Life is Like Play-dough, It Dries Out if You Don't Take Care of it.m by Abby

Life is Like Play-dough, It Dries Out if You Don't Take Care of it.m by Abby - March 2018 Scholarship Essay

I don’t have a very large knowledge base when it comes to children. I grew up the youngest, and only have had brief encounters with people younger than me since then. However, when I look at the majority of children books, and classic authors like Dr. Seuss, I see popularity with metaphors, imagery and rhymes. I’m far too incapable of a poet to rhyme my way through a meaningful explanation as to why furthering our education is important, but I am confident in my ability to make meaningful associations.
If I was given the responsibility to making higher education appealing to kids who still need assistance in blowing their nose, I would completely neglect all of the unappealing “side effects” that come with paying or it. Instead, I would explain it in the following manner:
Life is like play-dough, you can turn it into almost anything you want it to be, but if you don’t take care of it in the right way, its going to dry out and you wont be able to change it into as many things as you once were able to. For example, when you get a fresh hot pink container of modeling dough, you can turn it into almost anything with ease, but if you accidentally forget to clean it up after you are done playing with it, you’re not going to be able to change its shape anymore, and you’re going to be stuck with how you left it. The same thing applies to going to school. When you leave elementary school and go to school with the big kids, you are still working with your fresh modeling clay, and you can turn it into almost anything you want to turn it into, but if after you’re done with high school and you decide to stop playing with your modeling dough, its going to slowly dry up, and you wont have as many choices with what you can do with it.
The importance of college is that it keeps your options options and allows you to change your modeling clay into so many different things. The longer you keep your play-dough moldable, the easier time you will have when you’re older. After-all, you might not want to be stuck with the same thing when you’re eighteen as when you’re 45.