifty people can be saved while one hundred and twenty-five individuals might die. This can prove to be a strenuous and gut-wrenching challenge. There are several different

I have had many tough decisions in my short 14 years of living in this world. Some as small as, what i’m going to eat for lunch. To, which prep school I will go to when I am in 10th grade. But one of my recent tough choices that has 2 different paths of success was a very grooved process.

When leaping into the water from a high rock, these feelings come rushing through me. The bittersweet fight of my instincts take control and I am torn between the safety of land and the thrill of the air. I convince myself to be fearless always take the leap. I step out to the very edge and feel the world narrow to this one moment. I swallow my fear only to feel my heart beating out of my chest. I jump instantly questioning why I chose the danger when could have stayed

I should have never ever even had the idea of going in the ocean but… of course I just had to go in. I would have never imagined the horrors I was about to experience. All these thoughts keeping racing through my mind. What do I do? How can I escape? Will I live? I’m trying so hard to keep calm but that’s a little hard when there is a gigantic shark trying to kill me.

After struggling for survival for days upon the open ocean, the happenstantial crew of the dinghy finally catch sight of land only to have their hopes dashed. No help is forthcoming and their boat will not reach shore. To swim is to imperil their lives and cast their fates as dice. On a reflective night as a shark swims near the boat, this passage of examination marks

Adventure and risks are not a part of my life. The boat’s captains included five men. Each man had a beard and browned skin from all their time in the sun. Sunglasses rested on each of their eyes, shielding them from the bright, hot sun. The boat engines loud roar came to a stop, only the waves crashing against the boat made a sound. The oldest of the five men spoke first. He lifted a crooked, dark finger and held it over the left side of the boat and exclaimed in a gruff voice, “The cage is over there and you will need to swim in 15 yards of free water to get to it. If the sharks come at you just hit their nose.” Looks of terror graced every traveler’s face. The looks didn’t fade until another one of the boat’s crew spoke up telling us that the older man played that joke on every tour group. I studied the man