Ways to Begin the College essay
3. There is a
child. She is slouching on a green couch that is engulfing her in its leather
waves. She sits playing with dolls of some kind. She is then bored and goes off
to play with stuffed animals of some kind. She is unsure, they were just some
presents her parents had given her a day before they announced they were
getting a divorce. The walls of her room were white, bare, and soon to be
nonexistent. The relative innocence of the wall matched the way the girl felt.
She paced around the room, allowing the shredded grass of the white carpet to
fill her toes. She could still see the part where her older sister had drawn a
smiley face with permanent highlighters in order to protest what was
approaching fast. However, it was dimmed. The sun was setting on the day, and
on life as the child knew it. She
would be moving to Virginia Beach the day after tomorrow. And like the movie, an
apocalypse was waiting for her.
10. I stare at a Starry Night in front of me. The colors dim in
and out of my peripheral view as I struggle to see beyond the somewhat
perplexing design of the sky. All I see are vast blue holes, empty and void of
life and of color. However, I also see a glimmering speck of hope in the
presence of the shiny moon. Its golden luminescence calls to me. It calls to me
to join it in Heaven, to join it in a world where the only thing one has to
worry about is when your time as a supernova is up, and you must explode. I
understand you, now, Van Gogh. I just wish I would have discovered your nirvana
escape earlier in my lifetime.
4. I really really really really really like ice cream.
It is so delicious. I used to smear it all over my fave when I was younger. Well
atleast that is what my mommy tells me. I just go with whatever she says
because, well, I want to watch Lizzie McGuire when I get home from school.
Mommy says I can not watch it anymore, it isn’t on tv. That makes me really
really sad. Almost as sad as that time I had to move to Virginia Beach when my
parents told me they were getting a divorce while I was trying to watch The
Suite Life of Zack and Cody. I remember that day clearly. In a way, that can
only be positive. That day altered the course of my life for good. There were
some days where I was on Mount Olympus and others where, well
I was stuck in the darkest level of Tartarus. However, it helped me to
learn what Oprah Winfrey said was true, “Your
life begins to change when you decide to make changes.” I strove to improve my
life and my outlook on the world, and I did. Like Lizzie McGuire, I figured it
out on the way.
5. Act 1, scene 1, a young girl named Julia Kristen Stitely
takes center stage. She is a young girl, about 10 years old, she stands there on
the stage silent, uncertain of where to go next. She knows that if she does not
navigate this challenge correctly that things will not turn out for the best.
This is the point in her life where a change needs to be made. A change that
will profoundly affect the future. Her parents have just announced that she is
to move to Virginia Beach and that she is to start a new life. She is a sad
girl, as she is perplexed and wondering why that means that her father can not
accompany her. Those thoughts lingered in her mind until she could not think
about anything else, and her life began to suffer for it. However, today that
was all going to change. Today, Julia was going to change the course of her
future, as she knew that her life would not change, until she changed it
herself.
9. There was a snake in the garden. A dead snake of course, as
mother would have never let a live one breathe for more than five seconds once
it crossed her path. It’s leathery skin lay like hay in a heap around its head.
It’s scales peeled off like the skin trying to replenish itself after a sunburn.
Dad just stood there looking sadly at the dead carcass. The
scales drooped, desperately trying to escape the depravity and hopelessness of
that dead snake. It’s head was severed at the neck with what appeared to be an
ax carried by an unknown hunter. The head was not completely cut off, just to
the point where the medulla would no longer function and the snake could no
longer breathe. The lengthy, stubborn, tongue still hung out of its mouth, the
only remnants of a once complete individual. That snake was my family. The
hunter was a divorce lawyer. And I was the observer, contemplating how to pick
up the pieces of the snake and change my life for the better, even after all of
the bloody carnage I had witnessed.
7. “Your life begins to change when you decide to make
changes.” “What does Oprah
Winfrey mean by that?” My sister Meg Stitely thought. Meg believed that life
just happened and it was going to change when it wanted to. The very notion that
she, at the young age of six, could have done anything to change life was new to
her. I can imagine how things would be different if she had decided to change
her life by being a horrible big sister the day my twin and I came home from the
hospital. I then sit back thankful. Maybe it is a good idea that she did not
know that until we were older. That way when she tried to ship us off to Hawaii,
we had enough common sense to prevent her from deciding to make changes to her
life. Even though she learned to believe in that quotation immediately after our
parents’ divorce, it took me a little longer. Even though she learned to excel,
and transfer her frustration into being her best self, it took me a little
longer. Oh boy, did it take me a little longer.
child. She is slouching on a green couch that is engulfing her in its leather
waves. She sits playing with dolls of some kind. She is then bored and goes off
to play with stuffed animals of some kind. She is unsure, they were just some
presents her parents had given her a day before they announced they were
getting a divorce. The walls of her room were white, bare, and soon to be
nonexistent. The relative innocence of the wall matched the way the girl felt.
She paced around the room, allowing the shredded grass of the white carpet to
fill her toes. She could still see the part where her older sister had drawn a
smiley face with permanent highlighters in order to protest what was
approaching fast. However, it was dimmed. The sun was setting on the day, and
on life as the child knew it. She
would be moving to Virginia Beach the day after tomorrow. And like the movie, an
apocalypse was waiting for her.
10. I stare at a Starry Night in front of me. The colors dim in
and out of my peripheral view as I struggle to see beyond the somewhat
perplexing design of the sky. All I see are vast blue holes, empty and void of
life and of color. However, I also see a glimmering speck of hope in the
presence of the shiny moon. Its golden luminescence calls to me. It calls to me
to join it in Heaven, to join it in a world where the only thing one has to
worry about is when your time as a supernova is up, and you must explode. I
understand you, now, Van Gogh. I just wish I would have discovered your nirvana
escape earlier in my lifetime.
4. I really really really really really like ice cream.
It is so delicious. I used to smear it all over my fave when I was younger. Well
atleast that is what my mommy tells me. I just go with whatever she says
because, well, I want to watch Lizzie McGuire when I get home from school.
Mommy says I can not watch it anymore, it isn’t on tv. That makes me really
really sad. Almost as sad as that time I had to move to Virginia Beach when my
parents told me they were getting a divorce while I was trying to watch The
Suite Life of Zack and Cody. I remember that day clearly. In a way, that can
only be positive. That day altered the course of my life for good. There were
some days where I was on Mount Olympus and others where, well
I was stuck in the darkest level of Tartarus. However, it helped me to
learn what Oprah Winfrey said was true, “Your
life begins to change when you decide to make changes.” I strove to improve my
life and my outlook on the world, and I did. Like Lizzie McGuire, I figured it
out on the way.
5. Act 1, scene 1, a young girl named Julia Kristen Stitely
takes center stage. She is a young girl, about 10 years old, she stands there on
the stage silent, uncertain of where to go next. She knows that if she does not
navigate this challenge correctly that things will not turn out for the best.
This is the point in her life where a change needs to be made. A change that
will profoundly affect the future. Her parents have just announced that she is
to move to Virginia Beach and that she is to start a new life. She is a sad
girl, as she is perplexed and wondering why that means that her father can not
accompany her. Those thoughts lingered in her mind until she could not think
about anything else, and her life began to suffer for it. However, today that
was all going to change. Today, Julia was going to change the course of her
future, as she knew that her life would not change, until she changed it
herself.
9. There was a snake in the garden. A dead snake of course, as
mother would have never let a live one breathe for more than five seconds once
it crossed her path. It’s leathery skin lay like hay in a heap around its head.
It’s scales peeled off like the skin trying to replenish itself after a sunburn.
Dad just stood there looking sadly at the dead carcass. The
scales drooped, desperately trying to escape the depravity and hopelessness of
that dead snake. It’s head was severed at the neck with what appeared to be an
ax carried by an unknown hunter. The head was not completely cut off, just to
the point where the medulla would no longer function and the snake could no
longer breathe. The lengthy, stubborn, tongue still hung out of its mouth, the
only remnants of a once complete individual. That snake was my family. The
hunter was a divorce lawyer. And I was the observer, contemplating how to pick
up the pieces of the snake and change my life for the better, even after all of
the bloody carnage I had witnessed.
7. “Your life begins to change when you decide to make
changes.” “What does Oprah
Winfrey mean by that?” My sister Meg Stitely thought. Meg believed that life
just happened and it was going to change when it wanted to. The very notion that
she, at the young age of six, could have done anything to change life was new to
her. I can imagine how things would be different if she had decided to change
her life by being a horrible big sister the day my twin and I came home from the
hospital. I then sit back thankful. Maybe it is a good idea that she did not
know that until we were older. That way when she tried to ship us off to Hawaii,
we had enough common sense to prevent her from deciding to make changes to her
life. Even though she learned to believe in that quotation immediately after our
parents’ divorce, it took me a little longer. Even though she learned to excel,
and transfer her frustration into being her best self, it took me a little
longer. Oh boy, did it take me a little longer.