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, meet 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 clip in my life when I can begin my journey to envision the freedom that Confucius so eloquently describes. While in college, I fate my education to bring me face to face with the awesome power of the charitable spirit and the human mind working together to achieve the beautiful and the revolutionary.   I believe that there is no nobler purpose than the endeavor to fall out freedom, and having said this, I want my college education to be more than an onrush to earn a degree. It is my hope that because of college I will realize...