By 2007 I was in college, writing answers instead of essays. Two of them are still in my notebook.
The first was on a writer's view of education: creative learning versus knowledge-based learning. Three years after my guide-book essays, I wrote this:

"creativity is not something which can be byhearted but it has to be our own ideas (individual)."
I'm not sure I'd learned that lesson yet. The example I used still makes me smile: in a museum, children "had transformed simple paper lunch bags into a waterfall with flying fish."
And I ended it in my usual way, with both sides and a big philosophy:
"Finally it is knowledge which sharpens the mind & expand point of views, which prepares an individual to face life in more global way, to accept challenge, competition."
The second was on a poem in our textbook about women and discrimination. I can't remember which poem it was:

"We can find the respect & the Goddess form of woman in Temples, but we never find a woman who is free to Express her ideas."
"they must remember that light cannot be hidden in darkness, & it can't be crushed with the weight of custom & tradition."
I still believe that one.
More from the same notebooks:
Essays I Mostly Learned by Heart
The Only Original Essay in the Class
A Lecture on Television, and an Invitation One Day Before the Wedding