Application of Rhetoric

My application of rhetoric to accomplish something actually is an application. As many high school seniors know, first semester means the trails of college applications. This means many essays about random topics that you could care less about while trying to sound smarter than you really are. Most of the time the essays for all of the different colleges are different enough so that you can not even use the same essay for multiple college applications. This tedious process does have its benefits though. This is your one opportunity to try to impress colleges and show them your “uniqueness.” I put quotations around uniqueness because many of the things people say in applications that they think are unique to them have happened to just about everyone, but that’s a topic for another day. My senior year of high school, I had narrowed my college choices down to six. This was much better than the double digits of some of my friends. The only negative was that only one of my schools offered the common app, meaning I would have to write individual essays and applications for all of them. This was not so bad for the first few and they almost wrote themselves. Then came the Clemson application and more so the Clemson Honors College application. There were 7 or 8 essays that I had to write, 6 being for the Honors college. After much effort and time I finally finished my essays for the university and the honors college. Unfortunately my computer crashed and I had to retype all of the Honors college essays. Luckily all of my hard work paid off and I was accepted to Clemson University class of 2018! After typing the six honors college essays and then retyping them I decided that I did not want to be in the honors college and I wanted to live in the RiSE dorms for engineers. Just typing all of those essays was an accomplishment in itself, so I am not too bitter about doing it, OK maybe a little.