Journal #2

I changed my text twice because at first I wanted to write about my face book page because it seemed pretty easy, but then I realized I barely even update my status's enough to analyze them. So, I ended up writing about my college essay. Only because it was SO easy to write about since I tried so unbelievably hard to impress the colleges I was trying to get into...but come on everyone did that. In the story "Pass", Boyer Rickels was trying to get across the idea that through out the main characters life he questioned his sexuality putting up a persona by being some one else in front of his friends and not expressing him self or being proud of it. I would relate my college essay to this story because I felt like while writing my college essay, I not only tried to make my self sound as this "perfect" girl who would be great for there perfect college, but I changed who I really was. I will never forget giving my college essay to my brother and him responding, " this does not sound like you". I relate the two because in both we lost our identity in the process only to impress others. Some differences would be that he chose not to say anything to his friends or be confident of the fact that he was gay and it was more of a life long front that he put up, when mine was basically a really exaggerate piece of paper written so they can know myself in a nutshell. But together, in the end, they both are about acceptance and putting up a persona of someone your not.