<p>I've got two essays:</p>
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<li>"October 17, 2006 – the date on which I received a birthday gift that would change my life." </li>
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<p>(that one's about the influence of Stephen Colbert on my life, and his show premiered on my birthday)</p>
<p>and</p>
<ol>
<li>"Buddha perches in front of a giant wooden cross and next to a pink polka-dotted dog that towers over him."</li>
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<p>^Haha, I really like your second opening line, magneticpoet~!</p>
<p>I like this thread.</p>
<p>There was once a time where if articles of clothing could be considered enemies, the v-neck tee would have been my arch-nemesis.</p>
<p>Its the Ambiguously Gay Duo!</p>
<p>I clung to my mothers red hair and peeked out at the television from behind the strands.</p>
<p>(SNL skit)</p>
<p>"I must confess: I am an addict."</p>
<p>"Although I had spent months engineering my campaign for State President to be the most comprehensive that New Jersey Future Business Leaders of America had ever seen, Cohan vs. Cohen was a challenge for which I had never prepared."</p>
<p>"I surveyed the wreckage."</p>
<p>"I love Wawa milk."</p>
<p>This thread is awesome.
"I will never become the president of the United States."</p>
<p>"Dear [University],
In my efforts to gain admission to your fine institution, I have written (and discarded) a great deal of crap."</p>
<p>"When I was just 17 years old, I ran away from home."</p>
<p>"Imagine waking up one day and not being able to move your arms and legs, or even speak, as you used to."</p>
<p>On an essay chronicling my life as an allegory to a sentence:</p>
<p>"A sentence usually begins with a capital letter, a declarative grapheme that shakes the reader from his inattention and forces him to focus on the events at hand. This notion lends itself well to the beginning of my life, a spectacle of blood and nudity which was wholly impossible to ignore."</p>
<p>@wasabi16sj, I think your sentence would be much more effective if you left out the words "as you used to," since the reader can infer that from the rest of the sentence.</p>
<p>"It is ultimately your decision to make, my mother said in a faint voice."</p>
<p>"The security guard appeared relieved."</p>
<p>"Conciseness."</p>
<p>Wow..I'm really hoping that this thread is insanely self-selected. I was sort of banking on the fact that I heard that 90% of college essays were absolute crap lol.</p>
<p>i like these :)</p>
<p>setzer557: This whole forum is self-selected! Duh!</p>
<p>"Nigger Nigger!" the kids screamed as they threw their hurtful, hate-filled pebbles at me.</p>
<p>:) It was for a friend who wrote an essay but couldn't find a way to capture emotion in his first sentence. I think i fixed his problem, no? heheh.</p>
<p>"the applause is deafening; the atmosphere is electric; and my emotions are soaring"</p>
<p>"The nurse swabs the crook of my elbow and twists a tourniquet around my arm."</p>
<p>"I ate a ham sandwich today, and boy was it delicious. Delicious, I tell you!"</p>
<p>lmfao thats hilarious</p>