I wrote this essay like a year ago without much thought & I just wanted to see if it worked for this prompt. I have yet to edit it or change it completely. Please give harsh feedback. Also, it’s way over 400 words so I could definitely condense it.
Explain your inIf you’re applying to the Division of General Studies, explain your academic interests and strengths or your future career goals. You may include any majors or areas of study you’re currently considering. Limit your response to 300 to 400 words.
How Trolls Changed My Life
It was one-hundred and fifty degrees outside. Okay, that may be an exaggeration, but this is Arizona we’re discussing.
I’m packed with a bunch of immature seventh graders in a library room that look like it was meant for preschoolers. The librarian is speaking about the “new” book selection while my teacher is in the corner probably updating her status or whatever it is teachers do when they do not have to deal with students.
Then, the librarian sends everyone on a scavenger hunt to discover which book peaks their interest. There was only one thing on my mind: food. After playing “Spring” all period on the violin in Orchestra, that is all I can think about.
I decide to take a five minute break from my food deprived daydream when I notice that a quarter of the students magically disappeared. I then decide to look around the library to find a book quickly so I could go enjoy the lettuce-on-a-bun that the school apparently considers “food” and go on with the rest of my day.
However, I could not find anything remotely interesting. All the books were about sports, high school drama, something about how Presidents slayed vampires. The latter actually sounded interesting, however, I decided that it was not for me.
I looked around for a long time, so long, in fact, that my class had ended, leaving me behind. I decide to ask the actually young librarian-who did not shush me for talking-for assistance because that is basically what they are there for. She asked my what my interests were, what I usually like to read, my hobbies, etc. And me, a young girl who never liked books, had no clue at all. I think she felt bad for me because of my lack of “book knowledge” and just decided to pick out books for me.
After what felt like an hour, she picked out this book, Switched by Amanda Hocking, with a brunette in a white dress holding a red-orange flower against a red background on the cover. The cover made the book look cool, however, when she told me the book was about trolls, I wanted to throw it across the room. Really? A book about trolls?
She apparently was tired of me and checked the book out and pushed me out the door in as little as twenty seconds.
It took me a full week to actually start the book after I had learned that we would be graded for completing the book. I would have picked a smaller book if I had known.
The book actually started out good. Good turned into great, great turned into amazing, and … you get the point. The whole book was a rollercoaster, she finds out she’s a ■■■■■-not the green poofy haired trolls-and is actually a princess. She has to return to her home land to meet her mother and starts to develop a crush on her creepy, stalker, next door neighbor and so on. It was so good that I had to turn nocturnal to devour each page.
The book left me on a cliffhanger, which I loathed. I marched into the library the very next morning and demanded the next book in the Trylle series. The librarian actually remembered me and handed it over without hesitation because she probably had developed a silent hatred for me.
I do not blame her.
After that experience, I craved more; more books, more drama, more fictional characters to fall in love with. Too many books, too little time. My obsession grew rapidly. I discovered that I could read a three-hundred paged book in less than a day. Books in the young adult genre are what keep me up at night. My love for reading has still not faded and I love to get my hands on new books whenever I can.