College Essay

       The car screeches to a halt as I jump out of my car and race to the mailbox.  I grab the stack of mail and run into the house.  “Is today the day?” I anxiously thought to myself, sorting through, looking for my name on a letter.  Finally I found it: a letter from the UNL college.  I opened the letter quickly and started skimming it.  I was accepted into their college!

            I’m only in eighth grade, but going to college has always been a huge dream of mine since I was young.  I’ve always imagined the day of coming home and finding an acceptance letter to UNL, the college I’ve always wanted to go to.  UNL College isn’t only important to me, but it’s also now a history to my family.  My dad and my uncle went to UNL College to make their dreams come true, along with my four cousins, 2 of them still currently students.  I would also love to go to UNL because I know it has a great learning program.  Along with my family history, going to college would still be a great experience. 

            College is important to me because I think it’s very crucial to get a further education.  Also, college can assure me that I can have a well-planned future.  Besides getting more intelligent, college is a great time in my life to learn how to be myself, because my parents won’t always be there telling me what to do or how to help me.  I would have to make my own decisions: it could help me grow up.  College additionally can build people’s character. 

            Every girl dreams the same thing: to grow up, have a family, and live happily ever after.  I’m not saying that I don’t want that, because I do, but I want to make something of myself.  Even though I don’t exactly know what I want to be when I’m older, I think I might want to be a lawyer.  If I ever did want to be a lawyer, I would have to get really good grades and study hard.  It wouldn’t be exactly easy, but it would be possible.  I’m not a person that likes easy things; I like to have a little bit of a challenge, which being a lawyer would give me.

            I image the day of receiving a college application letter over and over in my head.  College is a great place to get a further education for something I enjoy doing.  College could help me grow up and become my own person because it would teach me responsibilities.  To get there I would have to work hard on keeping my grades up.  Going to college has always been a dream of mine; a dream that I would like to become a reality.

Dailey Blogger March 19

            On Tuesday, March 19, it was a normal day at O’Neill Schools.  It started out as a normal morning of walking into the lunchroom to get my normal breakfast: fruit snacks and apple juice.  Then a normal day of classes: math and science, but then in social studies, we started to talk about the Cold War.  With learning this lesson, our class is going to make a re-creation of the Rosenberg Trial.  My part in the trial is being Roy Cohn, a Prosecution lawyer.

            Then the day was normal through reading, study hall, and lunch, but in English we started learning about a “Why I Want to Go to College” essay contest.  With this contest, all of the students get to write an essay persuading the UNL College for why we want to go to college and why we think college is important.  We all started off by writing a pre-write of our essay.  Our pre-write is basically how we want our essays to look and what information will be in each paragraph.

            We finished off the day with a normal class of business trends and then went outside for a normal day of track.  Overall, I think I would say today was a normal day.

In the picture on the side, it shows Jason and Sabrina finishing their pre-write for the "Why I Want to Go to College" essay.

Favorite Place in NE

            The rocky broken in path of the driveway comes into my peripheral view as my dad drives our pickup up towards the bright green gate with an old rusted lock on it.  As we open the gate and drive down the driveway, our tan and green cabin comes into view at the end of an oval of trees circling the main part of our ranch.  My ranch along the Niobrara River is one of my favorite places because whatever we do, we have fun doing it. Whenever we have time, my family and I like to try and head out to our ranch.  Some of the fun things we do are ride 4-wheelers, go tubing, and roast marshmallows.

            Riding 4-wheelers is something fun I can do during any time of the year.  I can ride in the summer or in the winter, even though the fall is my favorite season.  The best part about riding is that I can go pretty much wherever I want.  I could go to the crystal creeks, or the black, fire-burnt tree areas.  I could go to my uncle’s ranch, being there in a blink of an eye, or to the other half of our ranch, seeming like it takes days to get there.

            The clear-blue rapids of the river make me want to jump in right away.  Ignoring my instinct, I wait until I can grab a tube to float down the river peacefully.  Since the river is normally shallow, that makes our tubing trips involve a lot of walking.  Walking isn’t always a bad thing.  Water wars start and laughing begins while everyone has a great time.

            Even though we don’t do it often, roasting marshmallows has always been a favorite of mine.  Just by the cabin, to the left when you go in, there’s a circle of rocks with a stick teepee in the middle of it.  My dad lights the match, making the sticks scream and burst up in flames.  The huge, fluffy marshmallows slide onto the roasting stick perfectly.  The fire slowly heats the marshmallow, making it expand like a glowing cloud.  As I put the sticky marshmallow in my mouth, it melts like butter.

            Some people would think that going to a ranch in the middle of nowhere would be boring.  I don’t think so.  They obviously aren’t doing the right things.  Doing the right things isn’t everything, it’s also spending time with your family or people you enjoy being around.  Riding 4-wheelers, tubing, and roasting marshmallows is always fun, but spending time with your family is the best part. 

           

Summer in the Middle of Nowhere

The rocky broken in path

Comes into peripheral view

The bright green gate

With an old rusted lock

The tan and green cabin

In an oval of trees

The hot black seat

Of the four-wheeled beast

Roars to life when I press

The florescent green button

Riding anywhere

Crystal creeks

To black, fire-burnt trees

Or Uncle’s ranch

There in a blink of an eye

Floating down the clear waters

Being almost put to sleep

Then water wars

And laughter begins

Everyone having a great time

Circle of rocks with a stick teepee

Lighting a match making the sticks scream

And burst up in flames

The white gooey cloud on a stick

Heats perfectly

The middle of nowhere

Spending time with your family

At our cabin near

The Niobrara River

Sitting there

Making memories

NE Photo Poem

The famous hard skiing trail

On our Nebraskan land

With no snow

Comes up ahead as we all stop

The blazing sun was like fire

On my black boots

Heating the tasteless water in my water bottle

So its not ice cold anymore

I walk to the edge of the even ground

Peering over what seems like

The end of the world

Preparing myself to not fall

Sitting on the edge of the cliff

I gripped the graveled rock

Pulling my arm back like a windup

And throwing as hard as I can

The rock hits the clear blue rapids

Behind the cedar trees’ twisted line

With a quite splash

Ruining the silence

Behind those warped trees

Anything could be there

A smelly people-eating giant

Or a rainbow colored dragon

My stomach stated snarling

Concluding that I was hungry

So I grabbed the unopened box

Of chocolate-y oatmeal cream pies

Standing slightly sideways in the silence

I realized the cliff could be like a sanctuary

Calming all my senses 

And at an instant giving me a place to think

Dailey Blogger February 14

            On the day of February 14, it’s not only Valentines Day, but it’s also my birthday!  As I walked around the school this morning, I was overpowered by the scent of flowers.  I could see that FCCLA was selling carnations.  Even though I didn’t get a flower from a special someone, my friend managed to give me a flower, putting a smile on my face.

            In our science class we are working on making a rap about Pangaea and plate tectonics.  Our group managed to get almost half of ours done during the class period.  In Civics we finished up our recreation of the Constitutional Convention.  Although the person I was representing didn’t sign the constitution, I got the honors of making the first speech about the Virginia Plan the week before.  In reading we read a story and answered some questions about it as a practice for our Unit test tomorrow.

            English class was fun today.  We each found a picture with scenery and wrote some details about it.  Another students asked some questions about the picture to make us describe it the best we could.  After we started describing the picture, we wrote a few descriptive paragraphs about it to help us with our poems we have to write.  

This was the picture I decided to use for English.  

Photo Credit: Katie Morrow

     At the end of the day as I was walking from the activities building back towards the gym after P.E., I was given flowers.  I opened the card and found that my dad sent me flowers.  Just like my friend did, my dad put a smile on my face.  Overall, I don’t think today was just an average day, but maybe it’s because today was Valentines Day.