600-word version: “You deserve the name Lego; you were the Lego block between me and the other girls.” She said to me on the breakfast table one day. I felt as though I had been asked out by the cutest boy in school while gasping for breath yawning and trying to rub the wax off of my d..

“Stereotyped beliefs have the power to become self-fulfilling prophesies for behavior.” - From Men and Women in Interaction, Reconsidering the Differences by Elizabeth Aries, Professor of Psychology, Amherst College The Lady Her icy hands grabbed my arms once again. Halting at the sp..

He crossed the Yalu River and on to the barren lands of Sakhalin. There he thought he might find hope if he worked hard enough, at least until a big bully decided to load him on a cargo train and send him away to Central Asia along with 175,000 of his brethren, on a journey in which one fifth of t..

1499-character version (out of 1500 character limit): Brown – Public Service 1997, Prague. I dreamt of becoming an author who will be read by every child around the world. My dream, however, shattered within minutes as a Discovery Channel documentary told me that children were being forced a..

428-word version: Although most of us take the subway for two reasons, one, to save money on gas, and two, to save time from traffic, I take the subway for one reason, to save myself from the microscopic view of my “sheltered” world and to deliver myself to the “unsheltered&rdquo..

Brown: Who interested you in Brown (e.g., college counselor, Brown alumnus/a, admission officer, undergraduate, relative)? (500 characters) Version 1 (498 characters): Wonhoe Koo, a current student at Brown, inspired me to apply to Brown... Version 2 (497 characters): A picture of Professo..