It's like a fish that keeps slipping from my grasp, or an old dream hanging on the edge of my tongue. Every time I think I have it snared, I shake my head and decide it isn't good enough. It must be perfect, everyone says, but what is perfect? Can style perfect an essay, or is it only the essay itself that matters, and the message it holds within its scrambled alphabet? I could begin with a serious tone,...

Short story and poetry portfolio

I only had to submit one essay, and it is the one included above.

My advice is to start out doing everything you would like to do and slowly weed the things that don't really matter from the things that do....

I chose based on three things. The first was whether the school had the program I was looking for. The second was how...

I was a better writer than other applicants. I was one of ten kids out of eighty to receive the Janet...

Since I'm only a sophomore in college, I'm not completely sure what I want to do once I graduate. That is the wonderful thing about college, it...