<p>“Harvard, light of my life, fire of my loins”</p>
<p>"It is commonly said amongst the (my highschool’s name here) girl’s tennis team that “in tennis, love is nothing”…</p>
<p>[essay about how tennis has developed me as a person]</p>
<p>It was, and still is, an obsession only rivaled by that of Lady Macbeth.</p>
<p>“The dust bunnies were multiplying like rabbits.” </p>
<p>^ my favorite one so far. oh anf I forgot how to use the quote box sorry</p>
<p>What is 3 x 4?</p>
<p>lol i really wanna read some of these now…which means they’re working!! haha
did anyone like mine??</p>
<p>“Oh geez, not another breakout”</p>
<p>My concentration was shattered, my body so restless, the trembling ceaseless.</p>
<p>Nothing on this planet is more intoxicating than nature. It is capable of invoking nonpareil feelings of rapport and humility and circulating the currents of creativity flowing in each of us. Nature is humanity’s little black dress, accentuating its greatest and most impressive features.</p>
<p>“We met behind school at quarter to three.”</p>
<p>I woke up this morning and realized that the aliens had performed experimental tests on me while I was asleep.</p>
<p>True story</p>
<p>“Every summer, I surround myself with dead people.”</p>
<p>Intro: “The lights are unbearbly bright and my hands are sweaty. I glance up from my shoes and look straight into the shining red light on the camera directly opposite me. In my twelve years of life, I have never been this nervous, and I wonder what I have gotten myself into. A cacophony of discordant music suddenly blares from overheard and the announcer’s voice exuberantly cries, “This is Jeopardy!” There is no turning back now.” </p>
<p>“I was the most diverse member of my elementary school graduating class: I was not Dutch and did not have a Lake Michigan cottage.” (University of Michigan)</p>
<p>Meh, they’re okay. I’m still trying to clinch that perfect combination of nerdiness, eloquence, and insight.</p>
<p>“And so I made a bet my mom that if I got a 2500 on my SAT the second time around, she would pay me back the test fee”</p>
<p>Bathroom thinking is highly underrated. Too often the bathroom is looked down upon by people – like my parents, as a very crude and unhygienic place to think. To them, you should go into the bathroom, do what you must, and promptly get out. I think it’s safe to say that I strongly disagree with the notion that the bathroom is only useful for fulfilling physiological needs.</p>
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<p>Just FYI in case you didn’t mean to: that’s a rip of a well known essay in “50 Essays That Worked”, where the opening paragraph starts with “I do some of my best thinking in the bathroom.”</p>
<p>If you did mean to, you’ll be rejected in an instant.</p>
<p>@emachined. That is a stupid bet…</p>
<p>“Shoes? These shoes? You’re right, they’re not mine; this pair of tanned, leather moccasins is my father’s, and if you haven’t noticed, they’re just a size or two too big.”</p>
<p>A ghastly smile converts my face into a grimace.</p>
<p>i’ve never read the essay but i’ve heard there was an essay about the same topic…i didnt know it was so similar though…</p>
<p>common app:</p>
<p>" ‘Sh- sheeeer ka- ka- oo… Sheer kaka-o?’ "</p>
<p>(it means chocolate milk in persian. if you were wondering, the line that follows is:
"The chunk of chocolate cake perched on my mother’s fork trembled as it came to a standstill halfway between her plate and her palate. "</p>
<p>page 217 of my autobiography essay for penn:</p>
<p>“and turned the crudely drawn map upside-down – or was it right-side-up?”</p>
<p>for the one asking about your academic/social communities for penn i put:</p>
<p>"My family often nostalgically reminds me of how I used to ‘run straight up the walls’. "</p>
<p>the line that follows is:</p>
<p>"This Persian idiom, (not too unlike the English phrase ‘driving someone up the wall’) referred to my inability to ever sit still. "</p>
<p>commentsss?? i know it sounds like i bring in the persian thing alot. but i dont really haha.</p>
<p>It was the best of times, It was the worst of times. </p>
<p>How cheesy can this get? ;)</p>
<p>“My long-time friend noticed when my life had become an extended sigh, when I was complaining that the things I had once done, and from which I had gained recognition from others, were all gone.”</p>