College App Question

  For this entry, I thought that I would post my answer to one of my college application essays. I won't say what school this question was from, or even explicitly state the question; I'm only going to post my response. (is this even ohkay?) The reason I want to publish this is because this is one of the only essay questions in which I was really able to display my personality, proficiency as a writer, and creativeness, all at the same time. Bear in mind though; college applications are TEDIOUS, and this university was among the last that I applied to, so I was a bit tired of the essay-writing. So some of it may not make too much sense, or be extremely well-written, but that's alright.
  Hope you enjoy it.

            ‘And after I would have followed that rainbow for miles and miles, I would have come to the end of it. And at that end, would be a pot of gold, along with a Leprechaun population, whom I would spend the rest of my days with, living in peace and prosperity.’

            Pretty original, right? This probably sounds like the cliché junk that you may have read on other applicants’ essays. Well, to your and my relief, I am nowhere near that cliché, nor unimaginative.

            Whenever I see a rainbow, the logical side of me sees it as a natural phenomenon occurring due to interactions between water and photons from the sun. But then the creative side of my starts to get thinking, and I wonder: What lies over that rainbow?

            I’m not going to lie; when I have such a thought, it usually lasts for about 3.5 seconds before my interest moves to topics with easier answers, like chemistry homework, or SAT problems. So to answer this question today, it did take some serious thought. And at the end of such serious pondering, I constructed an answer.

            On the other side of the rainbow, I hope to find a young new world, which is populated by inhabitants not of the human species. I imagine these beings to be what society commonly calls “aliens”: bipedal, but having different body forms, characteristics, and genetic makeup from that of humans. These being would reproduce asexually, meaning that all individuals would conceive offspring (although I would think that sexual intercourse could be optionally engaged in, because…well, come on). And this world would be a utopia.

            The reason I pose such a situation is because to me, a rainbow is a symbol of all things good. And, the unflattering truth is, our current world isn’t all that good. So upon looking over the rainbow, I would hope that such standards hold true.

            The reason I don’t see humans ruling that utopia universe falls along the lines of the thinking of Thomas Hobbes: humans aren’t good people. This being said, I would imagine the foreign creatures to be “good”—unbiased, good-natured, and selfless.

            Finally, with the conditions I have set here today, I see this world reaching far beyond our wildest imaginations as far as science and technology is concerned. And it will all stem from the fact there are solely good intentions for everything that they create and put work into.

            From looking at a rainbow, I gain a little bit of hope that there is indeed a strip of good in this evil world we live in. And over that rainbow, I dream of my ‘hope’ being a reality, where the tables for good and evil are turned, and a truly good world does exist.