Sami Ahmad ’16 of Latham recently earned second place in the College of St. Rose’s first annual high school essay writing contest. The theme for the contest was “If you could share a meal with a fictional character, author, or filmmaker, who would this be? How has he or she affected your life? What would you eat? What would you discuss?” Essays needed to be 3-5 pages and were judged on originality, depth, clarity and correctness.
Sami chose Tyler Durden from the book and movie Fight Club as his subject. His essay “My Lunch with Tyler Durden” earned second place out of nearly ninety-five entries.
Congratulations to Sami and Dr. Foster, who accompanied Sami and his parents at the awards ceremony on March 15.
Picture credit: Eurie Dahn, a faculty member at Saint Rose
and one of the contest judges