Colorado State University Admission Essays

There is no better teacher than failure. To gain wisdom, one must encounter an incident, event or an adventure. Experience, on the other hand, is what you get from failing. I know this because I failed, and that turned my life around in a way…

As the daughter of Colombian parents and a native to the Garden State of New Jersey, I always found joy and curiosity in the variety of flora and fauna I was exposed to. Playing outside amongst the colorful flowers my sisters and I watered, filling…

Growing up to be a first-generation college student was a special moment in my life. Even though I had numerous challenges during my first months in college, I considered it a great achievement. At the end of my high-school education, I had to attend a…

Flying in the sky was once a far-fetched dream. But now in the 21st century, man-made birds weighing 200,000 times heavier than the seagulls are moving through the air. It is all down to the fundamental ideas of flight first experimented by the Wright Brothers…

Science has always been my fascination right from  childhood, and I was keen to continue my academic to pursuit in the field to turn out my interests and curiosities into realities. I am interested in Biomedical Engineering as a field to pursue my career. I…

If I were a time traveler, I would go to what is now the southwestern area of the United States during the 1100’s. I would go there because I have always been fascinated with Native Americans. I am particularly interested in the Anasazi, “Ancient People”…

It’s electric really, the feeling I get when I know what I want to do to the paper. It’s even better when I have the pencil in my hand, loaded with lead, and with plenty of eraser (I’ll be using both extensively). It’s the thing…

And there I was: sitting in front of a school computer on a cheap plastic chair, my hands resting on a desk stained to look like wood. It was early in the morning and in the middle of my second semester of my freshman year…