Common Application: Personal Statement Please write an essay (250 words minimum 500 words maximum) on a topic of your choice or on one of the options listed below. This personal essay helps us to become acquainted with you as a person and student, apart from courses, grades, test scores, and other..

453-word version: In October 2007, the House of Representatives in the United States unanimously approved the measure calling for apology from Japan to surviving victims, especially those known as “comfort women,” of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Pacific War, but in the summer..

500-word version: There are, of course, other ostensibly mundane functions of the string that are, upon deeper thought, essential to our ways of life as well as to our existence: first-string, second-string, G-string, the string bikini, the string bean, the DNA double helix, and string data in com..

699-word version: Think with your heart or head and not with your head or heart! In a popular anthology of the twentieth century art, Art in Theory, 1900-2000, I came across an excerpt written by Jose Ortega y Gasset, a Spanish philosopher, who argues that when appreciating a work of art, artist..

Emory (Oxford College): Undergraduates at Emory and Oxford Colleges are offered countless opportunities to engage with the student body, the faculty, and your academic program of choice—from hands-on research to student organizations to volunteering. What are some of the programs and/or act..

After I finish reading a book, I often review the author’s comments on the plot and themes. Surprisingly, my interpretations were often severely different from the authors’ intention. I wondered what it would be like to hear lectures of the professors who wrote the engineering texts I..