Post Your Opening Lines!

College Essays
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<p>"The fruit fly offered me a quizzical look, which I returned in kind."</p>

<p>About my research experience at a microbiology laboratory.</p>

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<p>I'm not sure if I'm going to end up doing my essay on politics, but if I do, which do you think is the better opener:</p>

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My hand immediately shot up, an affirmative response to the teacher’s question. However, I quickly realized that my arm was the lone one in the air. The inquiry: “How many of you think you would vote differently than your parents?” It took an innocent question from a freshman year English teacher to make me realize that not everyone rebels against their parents politically.

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<p>[^I'll definitely end up tweaking this.]</p>

<p>or</p>

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[quote]
It all started when I voted for Bill Clinton in kindergarten.

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<p>?</p>

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<p>blinkangel 44 i like the Clinton opener.</p>

<p>heres mine:
There are certain moments in my life that I beg every single living, breathing brain cell to commit to memory. </p>

<p>too ... "dramatic"?</p>

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<p>^I think being dramatic is the purpose! Haha. You need to make a great first impression.</p>

<p>As for mine, right now, I have it in the order it's in right now (so the first opening is my first paragraph, then the Clinton line is the first sentence of my second paragraph). If I were to start off with the Clinton reference, I think I'd make the other part a bit less dramatized... hmmmm...</p>

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<p>On second thought I rather not share my openning line. I'm paranoid...yeah I know :D</p>

26

<p>"I was lost in the peace."</p>

27

<p>"Ever since I was a kid I wondered why Jesus had a belly button."</p>

28

<p>"Lungs aching, feet wobbling, and throat urning, I nearly collapsed"</p>

29

<p>"INFP" sdgdsgdfhdfhdf</p>

30

<p>"Ever since I was a kid I wondered why men had nipples."</p>

31

<p>ahhh rojo, I see you too are into personality taxonomy a la Myers-Briggs</p>

32

<p>""GTFO" said the noob-hating 1337 haxor, a subtle, but notable spittle coming through the cracks of his lips as he yelled."</p>

33

<p>"The routine: I take off my shoes outside and push through the screen door which makes a ring as it taps the bell over the rim. I am greeted by the red eyes of a poly-limbed deity with an elephant’s head on the wall. "</p>

<p>"Why do Koreans eat dogs? "</p>

<p>haha</p>

34

<p>“…Dr. Nirav Patel will be with you momentarily…” </p>

<p>note: I am Nirav Patel lol</p>

35

<p>"I shrug, bashfully. “You are my heart's—” The horn blows, trapping the word “desire” behind my lips."</p>

<p>Final moments of a play I performed in.</p>

36

<p>"I stood under the scorching Texas sun, staring at an old wooden barn. "</p>

<p>It's about TASP.</p>

37

<p>The wind whispered, California, and the exhilaration ran through me.</p>

38

<p>There is something highly engrossing about trawling through several thousand pages of code, trying to find that single line that you know is somewhere, but not quite what it looks like. Ok, perhaps not...</p>

<p>I am addicted to outdoor “high adventure;” The experience of escaping the city, heading out into the Great Outdoors, and appreciating the wilderness is one I prize above many others.</p>

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<p>"Imagine 1000 lines of code in front of yourself as in The Matrix."</p>

<p>I know it's not that great.</p>

40

<p>"Occasionally, my wild and irrational side calls – which in extreme circumstances leaves me dancing around, jabbering like a monkey or a maniac, or both."</p>

<p>Don't be alarmed! I'm not a loonatic! :D</p>