289-word version: As I was walking in the park with my dog while watching the routine scenery, a sudden query seized me... 365-word version: A small brown puppy tottered slowly towards me. The suckling neonate was a mere pet dog then. But the dog trotting next to me now is a member of my family...

Please tell us how you have spent the last two summers (or vacations between school years), including any jobs you have held. 292-word version: Walking along to the conveyor belt, I watched various forms of bearings being produced. After all the bearings had traversed off the belt, an employee h..

425-word version: Princeton - Engineering ...Had I not noticed the seemingly unnoticeable effects just as the Wright Brothers had not noticed the seemingly unnoticeable scenery of birds in flight, I would not have discovered my interest in engineering and the Wright Brothers would not have enginee..

Nervous at the prospect of entering my first college class, I take a deep breath and enter the room. As I breathe in, I imagine a huge auditorium with numerous students focusing on a single professor lecturing in a language no one in the room understands. After class, the professor leaves to resea..

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..

Jogging along a trail, enjoying the fresh air, I suddenly come to a wood with trees measuring more than an arm’s span around. Among the trees I saw several buildings, and I and the other students headed towards one of them. In one of the classes, I was astonished at an unfamiliar scene: a sm..