<p>i wrote about getting out of the smog filled city i live in and go to the mountains to see the stars for the first time without any barriers. I spent money on gas, film and taco bell=)</p>
<p>taco bell’s popular haha</p>
<p>My sister, who got in ED, wrote about a country muisc festival. We live in Tennessee. Her opening sentance was “Yee-haw.” </p>
<p>-JTShocker33</p>
<p>I spent a lot of time thinking of what I could do with my $10.</p>
<p>My first sentence was: Regular or Scratch off?</p>
<p>Basically i took, my $10, walked to the gas station and bought $10 worth of lottery tickets. I described that experience in a paragraph or two and then i turned the essay into a “i did what i wanted, without wondering what others may think” type of essay and how I was taking a chance here- not necessarily with the lottery tickets, but with the essay and my application as a whole. It came out pretty cool and the way I wrote, it made the essay sound sincere and witty. </p>
<p>I am an intl. that needs fin.aid. so that alone is enough for them to reject me.
I hope I get in tho.</p>
<p>I went with my friends for the dump. Dig out in rubbish to make a rack for pump that we projected during the physics competition, but we had no idea of how to build it cheap and fast. I used the money to buy bus’ tickets for my friends, to get there…
And then we built it up. After building, we spent the last 4 dollars for a shower in the gas station rest room :).</p>
<p>I wrote about going to the Met with my step-sister. I guess it worked, I got in…but I still like to complain about how terribly the financial aid office treated me over the situation with my father.</p>
<p>I live in Japan near the Ghibli Museum so I said I’d walk there and pay the 800yen entrance fee. Afterwards have a can coffee from the vending machine (120 yen).</p>
<p>I had the hardest time with this question. I probably changed around the topic of my essay ten times. I didn’t want to be sappy but I didn’t want to make it seem as if I wasted ten bucks. I eventually just wrote about an imaginary day with my friend and some examples of the adventures that we’ve had together and added in the dollars and cents in between. I ended up really liking it. It became more a tribute to my friendship than anything else. Hope it works!</p>
<p>hey international I am an international that needs financial aid too. Guess we’re in the same boat. 
Good luck to everyone All the essays seem really original and excellent material for any acceptee!</p>
<p>I am an internation in the same boat too ? ( this boat is getting too overcrowded isn’t it :), hope it doesnt sink and we reach JHU safely!!)</p>
<p>I am an international in the same boat too!*</p>
<p>Mine was about climbing a mountain and fighting a dragon.</p>
<p>Dont think of it so much as an overcrowded boat- think of it as a cruise.
I know this isn’t good news for us, but a lot of international students applied to JHU from my school and 95% of them need aid as well. I’m talking like 10-12 of them.</p>
<p>Don’t lose hope though; we’ll see where this cruise line takes us.</p>
<p>where are you from international86?</p>
<p>wake up late. bike with my little brother and sister to 711 and have a ‘brunch’… bike back to the park. they’re little kids so they can play on the stuff. i would read a book. then head back home some time in the afternoon and have my mom rent a blockbuster with her membership. settle down with some popcorn and a movie… i live at school, so i dont get to spend much time with my siblings.</p>
<p>go to mongolian steppe, and trace the backsteps of ghenis Khan(try to be creative)…something like, but it was really bad compare to other essay iwrote for other colleges…</p>
<p>I said you can live an adventure even without money, and I wrote my essay from an anti-capitalist view.</p>
<p>I said I would use the money toward a trip to visit this professor in Connecticut who believes he has figured out time travel. I then went into a fictional story about me saving Lincoln’s life.</p>
<p>Mine was like, “well its all relative, if im here maybe ill buy some food, if im stranded on a island ill probably need it to start a fire…”</p>
<p>thats not a direct quote, it doesnt suck that bad</p>
<p>I made a slideshow/video.</p>