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

Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence. Mothers often have an important, unbreakable bond with their children. This is especially true for me. My mom has had the biggest influence on who I am today. She has given me the upbringing that is necessary for me to … Read more Mother

A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you. On a chilly November afternoon, I stared past … Read more An Awakening at IncluCity

Life is a journey. To help describe your journey thus far, and to prepare for what lies ahead, what do you bring with you as you travel to Marquette? My life journey changed one January morning as I ascended the stairs to my room. An annoying ache had suddenly appeared near my left shoulder, and … Read more Life, in Perspective

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