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4. What is the most important thing about you a college admissions officer should know? Write about a paragraph on this. If you can’t come up with enough words, add details or answer why it’s important

Some caveats for journals:
Your journal MAY NOT be a spiral bound notebook. (Sorry – I do not want spiral paper shreds or spiral bound paper assignments turned in.)
Your journal may be lined or unlined – you decide what works for you. If you love to doodle or sketch to clarify your thoughts or capture detail, consider
A Note About confidentiality: I encourage you to take risks in your journal writing: write in ways you have not before, and do not worry about spelling and punctuation and grammar in here. Be willing to be honest in your thinking or emotions when you write. I am not saying you should tell me all your deepest darkest secrets. Nor am I telling you to refrain from writing about personal subjects (if you feel the need to do that). But you must realize that the law requires me (and I would want to anyway) to report anyone who tells me that someone is hurting them, they are hurting themselves, or they are harming others.

3. Fill a page or two with your general impressions from your first weeks back at school. This can be sketches, descriptions, random thoughts, lists, free writing, day by day “diary” entries, poems, song lyrics, overhead conversations, quotes, snippets from your class notes or lectures – whatever will capture on paper your first week back at school

2. Draw your own calendar -- it can be for the month of September or for the entire school year.
Mark some important events. Be creative.

1. Find a journal that you are comfortable with – lined or unlined
Please try to stay away from journals that already have sayings or quotes – if you like that, add your own

JOURNALS
This year you will maintain a journal for Composition class. Your journal will hold a collection of thoughts, ramblings, lists, drawings, doodles, quotes, passages you like, clippings from newspaper or magazines, overhead conversations, descriptions, rants, and all the ephemera of an active brain. Most great writers (and naturalists) are journal keepers – it’s where writing becomes second nature to them.
I will collect your journals approx. every four – six weeks.
Your journals will become a source of inspiration for papers, a way to work through your thoughts on readings, a conversation that you have with me and with yourself. Often times, your journal entry may become the starting point for the day’s discussion or a discussion with a classmate or group. It is essential that you keep up with journal work.
My hope for you is that this daily practice of writing your thoughts and capturing moments on paper will become a pleasure, rather than a task.

8. Google search your own name. Write about the search result that is the closest to your name but isn’t you. (You can write about what comes up when you search your name also)

(7). Do the same thing for yourself ten years from you – you’ll be approx. 27 or 28 years old. (At least one half page)

(6). Write / draw the perfect vision for yourself at the end of this year. Write this entry using 1st person as a short story. For example: June 7, 2013. As I walk across the stage to receive my high school Honors diploma, I can hear the cheers of my entire family. When I get back to my seat, my high school sweetheart kisses me on the cheek and tells me that he too got into Stanford University. I’m so excited! I can’t believe that we’re both going to the same college, and not just any college, but my first choice. Etc., etc. (At least one half page)

“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
————Annie Dillard

Doodle,
Add Notes,
Write Down a Due Date:

5. On a large sheet of paper in the top left corner, write your favorite color, such as Yellow.You can also do this later on other pages in other ways, such as with the name of a relative or your home town, etc.
Make a list of things that word reminds you of, such as canary, lemon, tweety-bird dress in 1stgrade, mom’s kitchen wall, etc. Take some time to generate a long and varied list.
Next to one item on the list, blow out a new list to the right, such as next to lemon, I might write Cousin Ruby’s lemonade, family reunion July 4, 1982, …

Debbie Millman