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CERDO DEL CAPITALISTA!! ##:::: ##::'##.. ##:: ##.....:: =========================================== ##:::: ##:'##:::: ##: ##::::::: THE HELOTS OF ECSTASY PRESS RELEASE #327 !! #########: ##:::: ##: ######::: ZIEGO VUANTAR SHALL BE MUCH VICTORIOUS! !! ##.... ##: ##:::: ##: ##...:::: =========================================== ##:::: ##:. ##:: ##:: ##::::::: "The Crap I Write" !! ##:::: ##::. #####::: ########: by -> PezMonkey !! ..:::::..::::.....::::........:: 12/11/98 !! !!========================================================================!! here are excerpts from my college application essay. i wrote something like 12 total, i think. these were all used for schools i got into, and for the most part was offered scholarships to. i think that's probably an embarrassment to most of the schools, since these essays are cheesy out the ass, and just stupid. though, admittedly, i read a bunch of essays on "how to write a good college essay" before i wrote these, so these're pretty much copies, except with dumber concepts. so, uh, enjoy. for Georgetown: Me Wanting to Be "Different" ============== Jerry stripped off his blue jumpsuit and stood nude in the midst of the other workers. The suit was nothing but a burden there in the hot work yard. The sun beat down on his newly exposed body, but soon his skin would become tough and accustomed to the rays. He did not need that scratchy wool suit provided for all employees so that they would be identical machines of labor. Jerry knew that perhaps he was being foolish by breaking the unwritten law of the ages, but he also knew that he was stronger when not hiding behind the bond of the identical worker. We as a society are progressing towards an era in which we no longer need to hide behind the bond of conformity. My peers and I are the new generation of young people who strive to be tomorrow's leaders. We do not need those constricting wool jumpsuits of ages past, for those navy suits are only covers for difference; difference that was once thought to separate, but instead is beneficial. Jerry realized that his strength lay in his difference - there was no need to hide within the bonds of conformity any longer - just as our strength lies in our diversity. for USC: Me Showing How Gullible and Cheese-ball I Could Be ======= ". . .So I just put a little cocaine on the end of my cigarette and dab it on my gums. Look, I have to. I ain't got no teeth. They wouldn't let me have none when I was in that institution in Milledgeville. . ." As he pulled up his lip to show me his toothless gums, I wondered what I had gotten myself into by allowing him to start a conversation with me. I turned back around to face the front of the bus. Maybe it was my own fault that I felt suddenly let down. I had been gullible enough to believe that this senile, loud, crazy old man really could have been an Olympic-caliber athlete. The moment had held such promise, sharing an experience with someone that I would have been proud to say that I met. Instead, the man turned out to be just a person, a person that any one of us could one day become. It was in that moment I realized it matters not how a situation may seem; it is what we make of it that counts. I looked at Ralph and smiled. Even if all I gained from the experience were a few stories, I wanted to give Ralph the listening ear for which he was so obviously aching. And perhaps he really had been a gold medal winner. for Tufts: Me Showing What a Pathetic Computer Geek I Am ========= I once heard someone describe the on-line community as a place which causes "real life [to become] almost 'blah'," and "People you've known for a long time [to] suddenly seem shallow and self centered." I don't find this to be true at all. Instead, my time on-line has caused me to discover new things about myself which I can take back to my friends outside of the on-line experience. Every time I go on-line, I can feel my mind open to new ideas and possibilities. It gives me new insights to contribute to class discussions or friendly debates. The on-line community not only gave me a whole new set of friends, but it also allowed me to become closer and more involved with the other people in my life in an intellectual manner. I have reaffirmed many of my previously held ideas, and gained new ones through people I met on-line. I made new discoveries in my beliefs concerning God, religion, politics, other nations, and my own morality. I looked more closely at the political candidates as the Presidential elections approached and followed my own discoveries and ideas instead of accepting blindly the beliefs of my parents. Also, I learned about many religions besides the one present in my home. I found that many of my friends didn't necessarily need to be a part of an organized religion to find faith, God, or religious fulfillment. Their beliefs caused me to want to study and read more about other world religions as I decided on the ideology that best suited me. While I have yet to decide where I stand insofar as religion is concerned, when I do decide, it will be with conviction and a deeper understanding. Perhaps I may never find answers to many of my questions, but the friendships I have developed on-line and the people I meet help me to realize many thing that I would not have been aware of otherwise. Sure, sometimes I spend my time with my on-line friends just chatting or making jokes, but in many ways they have helped me to more fully realize who I am. Though I may never see what any of these people look like or meet them in "real-life," many of them are just as valuable and beneficial to me as those friends I have known since childhood. for Brown, maybe?: Me Being Fucking Stupid ================= I never put much stock in dreams before, but there was something about this one that made it important. It was prophetic. Playing it safe was the easy route. "Follow your dreams; take every chance," it told me. I thought then how important it is to always always reach for what seems to lie just out of your grasp. All too often, we only try to achieve those things in which we are guaranteed success. More important, however, is to try for what you are unsure of, what is said to be too difficult or inaccessible. If you try to walk on clouds, you may tumble. But if you don't try, then you underestimate the power of dreams and the strength of clouds. either Brown or Georgetown, or both: Showing How Dorky & Friendless I Am =================================== I looked at Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind's heroine, and she reminded me of our innate desire to be friends with "bad" people. At some point, we are attracted to people who don't behave as we would, but we live vicariously through their deeds. The qualities that I admired in Scarlett and which drew me to her were not necessarily characteristics that I would have liked to have for myself, but it was fun to be with her. . She lived for the moment - threw caution to the wind. Even so, Scarlett had a plan was determined to carry it through to the end. She was often selfish, but she was strong and resolute. I saw what she could accomplish even with the conditions she had to face, and I took some of her will with me. Some of my closest friends weren't always pretty and fun, however. Piggy, for example, from Lord of the Flies was not attractive, but he was kind and intelligent. He had certain qualities that caused me to want to sit and have long conversations with him. Initially, this may have been because I pitied him since he was misunderstood by the other boys, but this was not the only reasons that he was my friend. He was an honest, sincere, loyal and trustworthy being, deserving of friendship not only from myself, but from the other boys in the novel as well. for James Madison University: Me Showing That I Am a Retard ============================ My name is Lindsey, and I am not unique. !!========================================================================!! !! (c) !LA HOE REVOLUCION PRESS! #327 - WRITTEN BY: PezMonkey - 12/11/98 !!