| Term Paper Title |
Good College Essay |
| # of Words |
534 |
| # of Pages (250 words per page double spaced) |
2.14 |
good college essay
Over the past few years, I have overcome many challenges. But the one that
stands out in my mind the most occurred this past summer while I was working as a
Counselor-in-Training at Camp Morasha. I, along with 40 other people my age, was
assigned to bunks of kids ranging from ages eight to fifteen. I can still remember looking
up at the list and seeing that I had been assigned to a bunk of nine and ten year olds. I felt
violated because I felt that I deserved a bunk of older kids, not a bunk full of little children
who had never heard of personal hygiene. After all, I had been a camper in this camp for
seven years, much longer than most of the other C.I.Ts. I almost quit on the first day,
when I saw that the counselor that I had been assigned to work with did not intend on
doing anything besides sleeping.
Although I usually enjoy working with young children, this was not my idea of
how to enjoy a summer vacation. But I decided to perservere, hoping to be switched to
another bunk. Alas, no such switch came, and I was driven to the brink of insanity by
these innocent looking young devils. These kids saw nothing wrong with playing sports
inside the bunk (and breaking three windows while doing so), going weeks without
showering, or with not going to sleep.
I soon realized that however insane these kids seemed to be, they were not as
unreasonable as I had originally thought. They just had to be given suitable reasons or
alternatives. And it was ...Read entire document
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