【正文】
small laws of physics do not apply to balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic and my bills are all weekends, to let off steam, I participate in fullcontact ago, I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it have made extraordinary fourcourse meals using only a Mouli and a toaster breed prizewinning have won bullfights in San Juan, cliffdiving petitions in Sri Lanka and spelling bees at the have played Hamlet, I have performed openheart surgery and I have spoken with I have not yet gone to college.”*Need we say more? Chancellor, sign this young man up for a .!*To minimize clutter, we have disregarded the convention of placing a new open quotation mark at the beginning of each new :Department of Electrical EngineeringHenan Polytechnical University Zhengzhou City, Henan ProvincePeople39。ve Ever Read If we describe a college application essay as the best we have ever read, that is saying a lot, because we must have read through hundreds of of the models we have produced through our own efforts are also quite good, if we do say so our hat is definitely off to the author of the essay reproduced here, attributed to one Hugh Gallagher, who reportedly submitted it in 1990, at the age of 18, to New York University, where he was essay won first prize in the humor category of the 1990 Scholastic Writing Awards, appeared in Literary Cavalcade and Harper’ would like to thank Susie of San Francisco for passing this essay our way, thereby