COMMON APP ESSAY TOPIC OF CHOICE: "EXPERIENCE IS THE BEST TEACHER" Daniel Guerrero My whole life I’ve been told practice makes perfect. Whether it’s in the tennis court or in math class‚ the more you practice something‚ the better you become at it. In the last few years I’ve found out that practicing and doing is not the same thing. Harry Callahan once said‚ _"experience is the best teacher"_ and without a doubt it is. You can sit five hours taking a business class or 10 hours in a tennis practice
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there are many important times. One of them is childhood . Some people may argue that childhood is the happiest time in a person’s life‚ other think that it isn’t so. But for me ‚ I had the happiest memories as well as the saddest memories in childhood. When I was a child ‚ the world seemed to be a place of a joy and happiness to me. There was nothing worth worrying about because my parents always looked after me .Also ‚ I lived with the full of my grandmother’s love .I used to live in the small
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My childhood The first feeling I can remember is wind rushing through my hair. I was five‚ riding a bicycle on my way to the park to meet my older cousins and friends so we could play baseball. At least that is what I think I was doing; it is the first thing that comes to mind whenever someone asks me what my earliest memory is. However the most vivid thing about that memory is the wind and the fact that I was wearing a light blue shirt‚ the brain is weird that way. Though whenever I think about
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My childhood – memory Every person has a special memory; sometimes we remember it in our mind or by photo or video. But the beautiful memories we can’t forget them. And I think every one has his/her special thing to say when some one asks hem/her about the thing we remember it and we can’t forget. In this essay I want to write about what happened‚ how I felt at the time and why I still remember this event. Now‚ I want to tell you my story. Also I think bad behavior it was stoked with my character
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shrewdness than on political theory‚ and the rich businessman further on practical ability than on the degree in economics. If success in life is to be measured in terms of money‚ power and position‚ it is the practical man who succeeds most often. Experience has taught him when to buy and when to sell‚ whom to trust and whom to suspect‚ whom to make friends with and whom to ignore. The title also suggests that we tend to take more notice of the lessons of life than the lessons of our teachers in
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Adversity Bringing Out The Best or Good? Recently a tragedy has occurred in New York and many other states being known as “Hurricane Sandy” leaving a mark on our lives. Sometimes in life when natural disasters occur or in general when unfortunate cases occur adversity can truly bring out the real person whether for good or bad. I personally believe adversity brings out the best because in most cases you see people helping by any means and actually some have sacrificed their lives just
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My Childhood Have you ever thought about a stage of life that you would like to do again? When I was 9 years old‚ I always told my mom that I wanted to be 15 years old. Every day‚ I yearned for being a teenager. Now that I am 16 years old‚ I wish I were the little girl who did not have any worries or reponsabilities. During our lives‚ we have to pass through many stages since we are born until we die that define our characteristics and personalities. Each one is special and unforgetable. However
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If there exists only one truth in this world than it’s the fact that there are no days like childhood. Childhood is the best phase of everyone’s life. The good thing about those days is we are immature. Immature to truly understand the world‚ immature to understand relationships. Perhaps one chocolate is more than enough to make someone our friend. When some one asks us to choose between a hundred rupee note and few iron coins‚ the child in us shall always choose the iron coins. We have been given
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The Best and The Worst Since the birth of the first humanbeing‚ humanity always invented new things to feed their needs. Some inventions were really filling a blank and made people take one more step further to new questions and needs but some inventions seemed so innocent and useful till humanity become captives of them and forgot about living. In the first ages of human life‚ people were collecting; fruits and seeds to feed themselves‚ rocks to create places tol ive‚ leaves to cover their
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It was weird how just suddenly my seniors had told us to head back to our room. It was only seven in the evening and we had not eaten our supper yet. Without declining their instruction‚ my friend and I walked back to our room with a lot of questions in our heads. Known as troublemakers at the camp‚ we had the feeling that something uncanny was about to happen. As I opened the door‚ I was startled to find darkness occupying our room as candles were lit on every corner of the room. A cold breeze
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