<p>I plan on posting up my essay prompts for UC’s AFTER the deadline passes tonight at 12 midnight. I realize that i obviously wouldn’t be able to make any changes or take suggestions people have since it would be after the deadline but i’d only be doing it just to see varying opinions since i feel alright with my essay at this point. My question is does anyone have comments on the safety of doing so? Is there any possible exception to the Nov 30 deadline that would allow anyone to steal my essay or its ideas if it is posted on this forum Dec 1st?</p>
<p>The only thing I would worry about is maybe the admissions offices somehow scanning your essay for plagiarism and finding it here? I’m not sure how strict they are or if they even do that at all, just something to consider.</p>
<p>Memoirs
A new semester began. I moved out of my dormitory and rented a room near campus. When I unpacked my bags, some photos tumbled out. One of them showed a small rabbit sleeping in my hands. I remembered it was the poor baby rabbit I had raised. It still pained me every time I thought about it.
When I got bored, going to the pet shop was my favorite thing to do. I loved small animals and always squatted in front of their cages until my mom urged me to go home. She never let me raise any pets, because she believed they would mess up rooms and considered them a dangerous thing for children. But the things I never owned were always the best. My mom’s decision strengthened my wish to have a pet even more.
On the pedestrian overpass in Beijing, there were lots of people selling small items, such as fans, hairpins, and cheap nail polish. One day, I passed through the bridge alone and saw small rabbits in cages. I squatted in front of the cage, caught in a dilemma of listening to my mom and buying the rabbit that was so cute I could not bear to leave. A little girl passed by and she was attracted to the rabbits just like me. She was pulled away by her mother and cried loudly. I realized how my mom would be mad at me if I had bought a rabbit. But I still chose a little guy who had red eyes and white soft furs like snow. I named him Mantou.
I was so compunctious for my impulsive act on the way home, because I was afraid to let my mom know that I bought a small animal prior telling her. I hid the rabbit under my bed. And luckily, he did not smell. For the next few days, my mom found that I started to love vegetables and ate them uncooked. I sometimes let Mantou out when my mom left the house. Unlike other small animals, Mantou did not run fast and always followed me everywhere. At that time, teasing him and stoking his soft furs were my favorite things to do. He looked so lovely when he rested on my slippers and looked up at me while I sat on the foot of my bed. But the good time did not last long. One day morning, my mom shouted at me to come and got mad. She found Mantou was biting the flowers when she watered them. Mantou was so smart that he opened the door of the cage with his teeth.
Surprisingly, my mom did not demand me to throw the rabbit out like I thought she would. But she let me raise him and taught me to be responsible once I bought him. I ordered a larger cage and a bag of hay online straight away. But it was too late. The rabbit died the next day, because I raised him on carrots and cabbages, like in the fairy tales. He grew up so fast that the cage was too small to let him move. I still remember how he stiffened in the cage that was just his body’s size. I cried for the whole day and was so regretful that I hid Mantou from my mom, because she could have given me advices on how to raise him. Maybe he would have lived if I had raised him in a proper way.</p>
<p>A. Why are you posting your essay on this thread that’s been dead for a year?
B. Now you risk someone plagiarizing this essay.
C. What is the prompt even?
D. I don’t learn anything about you from this essay, because the experience you’re describing happened when you were young.
E. College essays should generally be uplifting, not depressing like this one…</p>