Practice sample student essays

Essay 1It was a beautiful day in late August, kind of warm and very nervewracking for me.Because I was embarking on the most important day in my life, the beginning of mycollege experience. The day began with its normal rituals and everything appeared to befine until I arrived at the college. Suddenly I found myself asking, what am I doing here?Am I really ready for this. I wanted to cry, but I pushed back the tears and plungedonward. Before I knew it, I was pushed amoungst the hustle and bustle of the first day.I must have looked like a child whoe teddy bear was taken from him.Being as how I was truely frightened I desparately tried to find my first class and with theaide of a few older students I successfully found my place.After that things got easier, but not to. The hardest part was yet to come. The adjustmentto new and different people. The biggest difficulty was starting a conversation. Most of thetime you say nothing for the fear of sounding dumb. The first time beginning to talk tosomeone, my voice cracks and I must have turned scarlet red, but I never stuck around tofind out. I ducked out quicly and found the nearest lady’s room.The strange thing about college is its professors. Each has its own technique but the samebasics. One the first day they each tell you what they expect during the semester and thenthey hand you a forty page syllabus of work to be done in fifteen weeks. I had another whowhen every time she spoke sounded like she was having her hand for dinner.People asked me what I thought about my first year in school. My response is simply, “Itwas different”.Essay 2Humankind can’t continue their lives without desires. If one wants to be happy, surely, hehas to discover his best desires that provide him a happy life. Some of these desires thathelp to continue our lives can be acceptance in our relationships, a good family life andstrong social relations. Trying to satisfy these desires has a great meaning to achievehappiness for me.To start with, however embarrassed I am about this desire of mine, I have an obsession toexpect people to accept my thoughts and manners in every situation. Yes, this is not agood characteristic and sometimes makes me an antipathic person but trying to beaccepted by someone can give you happiness, too. Besides, if you can manage to makesomeone love you knowing and accepting all about you, I think that is the absolutehappiness.Furthermore, it seems to me that family is the basic source of happiness. Certainly, I can’talways be a good guy and sometimes I make them upset but I can’t stand seeing themupset. Therefore, I try to do whatever necessary to make them happy. Consequently, whenI see happy family faces, I feel deeply happy.Thirdly, to have friends is one of the most meaningful aspects of life. I believe that oneshould have three very warm friends at least. For example, I can’t bear loneliness and if Icouldn’t share all my heart with these warm friends, I believe that I could never be happy.As a consequence, if you feel like me, it will be worth improving your close relationships inorder to be happy.To recap, humankind has a short life but he is given a lot of desires to be happy. Moreover,if one wants to discover the meaning of his short life, he should look for it in desires.Whether he finds it or not, he will taste happiness just by looking for it.

Essay 3The seperation of community in society is determined by a person social or economicstatus. Nowadays, a person can choose the society or community they thought suits theirlife styles. Community now and then changed drastically because of individualism. Peopletend to think of their happiness before others.In the essay, "The Community as Commodity," Robert B. Reich, illustrated that the moderncommunity tends to have a wide variety of choice wherein a person can choose accordingto their economic status. People who are financially stables tend to have more choices andthey tend to think of themselves rather than others and people who are not financiallystable have limited choices on "the community" they wanted. Those people whosefinancially stable doesnt want to help other people. In connection to Robert B. Reich, "The Community as Commodity," Philip Slaters"Engagement & Detachment: Getting Involved" Slater emphasize that the Americans avoidconfronting chronic social problems wherein he is showing that American think ofthemselves before others.Essay 4Most people want to get married and have children. Perhaps they want to leave a trace oroffspring after them, so that they become somehow “immortal”. And it is commonly saidthat children are the ultimate bliss in our lives. Although many people agree with thisstatement, to my mind, it is not true.Firstly, it is always claimed that having children brings happiness and meaning to one’s life.To raise them well becomes an ideal for parents. However, I think that although this maybe true, children are also a financial and psychological burden for parents. To have childrenis to have responsibility. Parents spend all their time and money on their children, for theireducation, clothing and other needs, and do not have much time or money left forthemselves.Secondly, many people assert that it is in human nature to procreate and to see a part ofthem continue to live. However, I do not believe that it is necessarily instinctive. There area lot of people who do not have any children and they do not have a tendency to see a partof them continue to live. I think having children for this reason is very old-fashioned. Wecan have other accomplishments in life for our name or fame continue.Finally, it is commonly stated that children are our insurance for our old age and that whenwe get older they will take care of us. Although there are many people who think so, Ibelieve that they are no guarantee against loneliness in old age. Usually children, whetherthey are married or not, leave their homes. Besides, it is very selfish to have children forinsurance. If you have a child, you have to accept the fact that he/she is also an individualand has his/her own needs, and will eventually have his/her own life separate from yours.To sum up, for most people it might be the biggest happiness to have children. However, Ifirmly believe that to have children is not everything in life. People can also live full andaccomplished lives without children.

Essay 5As students we all were challenged to do our best. During all our lives we have beenlabeled with our grades, in high school, the ones with low grades were left alone in misery,when the ones with higher grades were preised as the leaders of this horse race. Then, thequestion that come into mind is: is it ok to categorize students and if does gradingcontribute to education?It is said in the philosophy of the current educational system that grading encourageslearning and without grading students would not study. That is far from being real andexpresses also another flaw of our education system. The system is basing on fear: thebasic reason for students to study is being afraid of low grades. More because the gradesare the main criterion for passing courses, students do not study: they just developmethods of cheating. In this way without learning, they pass.So if grades received in exams are more important than learning the object, all studentshave to do to pass their courses is memorize how a specific problem is resolved. They don’tknow why such method is used, so students cannot apply their ability to resolve theproblem to daily life. Still, they pass exams without having knowledge why, how or what ofthe matter.Another disadvantage of grading is that grades of a student are not evoluating. That meansthe grades of a student for the first year of school will still be the same as in the last year,when his knowledge about the subject has got more better or worse. Considering all factorsthat affect a student’s exams and marks, even, a small incident can have a great impact inthe course of time.Apart from these problems which can be virtually solved by optimizing and improving thegrading system, the most important defect of the system cannot be repaired withoutchanging the whole system. The grading system cause inequalitie, superior-inferiorrelations, classifications and even conflicts. It may be said that societies of the modernworld are structured on these basics principles, but the fact that something exists does notexplain it. Moreover, the people grown ups in such an education system will not be able tosee the other side of the wall, or will be afraid even to look glimpse.So, my opinion is that grading students is not a good and must be abolished. It is clear thateducation, namely education during childhood, has a great effect on one’s life. And if youbring the children up in conditions of conflict and competition, they will look for conflicts inthe future too.

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