While I was spending a relaxing and cool summer at home, my parents suggested that I go visit my uncle in the countryside. I was reluctant to answer right away because the summer in Korea's southern countryside is unbearably torrid... Day one: We were sent to the greenhouse to pick cucumbers...

I enter the pool with joy and zeal, but I quickly find myself struggling miserably to get out of a hold. “Can you stop that, dude?” I angrily ask number five in the blue cap. “Stop what!?” replies number five with a grin as he grasps my arm again. After guzzling down the ch..

U of Chicago: Would you please tell us about a few of your favorite books, poems, authors, films, plays, pieces of music, musicians, performers, paintings, artists, magazines, or newspapers? Feel free to touch on one, some, or all of the categories listed, or add a category of your own. 282-w..

You have just completed your 300-page autobiography. Please submit page 217. (3500 characters) 1686-character version: ...It has been thirty-six years since graduation. I contacted him several times before, but I could not catch up with him because we were both very busy with our lives... Since..

242-word version: History – All Schools (First Choice College) History is extensive and influential, but every moment of that history is swift. Similarly, my decision to major in history was swift but will have lasting effects. Many of my peers enjoy instant gratifications, like fast food re..

Each season and year at Johns Hopkins will have a different meaning for me. Fall will be a season of confusion. Fall marks the beginning of an entirely novel experience that may very well confuse me both mentally and physically with leaves changing their colors to add to my confusion...