Home is not always a place where you live. Home isn’t always where you spend time with family or eat dinner. Such places are superficial, almost superfluous. Home is where you can truly be yourself, like nowhere else in today’s world. Home is where you never have to worry about being judged, and where you can be absolutely comfortable. For me, my home is the band room. The first time I ever stepped foot in my high school's...

Wallace Bacon, an eminent literary scholar, wrote that the liberal arts, or humanities, "are concerned with the question of what makes life worth living." In light of this, tell us about a meaningful work of literature (poetry or prose), piece of music, or work of art, and describe how it illustrates Wallace's point. What is its significance to you personally and/or academically? Music has long been an important part of my life, from the time I picked up the...

Many years from now, you are looking back on your life and writing your memoirs. What would be the highlights and why? Talk about who you hope to have been as a colleague, citizen and agent for positive change. (200-500 words) High school is not all about the homework and the grades and the relationships and the drama. High school is the time where you start to branch out into the world, start to move away from home, and take...

"You don’t become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - Randall Munroe '06, webcomic and xkcd founder. In your opinion, what qualities define a great leader? (200-500 words) The main objective that any leader should hold, despite how high their status is, is to earn the respect of his/her followers by helping them improve. One cannot lead...

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