Personal Experience Essays

Every one of us have memories in life it’s either a happy or a sad one. Some of the memories we want to forget especially the sad or hurtful happenings. And we want to remain is the happy memories that we treasure the most. It...

One Day my mom sat me down, Once she did I knew what had happened. This past year, my uncle had been struggling with cancerous tumors. He had finally stopped getting the tumors for a couple months. The first tumor he had gotten was in...

Defining the “Self” What defines a person and shapes them into the individual he or she is meant to be? This is a question that every human being, at some point in their life, thinks about in terms of themselves. Who we are and what...

The organization I volunteered with was Capital Caring. I chose this organization because it helps individuals, mainly elderly individuals, by providing companion to those who need it. Helping people out is what I enjoy doing and Capital Caring gave me that opportunity. Capital Caring first...

Before volunteering, I had little experience of working with children or even managing large groups of people. However, as a volunteer, I managed a group of 15 challenging children for two hours with another first time volunteer. As time goes the children were well behaved,...

For the past two years, I have volunteer experience to be involved in a fundraiser every year in the month of Ramadan (Islamic month), at a donating organization named Islamic Relief. They work to support the marginalized and vulnerable to voice their needs and address...

The life of an individual transforms as the person encounters new ideas that in turn make him gain experience. Therefore, the experience is the best teacher. This implies that people pass through different types of occurrences and wonders that enhance their transformation. For instance, after...

The basketball court is a place I deeply value and appreciate. I literally call this place my second home. Whenever I need to relieve stress or just play for the fun of it, it does it for me. This place varies in looks but serves...

I really did not know what to write about, but I was reminded this morning as I stopped to fuel the car up, of one of my most embarrassing moments since I moved back “home”. It was an early morning and I was off to...

From a young age, I saw my dad’s hard work to provide a better life for me. Every time he left for work with his black suitcase, I would sit on top of it to keep him from leaving. As he walked out the door,...

As a young child, I followed in the footsteps of others; never making goals of my own or leaving my own impressions on the world. I never believed in the old saying, “You can go anywhere, as long as you set your mind to it.”...

Over the past two years I have participated in four sports for Physical Education. They are Aerobics, Touch, Track & Field Athletics and Volleyball. In Aerobics I struggled to overcome stereotypes and self-awareness to achieve at a high level. While training for Touch it was...

Regret When I awoke one morning, there was a peculiar feeling in the air which I didn’t like. It was early in the morning, the sun wasn’t even out yet when my mother told me something that would change my perspective on things forever. Every...

I’ve learned many things through the course of this class. I’ve learned how to write a good essay and how to get batter at some essays I’ve already written in the past. I’ve learned how to locate my resources to find each mistake in my...

Going through life there are many difficult changes and transitions that one faces, but nostalgia has been proven to aid during those tough times. In most modern day films, novels, television shows, etc. there is some form of nostalgia present; it’s usually there to help...

Dear Future Self, On the 7th of July, I will graduate from school finally and start a new exciting chapter at university, as a teenager girl, I held on so many dreams, fantasies, would describe my thoughts better. I wanted so much to travel for...

Go to the mall visit 2 stores. Write a descriptive essay about your experience. My day at the mall, so many stores so little time. Some of the employees ran up to me to greet me and ask if they can help me with anything....

Learning new thing is always challenging for human being. It’s not an easy task to achieve a second language like the mother language but by overcoming our fear and inertia and coming out of the comfort zone can make it easy to acquire not only...

In less than four seconds, I made a decision that would forever change my life. Riding down a dark midnight highway only illuminated by the occasionally passing headlights and the fluorescent ice-blue cast from the screen of my FaceTime Audio call, speaker button on, I...

This personal narrative essay is about my father’s stroke. My father has always been the rock in my family, always supporting my sisters, my mother and I. When my father had a stroke, it was very unexpected and tragic for my family and I because...

When life gets tough at home, how are you supposed to stop that from affecting the rest of your life? If it does affect other aspects of your life, how are you supposed to bounce back and deal with this adversity? After my home life...