Marquette University

Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you? For many of my friends, summer break means swimming at the local pool and hanging out at our downtown movie theater. Yet for me, summer means traveling 6,000 miles to a … Read more Home Away From Home

Describe a leadership experience you have had. My stomach lurched violently as if it had been caught on a fishhook and jerked suddenly forward. The scene before me, a bunch of shorts and t-shirt clad high school marching band kids puffing through various instruments, swayed and became blurry, as if separated from me by a … Read more From Stomach-Churning to Leadership

Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you? The piano is predictable. If I hit the right key, it will play the same note every time, and if I play a song correctly, there will always be harmony. Life … Read more Feel the Music

Describe a significant experience or achievement that has special meaning to you. Instead of racing off to Florida’s ever popular and over-crowded beaches, I spent my junior year’s spring break sleeping in a room without air conditioning, cold showers, cleaning up trash, picking weeds, and wiping little kids’ runny noses. Punishment? Forced community service? Guess … Read more The Spring Break That Changed My Life