<p>I just wanted to see what everybody wrote their essays about. I’ll start:</p>
<p>I wrote my essay on my web development business. I wrote about how I developed an interest in computers when I was 5, and the events that led up to my creating a company. I talked about how I started a blog to help other people break into the field, and ended with how this has helped me develop as a person.</p>
<p>I wrote about the first time I found out Santa wasn’t real and how that and a subsequent event involving my younger cousin changed my outlook on childhood and the value of innocence.</p>
<p>wrote about my life…</p>
<p>I’m impressed. Not a lot of people can condense 17 years into 500 words.</p>
<p>i wrote about how I founded a Gay-Straight Alliance at my school and how I was happy to have been able to find something that I’m passionate about, connecting it to the fact that columbia was the first university to create a GSA in the country which showed me that it was the kind of place I’ve been looking for. </p>
<p>run-on sentence L0L</p>
<p>I wrote about hands.</p>
<p>I think that warrants somewhat of an explanation…</p>
<p>About drive and my life.</p>
<p>I wrote about my passion for film.</p>
<p>my role in church :D</p>
<p>I wrote about my year living in Switzerland when I was 12, and how it’s affected me more so than if it would have now because I was still “changing” as a person, and how I overcame the language barrier.</p>
<p>An episode of Candid Camera I watched and how it represents my life philosophy to perceive things i face in life in a better light.</p>
<p>knowledge and why it matters</p>
<p>I wrote about when my best friend was killed by gang violence and how it prompted me to start a community initiative aimed at combating gang violence by providing education and establishing brotherhood among the youth of my community.</p>
<p>Halfrican, that sounds great. I’d love to read that.</p>
<p>oh no…did you guys stick to the 500 word limit? mine was more like…borderline 800.</p>
<p>Good essays guys. Keep it up :-)</p>
<p>Thanks hellojan! My main concern was that it would sound too clich</p>
<p>Mine was like…870.</p>
<p>what do you guys think about a topic i came up with:
i was a really fat kid growing up until i determined to lose weight and now im like a really well-fit guy in high school. talking of pushing towards a goal no matter how hard it seems, one day at a time. yay or nay?</p>