Free College Admissions Essays: Unspoken Words

My love of reading blossomed when I was a child, because my parents showed me how wonderful reading is. There were countless nights when I remember myself as a little girl refusing to go to sleep before ‘tucking dad into bed’ by reading him a picture book. Not only did I uphold that tradition though, but my mother is a preschool teacher, so she gets really into reading out loud, and she would help me read books such as The Boxcar Children set, The Secret of NIMH and The Chronicles of Narnia weekly until I didn’t need help anymore.

Many people have various valuable items that they cherish, some only have a few but everyone has that one thing that hey hold close to their heart over everything. My one item happens to be a necklace that my papa got me for Christmas right after he was diagnosed with liver cancer. This necklace means so much to me because of the character behind it, the many feelings it gives me and the heartfelt memories behind this one simple gift.

While you grow up through school, you hear over and over that college is a must if you want to land a good job as an adult. That seems reasonable, I have to get a higher education to get a job with more money and potential. Then comes junior year and you go to look at schools and you see the price of tuition. Everything changes, college isn’t just a dream anymore it's a burden.

I do not believe that I deserve this twenty-five thousand more than anybody else in my

I believe in inspiration. I believe one to be open minded and to be inspired, or serve as inspiration. I believe in progress to be linked hand-in-hand with inspiration.

I have a job at Bojangles’. I believe Bojangles’ is a positive influence because it gives me an opportunity to think passively. This has been a great help because I otherwise don’t have many opportunities in my life that allow me to ‘zone out’ while still being productive. This is also a positive influence on my self-esteem because I am able to do something productive and meaningful on a regular basis without it costing me much effort.

Many Americans believe the solution for our lack of education, of which the trend for numbers of people attaining a college education is increasing, is free college. Although the fact there are still thousands of Americans with no college education can not be denied, the solution for this should not be to introduce free college education. Many people criticize those who do not believe in this free college education as being simple minded, and never knowing the struggle of debt, however if these people were to look deeply into the matter they too could see free college is not a suitable way to increase education levels.

Every day we meet people, we say hello, and we hear two words that ultimately get lodged in our head. We tie those two words to a person's face. Later as we see this person more we learn to associate certain characteristics with those two simple words – smart, bold, beautiful. These two words? Their name. Emily Dunn, a name I first encountered my junior year of high school when a cheery eyed, enthusiastic, and brilliant girl walked into my Algebra Two class and sat next to me. Little did I know that I would come to associate words like – brilliant, humble, and ambitious - with two simple words. Emily

When I was little I hated ELA. I wasn't a fan of reading or writing. I think the reason was because I didn't have an interest in it. But then I thought to myself that ELA will always be with me. So the first book I was actually was interested were the Magic Tree House books. They changed my whole perspective of reading. I was in third grade when I started actually becoming more interested in books, which was a positive thing because every time I finish a book I felt accomplished. The problem about writing for me when I was younger was that I didn't like grammar. I was a terrible speller and I still am but it's a working progress now, but I was just not grasping how to spell words. Part of that was because I wasn't reading as much as I was supposed to.

Some people absolutely dread English class. It could be the forty-five minute class that ruins their day. This could be because of a previous paper they got a bad grade on, a teacher they didn’t like, or because they never learned to love it. This is not the case for me.

I have always hated the question “where are you from” because it implies that only one place defines a person and that is not the case for most people. I grew up in Clearwater, Florida for half of my life and I spent the second half of my in Jacksonville. I consider both places home for different reasons therefore I guess that I’m “from” both cities. Family is very important to me, so being two hours away from home was a major bonus while choosing Florida State. However I chose to attend Florida State University mainly because it was right after my dream school on the list of colleges that accepted me and home of my family’s favorite college football team, the Seminoles. My whole life the idea that FSU was the best school academically and athletically was hammered into my head. I wore garnet and gold before

Three things that describe me is Smart, determined, and a overachiever. There are many other things that make me the person I am. I feel that there is no such thing as weird and the word normal is overrated. Everyone feels that they are normal, but to some that person’s normal may be strange. I love reading huge books that may take other people weeks to read, singing, and having things organized in a certain way.

As a small child, many adjectives defined me. ‘Timid’ was never among these. My mother recalls countless conversations about “Stranger Danger” after I struck up dialogues with the parents of other children on the playground. If the comfort zone is represented by an invisible box, mine spanned entire cities by the time I was in second grade as I made friends with nearly every human being I came into contact with. I had no way of knowing that my box was about to be drastically downsized.

Guarantees? I don’t think so. Imagine waking up one day to find that your perspective of life has changed. All that you thought would be real or a given in your world no longer existed. If we are the least bit wise we all know and accept that life will always carry risks. Expectations may be dashed in an instant.

I am an African-American Jewish girl adopted and raised by two white moms. My environment taught me the importance of inclusion. As one of the few African-American females at Lincoln High School, life was difficult for me at the beginning of freshman year, because my friends from elementary and middle school began excluding me from activities, lunch plans, and social events. I still don’t really know why this happened. Maybe they thought I wasn’t smart or cool enough, or maybe because I am black. I eventually made other friends, but this experience taught me the devastating impact of being excluded. At the end of freshman year, I joined the Black Student Union (BSU) and Jewish Student Union (JSU). I felt very welcomed, like I belonged. This