College Admissions Essay: A Career As A Scholarship

My life has been an ongoing stuggle, but my hard work, determination, and enthusiasm for my education have enabled me to pursure my dreams. My academic plans are to major in pre-occupational therapy. After graduating and completing the prerequisite, I plan to obtain a license in Occupational Therapy by attending OT School. Success does not come from a pay check. For me, helping and assisting others acheive their goals is the purest form of success. I want to travel and eventually settle down in my hometown. My overall career goal is to give back to the community that shaped me into the person I am. I am a hardworking-dedicated student, who focuses on my work, yet I have always enjoyed being involved in extracirricular activities. As you can see from my application, I enjoy sports and clubs. In the following year, I plan to get deeper involved

Now I'm going to talk about how service took part in my life. Service is the act of helping or doing something for someone. When I was in 6th grade I started working at my church in Wadsworth. I helped mostly in the nursery with the kids. I always had so much fun watching the kids and teaching them lessons. When I heard about National Junior Honor Society I decided to look up how many hours I have worked the past 3 years, and I couldn't believe it! I worked 120 hours! Well you know, time flies when you're having

"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time" - Marian Wright Edelman. To serve others is to minister and help others in various ways; it is not an act to do for show or publicity, but simply to enrich and help the lives of others and your own life. Everyone can serve one another in some form or fashion without even realizing the impact. Over my high school and college career, I have volunteered for a multitude of community service projects, ranging from mission trips, to serving the local HESED house children. Although, out of all of these projects, the one that leaves a lasting impact to me was the mission trip to the Dominican Republic.

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

Throughout high school, I always envisioned myself majoring in International Business and achieving the highest degree in that field. But, this past year and a half, along with the tense political season made me realize my true passion for politics. After thinking about it restlessly, I decided that it majoring in Political Science would be the most interesting and beneficial for me and my future.

A long time ago I moved to Denton, Texas for school, attended Texas Woman's for 4 semesters than dropped out.

Throughout my educational career, I gained the teaching of 32 magnificent teachers, even so, just two ever genuinely inspired my work, and strived to know my being as an equal, as a fellow. I have always attained the status amongst exceptional students, and time was on my side, it seemed, when I met one of the utmost inspirational teachers I have had the tremendous pleasure of learning from, Mrs. Leah Tucker, my art teacher, who taught me not only who artists were, or how to draw or paint, for three stupendous years of my schooling career; suddenly 8th grade came around, I was acquainted with Mr. Bevis, who has the probability of being one of the best English teachers, and inspirations I may ever have. Fortunately, bits of both of their teachings

The scorching oil splashed across my father’s forearm as he worked in a frantic hurry, ignoring the searing heat that ate away his flesh. He absorbed the trauma, swallowed the pain, and continued frying the chicken wings for his upcoming customers. Whenever he came home after toiling twelve hours a day in the cramped, hot kitchen, all I noticed was that permanent scar and the dark bags under his eyes. Noticing how closely I was watching him, my father held my face with his rough hands and reassured me, “I will make sure you will have a better life than mine.”

In my elementary, intermediate and middle school years I have made it a priority to always show scholarship. Throughout my years of school I have maintained a 4.0, or gotten all A’s. In my earlier years of school I was awarded the principal's award several times, which is for academics. Following that I have also attended and placed 2nd in the math tournament and will be participating this year as well. Another very important thing is I have recently been given the opportunity to as an 8th grade student, take 3 freshman classes in place of my 8th grade classes to get or be ahead come my highschool years. Doing my best in school has always been important to me; even though I can be a procrastinator at times, I always get my work

Choosing a career path is one of the most important decisions I will make. All my life I wondered what type of career I will have. Now is the time for me to make a decision that will impact the rest of my life. Therefore I want to be certain that I choose an occupation that fits best for me.

I have always wanted to help relieve my parents from stress and work, provide for them without calling for financial help, and live with minimal troubles. As I grew older, I realized the only way that I could aid my parents: I need to go to school and do well. I worked as hard as I could in all my classes at school, pushing myself as much as I could to advance to the next year with my best. College is the next step, but how could I get through it without financial problems that could grow worse anytime? This question pestered me relentlessly everytime I think about attending college until I decided I need to apply for any scholarship that would help me reach my life goals.

Kids always here the same thing when they first tell their parents what they want to be when they grow up, “you can be anything you want to be if you work hard at it.” While that usually true it’s really hard to be a professional basketball player when you’re under 6’6’’. As we get older and still have that dream of being an all star our parents start to get a little more suggestive about our career choice we start to hear “always have a backup plan.” Hinting that they know we aren't going to make it that far. Then that one day finally arrives when they tell you that one thing every kid hears at least once in your life, “why don’t you be a doctor!” Yes the dreaded doctor kids all over the country fear, the evil man with his cold tools and pointy objects. Most kids immediately throw this idea out the window some of those kids decide this might be a good idea. Being one of those kids I quickly learned it’s a lot more complicated than me as a kid realized. The career I chose was a doctor more specifically a specialist of internal medicine. What internal medicine does is figure out

As a senior, I pride myself in knowing that I will be the first in my family to graduate high school and have the opportunity of pursuing my dreams. As I look into the future, it is easy to see why many would think that my dream career is unobtainable. When I tell others what I want to do, I always get the same reaction of shock. Countless times throughout my life I've been told that I cannot do it; I've been told that there is no way that a kid born with illegal parents who have no real education can ever achieve what I want to do. I dream of becoming a surgeon and helping save the lives of others. I want to prove once and for all that someone like me, even from the circumstances that surround me, can make something great with their lives

I've always had many interests: drawing, writing, cooking and baking, sewing, biology, etc but I couldn't choose from any of them as a career choice because they seemed too simple for me. I needed something challenging but those interests fell short. Luckily, I found something.

It's stereotypical for any student to say that they are always motivated to do better in school no matter what life throws at them, or that they work best under pressure; and it's even easier to say that when one has enough time to just focus on their schoolwork full time, like not having to deal with jobs, relationships, or sickness. When it comes to abilities that I am proud of, one would have to be my sheer determination to see something through to the end. I was pretty content with college life and actually had fun in most of my classes along with being lucky enough to have some excellent math professors. I didn't have any other responsibilities besides passing my classes, and looking back at it now I regret not taking advantage of my extra time to do something more.