Free Write

College. One simple word that is the entire universe of most high school seniors. Don't get me wrong, I can't wait to be a freshman in one of my dream colleges but the stress is so overbearing. There are so many points to hit before a college even considers your application. You have to have the right grade point average, the right SAT scores, the right after school and extra curricular activities and lets not mention the right topic for the oh so famous college essay.
I had a first draft of my college essay and I thought it was my best piece of writing I'd ever done. WRONG!!! When my teachers and mentors read it they had all sorts of criticism. The topic was too broad, it didn't tell the admissions officers anything about me and it just wasn't interesting enough. What I thought had been one of my best works easily became one of my worst in less than a day.
Truth is, it's hard finding a good topic for our college essays. And even when we do find it it's hard to find a way to word it so that it captivates everyone's attention. It's a lot of pressure when you have to find a story from your life that embodies your essence and personality and scrunch it up into 500 words. There's so many moments and people and experienced that have occured in my life for me to be able to put all of that in 500 words. My personality needs WAY more than 500 words to be defined.

The Human Body (PB)

The human body is the most fascinating thing in the world to me. I'm mesmerized by the way in which it functions. The way in which we are able to breathe subconsciously while we sleep and how the body creates platelets when it notices an injury. I guess what i love about the body is that it's self sustainable. I'm mostly interested in the dead human body though, that is why I am pursuing a career in pathology.

I like probing around and being able to feel the squishy brains and the smooth liver. I am very hands on when it comes to cadavers.I remember my first and only time I interacted with a corpse at Cornell Medical School. It was an unexplainable mixture of excitement and nervousness. I was excited to get my hands on it but nervous that I wouldn't have been able to handle the situation. But at the end of the day I was pleases to find out that I was not scared or intimidated while working with a dead body. It was one of the best days of my life. Knowing that I was able to handle such an experience so maturely was priceless.