How Did I Spent My Summer Vacation Essay

pass, I find myself fantasizing of going fishing on my papa's lake. He bought the land when I was in kindergarten, and I spent countless hours there each summer running free, learning to fish in our lake, and discovering who I am. My best reminiscences of growing up are in a boat, listening to my papa's stories, with a pole in my hand. I look back now and comprehend that, by teaching me to fish, my papa eventually taught me how to be patient. Before I even really began fishing, my papa…

Senior Brag Sheet Career Choice: I plan to double major in mechanical engineering and finance, but still face some uncertainty in this plan. My interests developed mainly from the push of my parents. Ever since I was a child, the overarching career I was pushed towards was engineer or doctor, so I pushed myself to learn topics that would better support these ideas. Classes such as Scitech gave me an understanding of what engineers do which provided me with a great deal of interest. Other clubs…

them know just how excited we are. The meeting also gave us an opportunity to stand up before our community and represent not only ourselves but the Ivy League Connection as a whole. In the weeks leading up to the meeting, Don let us know that one representative from each cohort would be speaking to the Board of Education, but they would have to be pretty speedy as we were only allotted 5 minutes in total. On the Vanderbilt side, Hawi volunteered to be our speaker, and Shreejal did the same…

not to spend their time reading, but instead on some type of device. A survey of 2,558 US parents and children carried out by YouGov and Scholastic shows how the number of children who say they enjoy reading for fun has dropped 10% in just the past five years. Out of the parents, 71% of them stated: “I wish my child would do more things that did not involve screen time” (Flood). Reading helps a child to gain knowledge as well as expand their imagination, but the technology many seem to find…

“What I Did This Summer?” This summer I participated in many exciting events. I helped my dance studio with a dance camp and I spent a few days with my friends. The most exciting thing I did this summer was that my family and I went on a trip to Italy. I have gone to Italy only once before, and I was in fourth grade and it was my second time going to Europe. I love all the different cultures and the people I meet. In Italy everyone is kind and they try to speak English, even though they…

Throughout middle school, though I didn't realize it at the time, I was socially awkward. I had trouble speaking my mind, starting conversations, and couldn't speak to a girl to save my life. During my freshman year of high school, things changed drastically and my social anxiety dissipated, but symptoms remained, the most obvious of which was stage-fright. Project…

specifics, I have always been a dreamer, and a vivid one at that. It's no surprise, then, that I one embarked on a journey to take control of my dreams: to learn the art of lucid dreaming. It sounds pretentious to put…

Ever since I was in elementary school, I always wanted to grow up and not have to go to school anymore. However, looking back, all that changed. I did not realize how life was so much more easier. The fact is, life was easy because the less I understood, the better. Elementary school was the most memorable time of my life. The transition from each grade in elementary school was terrifying for me. I had to get used to a new school year and I did not like that. I remember every first day of…

during their summer vacation doing service while at school; however, that is exactly what I and each of the other participants on my Adventure WV Habitat trip did at the end of this June. I really enjoyed this trip because although most people could not imagine spending a week disconnected from technology, I actually found it to be refreshing, and I found that it helped me to stay more engaged with the activities of the trip as well as with the other participants. During our time spent helping…

Light At the End of the Tunnel Although Jeannette Walls and I share a common thread of being hospitalized at a young age, it is my belief after reading The Glass Castle that Jeannette had it far worse than I ever did. In The Glass Castle, Jeannette shares how she spent over a month in a hospital due to burns after she tried to make herself hot dogs. The time that Jeannette spent in the hospital was like a vacation from her crazy life and parents. She relished the time in the hospital because it…