The Best College Essay Examples

When you are young life doesn’t seem so complicated and relationships are as simple as family, friends, and everyone else. This is an easy social trap to fall into as you grow up. What we all fail to see is …

Three years ago, I pushed off a dock for the first time and took my first strokes. Initially, sitting two inches off the water in a fairly narrow boat made me anxious. The movements felt unnatural, the terminology seemed as …

I know evil. It is not the looming shadowed figure that everyone suspects. Evil wears a tacky green suit laced with sequins and lurks in the most unsuspecting places. I met this evil. It slithered into preschool and stole our …

When the Curtain Goes Up I was probably 8 years old. And now as I stood behind the curtain the weeks of preparation finally made sense. The hairspray coma and the fury of lipstick made sense. The changing and re-sizing …

October 2, 2005. 7 a.m. the alarm clock rang. I popped out of bed, excited and nervous. The first thought on my mind, “Today is the day, my first official football game.” I’ve played before but not like this. Not …

Mentally, I am a type of soldier. I eat two squares of dark chocolate everyday that I leave the house- four for stressful events. My consistent intake of chocolate occurs because of my necessity for order –quasi-OCD, or so people …

With a student’s schedule looking more and more like the president’s it is no wonder that students don’t have time to eat a healthy nutritious breakfast in the morning. ‘Long commutes and extended and non-traditional work hours.’ (Lafleur) Are often …

We had just walked into my house, my brother and I. We both had been having a rough day and just figured that our mom was still with our aunt, still taking care of her. Getting the dishes cleaned and …

Despite their degrees and supposed wisdom some professors just don’t know how to teach. Their wisdom and knowledge is found to be lacking when it comes to identifying what their students need help with and how to teach them. This …

Don’t read this essay. Don’t wear pants. A young girl, aptly named Marcy, is obnoxious, precocious, and intolerably insufferable (here have her redeeming qualities come to die). Because of these traits, and the sweet taste of refusal on her tongue, …

My passion has always been playing volleyball, but it was taken away from me with one dive, which resulted in a dislocated shoulder. Since then, I have switched my passion from playing volleyball to coaching it. When I walked into …

Have you ever thought about what we are made of? Many new ideas are being explored by scientists driven by this one question. The String Theory is one these ideas. This “String Theory” in short, describes that a “string” makes …

On a perfect Sunday afternoon, you stroll around the neighborhood park trying to soak up the sunny weather. On the opposite pathway you see a 65-year old woman freely enjoying her day. Quickly scanning her face, you observe the gray …

Having played soccer my entire life, my decision to play football in my senior year was rather bold. It came after several months of hard thought, and recognizing the fact that my teammates on the soccer team were not people …

Losing myself in the rhythms, melodies, suspense, and energy of music is an enriching experience. As I move from one song to the next, I realize how foreign this genre or that artist is, and I find comfort and awe …

Sixteen months ago, the now-retired band director handed me a black case and said: “It’s an alto saxophone. You’ll play in the marching band in September.” It was June! In the three months before band camp, I had to learn …

I never quite understood the meaning of a simple verse until the beginning of last summer. I memorized the words when I first started school in kindergarten. My teachers worked consistently with my classmates and I to make sure we …

Pondering the meaning of any word can be a struggle, as everyone has their own views of what the word really means; it is all perception. Dedication is one of the words that has many different meanings. To some, dedication …

On my official visit to OSU, a gentleman who currently attends the university said something that really stuck with me during the course of the visit. He said, “ Choosing OSU was one of the best decisions that I have …

Art. Art speaks where words are unable to explain. There are multiple forms of art. People do it to express their feelings. Some can look at the same painting but have different feelings about it. I stare at this painting …

September 18, 2009. I remember it like it was one year ago. Cheers, chants, and yells surrounded me from all angles. My heart was pounding, I was sweating, and my hair was a little messy but I couldn’t care less. …

Sitting in my boat slowly rolling back and forth on my slide, my legs shake with anticipation as I anxiously listen to surrounding coxswains instruct their rowers to adjust the point of their boats and wait impatiently for my race …

The wind from the cooling breeze was rolling swiftly across the ground as the sun was slowly rising. It was an early morning on the field, and the increasing temperature slowly baked away the mildew from the stiff frost grass. …

It was a dark and stormy night, the lights were low, everyone was asleep, and I could hear a groaning in the house. I made my way to the kitchen when suddenly BAM! I smack right into someone! I start …