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Some say that mankind is complex beyond comprehension. I cannot, of course, speak for every other individual on this earth, but I do not believe that I am a very difficult person to understand. My life is based upon two very simple, sweeping philosophies: pragmatism in actions and idealism in thought. Thus, with these two attitudes...
In response to the question ?what has been your biggest mistake?? My biggest mistake is everyone?s biggest mistake, that no one can help. We all take on assumptions throughout our lives, and when we finally come to understand this, we spend our lives undoing all of them in order to approach the truth with assumptionless intellige...
?? This quotation is from a rather outspoken mathematician named Scott Buchanan, who has studied the style of human thought right along with its mathematical accomplishments. It is meant to describe our style of thinking when approaching mathematics. Yet it seems to me that it has a larger meaning: that it applies to the human st...
Scholarship Essay A few days ago, as I was eating lunch with friends, I entered a heated debate a bout the worth of education. ?I should not have to learn algebra and calculus because it will have no influence on my life,? my opponent angrily shouted as I tried to defend the usefulness of mathematics. Three days later, I still mu...
Ever since I was a young kid I have always been interested with aircraft. I was so curious of how airplane?s fly. I remember taking my toys apart to see how it works. As a kid I wanted to go to the airport to watch the airplanes land and fly and pondered how this happens. Other kids wanted to go to the amusement places. As I grew o...
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 Technology) robotics team. When I walked into room one, the newly proclaimed FIRST he...
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 wasn?t it ). There is nothing that forces us to decay into o...
I shudder at the sight of it. I?d rather see them steal that salad than throw it away,? my father bellows in consternation after witnessing the closing rituals at Wendy?s. ?Pa, they do it so they can serve fresh food tomorrow,? I defend the fast food employees? actions. Despite our past four and a half years in ?the Land of P...
Throughout high school and during my undergraduate studies, education was never a top priority for me. Only during the past two years, in the ?real world?, have I realized the importance of education. I look back at those years and wish I had done more and realized all the potential I had in my hands and not wasted so much time. D...
I think I?d want someone who was really intelligent and was after the meaning of life. Someone who?d had insights that I hadn?t who could really bounce ideas back at me in a conversation. Someone who wasn?t afraid to break with the norm and who didn?t care if he was a ?nerd?. Someone with a subtle wit that most people would need to...
8:02 a.m. Saturday. It?s still dark, as usual, on these cold, winter days. Everybody else is still sleeping and enjoying the comfprting heat of their beds. I crack open the locked window by my bed, an act some deemed downright idiotic. I strip off my pj?s, throw on my robe, and head for the shower. Drying off, I think about where...
By unlocking the door to (name) past, one sees his thoughts and actions when they first took hold of his persona. This essay serves as a key to that door and to my current personality. The first beloved books in my life were the Sesame Street Encyclopedia volumes. At three, I wasn?t old enough to read them, but I always wanted to...
?Observe, Watson.? An unfamiliar voice caused me to stop dead in my tracks as I was coming back to my table. Surreptitiously glancing through the foliage, I noticed two men pointing at something. Hesitant to announce my presence, I was very perplexed by the fact that the object they were staring at was my backpack! I was studyin...
My inspiration to succeed has always come from within. As a child, I had the vision of becoming a star and a role model for the next generation. I applied to Emerson College because I believe it will help me fulfill those dreams. I am a person who is driven to achieve, and help others. The adversity of living in a small town, the...
