Category: Essays

An archive of all of the personal essays we’ve published at Hippocampus Magazine over the years.

The Sky’s the Limit by Alice Lowe

old, tattered baseball in field of grass, lonely

He started with T-ball at five—tiny tykes swinging eagerly, determinedly, sometimes tearfully, in a fierce contest with a stationary ball—and stayed with it through the finely honed and competitively groomed “majors,” the top rung of Little League.

Upload Your Personal Essay Below by Amy Yao

pile full of crumpled college brochures

COMMON APPLICATION FOR UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE ADMISSION Please write an essay on a topic of your choice or on one of the options listed below. This personal essay helps us to become acquainted with you as a person and student, apart from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data. It will also demonstrate your ability…

Our First Reaction by Robin Parks

close up of man's hands giving himself a blood sugar test pricking finger

Sean tries to convince me that I have no idea what I’m getting into, and that as soon as I do, I will leave him. The diabetes that exploded his eyes and killed his kidneys is still ever-present. So I could see his point.