It’s that quiet car ride, a time to ponder as the landscape moves in jumps and skips. Or perhaps, in that bustling little café between the art gallery and vintage music shop. Maybe even plopped down on my bed, my face not quite making it onto the pillow. My state of contentment isn’t restricted to one place. I suppose it could be called an environment, for I find my solace in music. Walking out the door, my internal...

Prompt: We are a community with quirks, both in language (we’ll welcome you to Grounds, not campus) and in traditions. Describe one of your quirks and why it is part of who you are. Answer in half a page or roughly 250 words (my word count: 257). “Whoops, wrong language.” Understanding dawns upon my face. A look of puzzlement might linger a little longer on theirs, but, unabashed, I repeat myself in English. Perhaps it won’t be English, but at...

Prompt: What work of art, music, science, mathematics, or literature has surprised, unsettled, or challenged you, and in what way? Answer in half a page or roughly 250 words (currently 254). A pile of yellow light bulbs caught my eye sophomore year. They lay haphazardly on a cart in my English classroom, each the cover of a centennial edition of Anthem by Ayn Rand. The synopsis sparked my interest in what has since become one of my favorite works of literature. I...

I think there's two sides to this. On one hand, there's 4 years to figure out what you want to do, how to get there, where you'll be, etc. In the mean time, just go with it and enjoy college....

My high school had really...