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This I Believe
I believe in living in the moment (within reason, of course). No, nobody in my family died. No, I didn’t have one of those near-death experiences. I simply love taking life’s bizarre mish-mash of...
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First Draft of College Application Essay
Yep. It’s part of my summer English assignment. And I’ve already typed out the first draft. Good grief, this thing is going to under so many edits. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I busted it out yesterday during...
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Essay: Adventures in Flair
This year in AP English Language and Composition, we were assigned to write an essay on fashion at my school. Really. No joke, for those of you who are now ogling the screen like my post grew a third...
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Essay: The Possible Extinction of the Printed Word
I grew up reading books on a daily basis, usually swallowing five or six a day. Weekends were even better: I could read up to ten multi-hundred-page books by the late afternoon when I was in fourth...
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Essay Story: A Beautiful Vision
The categorizing of this piece of writing as an essay is a bit of a misnomer, but my 10th grade English teacher dubbed this assignment a “short story essay” (I don’t really understand how it’s a short...
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UGHHHHHHHHH
That is the sound of a high school student groaning over THAT week. That’s right. Finals week, when you have to survive a gruesome three half-days (in my case) of tests and projects and presentations....
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In-Class Essay: The Bare Minimum
Yeah, more essays. Except they’re in-class, so they might not be as good as some of the others I’ve posted, but they’re part of my development as a writer, so screw that. There will be errors. Comments...
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Essay: The Wolf and the Lamb
I know, the title’s kind of weird. And is kind of overused in symbols. Or maybe not, depending on your preferences. I don’t know. Don’t read ahead if you haven’t watched The Postman Rings Twice or read...
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In-Class Essay: White: A Guise and Paradox
We read The Great Gatsby as AP Lang and Comp students at my school always do (coincidence how the movie came out this year too–I liked it, minus some of the soundtrack. Rapping–blech. Does NOT go with...
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I’m BAAAAAAAAAACK!
I was a lucky, lucky girl and got into the University of California’s COSMOS math and science program this summer. It was pure awesomeness and craziness and I don’t regret anything I did there. And the...
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