| Okay, so why do you think a college wants to take its time to read your essay explaining things? Maybe they want to see what meaning you derived from that experience. Perhaps, if you're smart enough to think about "top l0 colleges" already, you can spend some suspension time reading some philosophers about honesty and morality, or issues in academic integrity today (google is your friend).
You might also decide you need to give back some time to others as a way of assuaging your guilty feelings, which you could do through some summertime civic works to help clean up your school or community.
You certainly could write a letter to your beloved teacher.
In other words, don't just do your academic work during this suspension. Use the time to dig deeply into what happened, what you think about it, and what acts you can take next to help redeem the broken trust. That's eventually what you might write about to the colleges in that essay.
Apparently, they don't say "If you had a suspension, tear up your application and don't even bother to apply." Evidently, they want to read what you'll have to tell them about it, a few years from now.
What will you say when the time comes about how you responded in the days and weeks following this incident? Your life is a slate; now go write upon it. |