College Admissions Essay: A Career As A College Student

Something that make me smile, gets me excited, makes me do something is softball. I have played ball all since the day I could walk. I started off playing baseball since I was 2 years old. Then at age 8 I went on to play softball for a select softball team in Pearland. Playing softball has always made me smile! I love the intensity, excitement, and the teamwork that is used to play ball. We all look out for each other and try to pick each other up even when we are not all in the spirit. Some activities that involve science, technology, engineering, and math that I find to be fun is robotics and underwater robotics. Robotics has always been a big part in my life because my dad is a robotics teacher for this school and I always loved playing

What do you want to be when you grow up? Is one of the many questions that are asked by teachers and adults. Through the research and development of this paper, I feel that I am finally prepared to answer that question. College has always been in my plans but which college? Well, I have it narrowed down to three excellent and well -known colleges. Ohio University of Athens, The Ohio State University of Columbus and Miami University are the colleges that I feel would foremost prepare me to become an athletic trainer.

Over the last several years in addition to being a full time student I have also enjoyed various other activities including working, sports, and giving back to my community. All of these activities motivate me to succeed. In addition, they each help to make me a responsible individual and a good citizen.

Passion is necessary to excel. Once someone loses desire or motivation for something it becomes quite difficult to continue doing well in that field. I went through a crisis of lost motivation in my first two years of high school.

It’s a weird feeling being compared to your seven-year-old sister. It’s an even weirder feeling when you’re being compared because she can run five times as long as you can.

I have a very good idea as to what career I would want after college. The plan for me would be for me to go get a MA in history after FDU and then go into education. I think the goal for me would be to get a Ph.D. in history, but that would be further down the line. But if I was not on this path my two other career options would be public relations and counseling.

Education is something that is often taken for granted. The pursuit of learning is not always met with energy and excitement and I have understood the challenges that school can bring. The challenging parts of school, however, are necessary to personal growth. Throughout my years of schooling through middle school and through high school I noticed how I would sometimes have to push myself harder than other people to be on the same level as others, and would often become frustrated in my efforts. As I have graduated and aspire to become a doctor, I have realized how important frustration and struggle is to education.

A college education will help me fulfill my dreams of using my knowledge for a greater purpose in the world. There are many problems in the world that I would like to at least shed light if not help resolve. For example, mental health within people of color, isn’t as vital as it should be. As a person who has suffered from depression as well as having family members that suffer from mental illnesses, I have personally seen how something so critical can be swept under the rug and that someone dealing with it not have the support they need. I am currently majoring in Psychology and my goal after medical school is to psychiatrist and create a non-profit organization, devoted to creating safe spaces regarding people of color and their mental health. My college education will help me learn the patterns of humans and their thought process consciously and subconsciously to ensure that the setting of my future organization is aiding those who

I’ve always been that kind of guy who was good with numbers. Throughout my school years, I never had the desire to put in extra effort when it came to English classes or written works. My focus really seemed to rotate around a desire to be a hundred and ten percent into computers and technologies. I assumed that I would always have access to word processors or the Internet if I ever needed spell checking or literacy advice, or at least that’s how I summarized it. So, that philosophy only worked for so long, in a nutshell, less than two years into my first career job!

“Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I’m doing.” - Phil Jackson

I started working at as young of an age as I could. Everything costs money, so I had to get a job if I wanted anything. I know better than most people how much hard work can pay off. I have worked as hard as I can at anything I do for that reason.

I grew up being that student that always got good grades, always did what she was supposed to, did better than all of her other friends in school, and was highly motivated to achieve. I wasn’t passionate about it though. Nothing in high school caught my eye and grabbed my attention, or made me really want to go above and beyond to learn. However, in my senior year of high school, I took an AP Psychology class. I took it because it was one of the most popular classes in the entire school because the teacher was awesome. Taking this class made me realize what I was passionate about in life. But I had always heard from people that it was really hard to get a career in psychology, and that everyone majors in it. So I thought I would major in accounting,

Nearly six years ago I had to make decisions regarding my future. This included decisions based on my education. It was not an easy period of my life. At the time, I had to leave my native country, the life I was used to, and, most painfully, my family. I came to the United States with my father and his wife. They were the only family members and people I knew in this country. Many things drove me to make such a life altering decision, one of them being the idea of countless opportunities for me to study whatever I dreamt about in a free country, instead of being assigned a career, which is what is done in Cuba. Even though I entered a magnificent high school in Cuba, the only one of the kind in the province, I was not happy with the future

When I reached the ending years of high school I hadn’t yet known completely what I wanted to make a career out of nor had I chosen what I wanted to study in college or even what college I wanted to attend. When I finally figured out my future it was then that I had realized what bad shape my resume was in. I wasn’t the type to join any clubs because none interested me (excluding the culinary arts club) and I didn’t have any amazing academic accomplishments because school didn’t interest me. However that doesn’t mean I had nothing, I had challenges I had endured, responsibilities which built my character, and a growing ambition in the world of business.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.” To sum up my college experience in just one phrase, this would be the one. In grade school, outstanding reports are easy to come by. To get a good grade, do your homework, study, pass the tests. Simple. Growing up I always paid close attention to my work to make sure that everything was one hundred and one percent. As my highschool days came to an end, I had to make a choice about college. My mind was filled with ideas and possibilities and I settled on the one I thought would be convienient, easy, and fun. I quickly realized that what seemed to be the uncomparable choice, turned out to be my worst. I slowly began to draw away from my studied due to lack of interest and other personal relations throughout