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MIT essay
MIT essay
College Admissions · 497 words
  • I may seem to be someone with many unconnected facets and talents once you have read all the other essays on this application. This essay is intended to slap together a few of the pieces of myself that I have displayed here. The human race is immortal ( that was a doozy...


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Lots of talk no walk
Lots of talk no walk
College Admissions · 473 words
  • The team filed into the locker room at halftime. Everyone was discouraged, upset because we were losing by thirty points. ?Hey boys, we?ve gotta step it up and we gotta step it up right now. No more messin? around. Let's put forty points on the board and...


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Long Trip
Long Trip
College Admissions · 711 words
  • Among the defining affairs in my life, the most poignant is an ill history that has taken place overseas, boldly prompted to my eyes and beginning prior to my birth. It is this dire event, replete with poverty and ignorance, that fuels my ambitions for justice and equity....


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Logic and the Meaning of Life
Logic and the Meaning of Life
College Admissions · 2,128 words
  • In approaching the meaning of life we have to examine the nature of meaning itself. Meaning is by definition the point, or the intended goal. Consider the point of humans and the universe as seen from monotheistic religion. If life and the universe is...


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Influencial person
Influencial person
College Admissions · 393 words
  • Be Proud Of Who You Are My grandmother was born at a time when the Japanese had invaded Korea. At those times girls were not considered to be very important and guys were valued. That hasn?'t changed a whole lot even today. Yet my grandma was an extrodinary...


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Impact of FIRST Robotics Program
Impact of FIRST Robotics Program
College Admissions · 649 words
  • It was just the second week of school, and I had mustered up all my courage to venture to the nether regions of our school known as the basement to attend the first meeting of the newly forming FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and...


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How would you Describe a Leader and Leadership
How would you Describe a Leader and Leadership
College Admissions · 506 words
  • A significant part of effective leadership is the close connection between the leader and the follower, which often determines the success of the leader's mission. Unfortunately, this leader-follower relationship cannot be created...


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How did you First Become Interested in Reed
How did you First Become Interested in Reed
College Admissions · 421 words
  • How did you first become interested in Reed and why do you think Reed might be an appropriate place, both socially and academically, to continue your education? I could tell you a heartfelt, sentimental, poignant story about first seeing...


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Growth
Growth
College Admissions · 337 words
  • I have always lacked perseverance, a lack of drive, and a general lack of self pride. Never in my life have I felt that that the work I did would mean anything different completed or left half-done. This has been a characteristic of my life for many, many years. Well, this...


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