I want to marry my college!

Mr. Schmalzbauer always finds ways to make simple things symbolic. You might think that the poem is a monolog because... it is a monolog, but in reality the absence of any other characters is crucial. You might think that a jazz musician giving a speach about depravity in jazz is natural, but to Mr. S it is a telling metephor about the person themselves. So today I was faced with a conflict while applying to college, and I realized that it was at first glance a simple thing that was really symbolic. Here is the essay I wrote:

In the same way an alcoholic says, “I don’t have a drinking problem - I find it very easy to drink,” most high school seniors can say, “I don’t have a problem with pride. I can glorify myself in a short statement easily.” I would have said the same thing had I not been in Mr. Lasseter’s philosophy class. Mr. Lasseter taught me, without ever even mentioning the subject, that short personal statements and résumés have a fatal flaw. The truest testament to a man’s character is his past, but résumés don’t reflect the most admirable qualities of men’s pasts, the qualities that would most enrich your community because résumés only reflect measurable qualities.
Most classes have a limited filed of study: biology means “the study of living things” and historia is Latin for “narrative or story, but philosophy’s scope is far more daunting; philosophy teaches the “love of wisdom.” Truly loving wisdom necessitates a mortification of other loves. Wealth, honors and power no longer hold the same grip on man’s soul because philosophy shows that they are fleeting desires that don’t give lasting happiness. With this in mind it is difficult to view the honors I have earned as truly important. Understanding truths about human nature and the universe we live in is a much more gripping achievements, but a résumé isn’t the place for that kind of statement. A college essay might not be.
Sadly, no doubt your only opportunity to understand me as a person comes from this application and in as much as knowing my achievements and experiences give a true testimony to who I am, I have included a résumé. But unfortunately I cannot represent the aspect of character I most respect in others, and would desire most on my résumé. My school’s motto is “Fides, Scientia, Virtus” (Faith, Knowledge, Virtue) and no other qualities of man are as impressive as those three: they are the qualities that make man different from animal.
But there are no meaningful measurements of faith, knowledge or virtue that have a place on a résumé, yet they are the most impressive qualities a man can have. I can say “I have played the saxophone for 7 years” but I cannot say anything to evoke my temperance, moderation or modesty; these types of qualities are immeasurable, and there lies the flaw of résumé’s. They never concentrate on these meaningful statements of character, but always on achievements that have far less weight on a man’s character. Meaningless self-glorification is the main purpose because they only represent qualities of man that are measurable, but the most admirable qualities are immeasurable.


And my dad read over it and said (in summery), "you can't say that. Sometimes you have to tell the man what he want's to hear". And at first I agreed with him, but then I realized that my essay was condemning that view. More over, if I truly believed that my essay was certainly true, do I want to put myself in a school of teachers who were so unlike Mr. Lassetter that they would not even accept a student who was greatly influenced by such a great man? No! I want to attend a college where the teachers read my essay and say "YEAH! This kid has something right going on in his mind". If I get denied based on that essay why would I want to go there anyways. It's like girls: no guy wants to marry a girl that is easy, but you might date her. I'm going to marry my college!