...The excursion had been planed over the course of more than half a year. My friends and I meticulously prepared for every possible situation, emergency and predicament...

Carnegie Mellon: It`s Wednesday, ten years from now. What are you working on? (1000 characters) 922-character version: Carnegie Mellon ...You see, I was influenced by Salvador Dali’s realistic yet whimsically distorted portrayal of objects... Carnegie Mellon: Identify and describe an..

...Against endless efforts to control every muscular movement from pollical to abdominal to femoral, I evolve from inspiration to perspiration to corporeality...

In life, opportunity obliges only the heart and mind that is prepared. Although many might regard my currently propitious circumstances as a result of generous opportunities rather than a product of my personal endeavors, I have come to understand that no stroke of good luck and its consequential..

483-word version: One End First Although many would not critically consider the difference between the words ‘one’ and ‘first,’ each word, even used as the same part of speech, namely, in the word class of adjective, renders and relates an astonishingly dissimilar concept..

156-word version: I met my 7th grader webbies for the first time as their peer mentor on the first day of school... 282-word version: ...Although my webbies might have thought strangely of me for my suggestion, I needed something to break the ice and to get to know each other better...