College Admissions Essay: The Power of the Mind and Spirit

The Power of the Mind and Spirit   Confucius compares education to the sculpting of marble. He said, scarcely as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated men are free men. I see college as an irreplaceable time in my life when I can begin my journey to find the freedom that Confucius so eloquently describes. While in college, I want my education to wager me face to face with the awesome power of the human spirit and the human mind working together to achieve the beautiful and the revolutionary.   I believe that in that respect is no nobler purpose than the endeavor to find freedom, and having said this, I want my college education to be more than an attempt to earn a degree. It is my hope that because of college I will realize...