College Essays. How Do They Work?

Human beings are the dominant specie on the Earth. During an enormous period of time, they evolved into something unique and intelligent.

Unlike most of the creatures, they evolved not the claws and fangs, but the brain. The developed part of the big hemispheres is called neocortex, and the central nervous system (CNS) changed dramatically.

 

We received the true gifts. All the amenities of higher nervous functions as:

 

- planning;

- forecasting;          

- analysis;

- comparison;

- multidimensional decision-making;

- consideration of variables.

 

Humans became more intelligent, operating with the surrounding area a few steps ahead of other mammals. The CNS evolution resulted in an unprecedented thing, a personality. We all are very similar, but still each of us has the potential to do the things so drastically different from the others. That is why the animals are predictive and consequently controlled, unlike the humans who may create a masterpiece or destroy the whole nation.

 

Personality is a logical output of higher nervous functions that in combination give different human nature, temper, inclinations and desires. Human is the only specie that doesn’t adapt to, but adapts the outer world to its own goals.

 

The king of the nature has a voluntary attention that allows him to realize his own mind and discern the line between own will and the will of the others; listen to the wind of changes or become it, and bring the new meanings. This is how the scientific progress works. People push the limit of their understanding and make the life better. Thousands years ago no one could imagine to live in a convenient ‘cave’ with hot water, with a box that preserves food from spoiling and a little ‘rock’ to speak with other tribe mates living miles away.

 

So the voluntary attention is a ground to express personal will and bring changes. Education as a process of passive and active studying has always concerned to reveal the talents of children, to identify the weak spots and amplify the strong sides.

 

In high school, the pupils are sometimes given the task to write a little essay and tell about something. It doesn’t matter what they write, but teachers know well that the very process of self-expression is too much important. The skill of argumentation and lining the words in a comprehensive and simple sequence is hard to overestimate.

 

In the college and university the essays become more specific. Socrates once said that true knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. Academic years of sleepless nights approach students closer to Socrates and his philosophy. It may be interpreted as following: the more you know, the deeper you have to engulf in the given field of the study in order to find more sophisticated and useful knowledge.

 

How can we plunge into the sea of complicated matters and return with something valuable and call it our precious?

 

The scientific approach states that we can and should. Students should conduct personal scientific research, and the essay they write is a solidified studying experience, the general report of the whole education and an attempt to push the limits in the selected subject. And here comes voluntary attention and active position of will to be successful.

 

Moreover, the essay requires from students to read a lot of books, references and articles to delve deeper in the studying. Reading, thoughts composition, and writings are a memory chart where you store, systemize and reproduce data on paper. The ink symbols indirectly reflect what the student has in his/her mind. The essay, among the subject itself, represents many things about the author: the dominant type of perception, the imprints of socialization, lexicon, ability for abstract thinking and much more.

 

The greatest magic is to jump further in the paper mirror and find out how deep the rabbit hole truly is.

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