My College Essay

From Black to Light by Ogechi Nwaogu

Black is what I see. When I look around it's all there is. Then they come. They fill the spaces. They are everywhere around me. Hitting me. Passing me. Existing within me. They entice me. They fascinate me.

This is what I live for. The opportunity to do more. I dream of ways to save a nation with these thoughts. The blackness is constantly being filled with ideas. I wish to share, but these thoughts are too strong to express.

Where do I go from here? I can't just save the world in a day. Even Moses didn't walk the world in one day. He saw that he had to see it all. I want to see this world, all of it, with my own eyes. I want this world to see me, to hear me and what I have to say because there is so much.

I want to be somebody beyond who I am today. I want to contribute to the saving of our nation, not to stop global warming, or the ongoing war, neither to ask for the clichéd term of "world peace", but to bring it with no ulterior motives in mind.

I won't do it for the money or for the fame. I will do it to save the next generation and give them a proper lesson on what our world should be because that is far from what it is today.

It is said that there is a one out of a million chance that anything is possible and that you or I are not that one, but I say that we are all that one, like on the show "One Tree Hill" when Brooke said that she was that one out of million person that was going to become a world known fashion designer, when her own mother tried to put her down by telling her that she wasn't that one, but she was.

See, I'm a person just like everyone else. I can stay awake up to one o'clock in the morning watching TV. I love to watch the show "Numb3rs" because it is Charlie in the show that has inspired me to do what I once would have called the impossible. He has shown me that the flying objects through the blackness can be incorporated into everyday life.

These people, Brooke (Sophia Bush) and Charlie (David Krumholtz) didn't initially set out to make a difference with the script that was given to them, but they have made one to me. If I can make even this slight attempt to change the world, so can anyone else. That is what I want to set out to inspire. I want to "pay it forward" to the world because the movie "Pay it Forward”, paid it forward to me by giving me hope for what I once thought was a fallen nation.

In what was once black, it is now bright with no longer numbers alone. My mind is no longer black. It is now filled with flying ideas of numbers and words to inspire those who so strongly look for a sign of hope like the one I found or to inspire those who have lost all hope and to give them the assurance that I will be there to restore their faith in all things, but first hope.

As an aspiring mathematician/accountant I wish to not only calculate numbers to increase the rate of money coming in for the company I work for. I wish to broaden my ideas and the ideas of others to think of math in the outside world and to make it an escape to sanctuary for someone else as it has for me.

Man Up

Man Up

His face is augmented by the shadows that surround him

His haphazard is like a cool breeze on the skin

He walks as if emoting for all to see

But is recluse

He vindicates his role as a virtuoso

He smiles but is in oblivion to those who are engraved by him

He doesn't dilatory

He is spontaneous

But not too haphazard

When looking into his eyes you feel like you’re in an asylum

You are cajoled by how he infiltrates your thoughts

He doesn't dictate or give adulations

He doesn't say the reciprocal of what he feels

Nor does he repudiate what is thrown at him

He is not arid when he extenuates his thoughts

His statements aren't hackneyed or skeptical

He mitigates the truth to make a replica to the harsh facts of life

He speaks of disparity with deplore

His thoughts and ideas are perpetual towards volatile

All he entreats is jubilation

For fidelity to venerate

Those who wish to change the perquisite ways of the world

Man up

Classwork on 5/6/08

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Based on the research you have done on the college essay, list three things that you have noticed about the requirements for writing a college essay.

1)attention grabber(introduction)

2)1 page, single-spaced

3)originality

4)good conventions(grammar)

5)must address the topic

Classwork on 5/2/08

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-What makes a good personal narrative for a college essay?

Something that you have experienced that makes you original from others with similar backgrounds. An experience that only you can experience because of its connection to you.

-weakness
-strength
-achievements
-lessons learned from experiences/failures
-life changing experience

-What does it mean to be a dynamic person(character)?

Character who goes through changes.

-Is this essay rich in imagery? Identify them.

Yes. "I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed."

-Do you notice any alliteration?

Yes. "Woo Women"

-Is the vocabulary extensive,eloquent(well expressed)?

Yes.

-What makes it memorable, fluent & persuasive?

He's basically saying that he has done all this and now he's ready to do more in their school if they persuade him.

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Write an experience that has changed you and then express how you feel about it.

Result of Failing City-Wide Test on purpose - angry, sad, upset, deprived, stupid, depressed, nervous

Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (Ad-libbed Speech and Biography)

Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Speech on Vietnam War

First we provide an inferior education for black students. Next we give them a series of tests which many will flunk because of an inferior education. Then we pack these academic failures off to Vietnam to be killed.

What is the thing that we loosely call freedom? This word is sanctioned with lies in the time of this war. Why restrain what we have taken the time to build so heavenly. An education is given to explore the mind but is wasted on this senseless war. Who are you? Who are we? Who I am to stop the birth of a mind that can grow beyond measure, which can one day lead us to liberty?

The tests were designed to select out the culturally gifted for continued college education and consign the intellectually deprived to the armed services. Implicit in the draft deferment tests is the theory of a race of Aryan supermen and the belief that rare great minds alone are fit to direct the destinies of a nation and to dispose of the lives of its untutored masses. Instead of a social democracy where equality is encouraged to flourish these draft deferment tests lay the foundation for a racial aristocracy. These tests are reminiscent of Hitler's twin system of eugenics and education -- weed out the intellectually deprived or socially undesirables by conscripting them for cannon fodder."

Bibliography:

http://www.aavw.org/protest/politics_powell_abstract05.html

Classwork on 4/30/08

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What do you think is the objective(s) for college essays?

I think college essays exist to give the college you are applying to, something to single you out from the rest. They want to know what makes you so special and so unique that you should be accepted to their school out of the many applicants.

Classwork on 4/10/08

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Why write a resume?

I think that a resume is written to show your quality skills and is required to see if those skills fit the criteria for the job appointed.

Things To Have On A Resume- Objective(plans,goals), Skills(Language), Reference(available upon request), Work Experience(where,when,title,description), Awards/Achievements, Abilities, Extra Curricular Activities, Education(HS degree/GPA), Volunteer Experience, Name & Contact info