do anything to help others. My leadership skills and ability to persevere will greatly influence the community and the university. There is no other university that I would want to attend other than St. Lawrence which is why I decided to apply early decision. The value of a St. Lawrence education is incomparable to many colleges around the country and is one that I wish that have a part in. But I may need to reopen my college search to find another college that fits my family's financial situation
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months since my last letter and through that time a lot of new things happened to me. I have finished my second year, successfully if I may add, and went out to semester vacation, which unfortunately ended two weeks ago. During the summer I spent time working at the coffee place near my house, and spent a lot of time with my family do to the fact that my older sister gave birth to my beautiful niece. They've named her Evellin, and she's almost one month old. I've tried to help my sister as
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Disney World, spring break, preparation for AP exams, and the excitement for graduation all made the seniors eager for the summer. The countdown had begun. We thought that a survey focusing on summer was a great idea to get a large sample size since many students would be interested in the topic. Even though, our main focus was the seniors and their thoughts about the summer, we also wanted to know what the underclassmen had to say about this topic. We distributed our surveys to a large population
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businesses were operating without his presence. The town he was vacationing in only had one location with reliable cell service, a phone booth inside the local grocery store. On his much-needed two-week vacation, Johnson made multiple trips to the phone booth in-between his enjoyment of his family vacation. Work never stops when you are a business owner. Johnson has worked in food service since he was 13 and helped his mother, Berniece Johnson, run her first business, a drive-in restaurant, in Monona
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I spent most of my childhood summers in Morocco. There was a point in my life when I believed In my eyes , Morocco was a completely flourishing beautiful country where people lived out their exuberant lavish lifestyles surrounded by beaches and amidst tropical weather,then I started traveling within its borders. One summer vacation, my mother decided to take me,my brother and my sister to what she liked to call the countryside of Morocco. The countryside of Morocco turned out to acres of barren land
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on self experience I used to be. The city life: busy, pressure, hard work, achievement, convenience, shopping, movie, entertainment, the air pollution, the busy mass transmission system, my parents, my siblings, coldness between people, everything is complex The country life: my old and stubborn grandpa, my tender grandma, the nostalgia, the tangerine garden, the old house, living on the mountain, fresh air, comfortable atmosphere, the life without worry, get up early, quiet, seldom going to
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By my wife’s ancestral home flows a river. For a dozen summers I have visited it, and almost every year I make an effort to trace its course back to its source in the neighboring hills; I do not consider my vacation there complete without doing this. In common with others streams of its kind, our river suffers much from the summer drought. I have seen it so shrunken that fish lay lifeless on the parched sand and gravel of its bed. But this summer I saw something I never had been sufficiently observant
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that I put my mind to. No matter who says I can’t, I will show them that I can and will become a better person And become educated with all the information I need to succeed. A college education is very important, it can open many doors, provide many opportunities and advantages that will help with my future occupation and I will be able to get a better paying job with the knowledge I have. I will be able to support my family
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I needed to escape from all the pressure to be perfect. My mom expected me to get all of my summer school work done and research colleges, my boss expected me to work forty hours a week, my family expected me to go on vacations with them, and my friends expected me to talk to them 24/7. I wanted to do it all but I felt like I was only doing these things for them and never doing anything just for me. I had been stuck in this routine of waking up, going to work, working on homework, looking at colleges
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nature in full bloom, to nature in hibernation. The signs of this transition are everywhere. The vivid colors of summer fade away, the color of the sky changes from deep blue to gray. The green fades from the grass and plants lose their blossoms. The leaves on the trees turn color, and lose their grip. Insects disappear. It's the tune of year that signifies the end of summer and vacations. No more picnics, swimming, baseball, tennis, and a myriad of other activities that most of us enjoy in the outdoors
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