“Personal Essay”

Personal Essay

I was born in Dallas, Texas, and have stayed in texas my whole life but I have moved. When I first went to a school called Summit International Preparatory in Arlington, and to be honest I don’t remember much from this school. All I can remember was me just trying to make friends. During first grade…

personal essay

The mantis shrimp has between 12 and 16 types of photoreceptive cells in their eyes. That is the most complex visual system ever discovered. Compare that to the measly three, sometimes two photoreceptors in the human eye, and you can begin to see just how little of an understanding we have of the…

Personal essay

I never realized how big the world really was and how many opportunities there are, until I was 11. I lived in the UK for the first 11 years of my life and my perspective of the world was a lot smaller than it is now. During the first decade of my life, I had only travelled between the walls of…

Personal Essay

Good, unrestricted writing, requires a creative burst; it requires motivation and emotion and a real opinion on the topic discussed. True writing offers an insight into the mind of an author. It is raw, vulnerable, and therefore unique. True writing shapes history as it molds public opinion and…

Personal Essay

I always think it is funny and very cruel that whenever someone asks me to tell them something interesting about myself, my mind immediately goes blank. I try and think of all the experiences and opportunities that I have had and yet; nothing. I often come to the conclusion that there is nothing…

personal essay

Ever since freshman year, I never felt like going to college was something I was going to do. It still isn't something I have a huge drive to do. I have never, from all my years of school, had a certain subject that I was good at. People always asked me “what's your favorite subject or which subject…

Personal essay

Football was never always been my favorite sport but that doesn’t mean I don’t like it. When I was younger I only played basketball, soccer and baseball even though my father was a football coach to a school near where we lived so it would seem obvious that I would want to play football but ironically…

Personal Essay

This year has been one of the most wild years of my life. It started out pretty normal with just going to school day in and day out. Then Corona hit, it was a weird time I had never experienced a pandemic of such sort in my life. I remember when the Ebola outbreak hit when I was in middle school but…

life in a nutshell

Every day changes us; new experiences, new people, and the passage of time all take their toll. However, in the eighteen years I have been alive, my life has only been fundamentally changed twice. These changes were anything but “every day,” and they altered how I see the world.

Its been almost a year since my grandfather has passed away. No one really knows how to handle death. Sometimes it happens out of nowhere, and other times you know and still can't do anything about it. My grandpa dying was so beyond hard for my family and me to process, but it shaped me into the person today.

Personal Essay

I live in Southlake now, I didn’t always live in Southlake. I have lived all across the world from the northern parts of the United States all the way to west India. Life has not always been easy so in order for me to be the most successful I needed to pick up some necessary personality traits to…

Personal Essay

For 13 years of my life all I knew was an intense and bustling schedule. Training was six days a week with four hour practices, which put me grand total of 24 hours a week for gymnastics training while balancing school. The sport of gymnastics is ruthless: the long hours consist of repetitive…

Personal Essay

Having a twin brother is a blessing and a curse. He is always there for me and I always have a friend to talk to, but a majority of the time he pushes my buttons invades my personal space and gets on my nerves. Early in life, I used to like being a twin, especially a redheaded twin. I loved the…

Personal Essay

Recently I have found myself in the strange position of either having so many things to do that I do not know where to start or having almost nothing at all to do. This has made me spend quite a bit of time thinking about my priorities. Although this is an ever-changing list, here are some of the…

“Personal Essay”

The experience of change

At 18 years old I can bravely say I no longer fear change. This wasn’t an easy fear to overcome and frankly I didn’t overcome it at my own decision. Ever since I can remember I have been tugged away from one place and placed in another whether that…

Personal Essay

During my freshman year of high school, I joined the Future Farmers of America club and memorized the creed. The FFA creed is five paragraphs long and is the inspiration for my personal essay. I said the words “I believe” about a thousand times for FFA; which got me thinking about all the things that…