502-word version: Tetris! Although it seems overly simple and outdated by today’s standards, it espouses an especially enlightening representation for me as it parallels our society... 948-word version: Musing upon a great inventor and his invention of the twentieth century, the effigy o..

It’s a three hour drive from the city of Gwangju to Seoul. I made this trip every weekend for three months. Initially, the drives up North consisted of an emotional up and down. My mother and I waged battles that often followed with a long period of silence. I put up a good fight but I was n..

724-word version: Our family motto: Be a necessary contributor to society. Be vi., aux. v. (pp. been [bin / biːn, bin]): You use be to introduce more information about the subject, such as its identity, nature, qualities, or position. For me, “to be, or not to be” depends on whether..

690-word version: "Shut up! I know you’re lying. How could you be so untrue to yourself?" A small dorm room suddenly explodes into an enormous battlefield with my declaration of war against my adversary. "How could you say I`m lying? Don`t you dare accuse me of what I didn`t d..

691-word version: Recently, for the first time in three years, I checked my acoustic guitar to see if the neck was bent. As I examined from the bottom to top of the guitar's neck, I suddenly recognized the gleaming insights that were always there for me to realize for three years, but were lef..

735-word version: Have you ever tried to be a friend to a lonely hedgehog? It is your decision to make, but once you have decided to do so, you should be warned that you are opting to be pricked by its thorns. It would be painful. Yet you might get a precious life lesson: do not ever befriend it a..