College Admissions Essay: Alive As Can Be

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are. While your reputation is merely what others think you are.” -John Wooden.

My Life, I don't know what to do with it… it’s just a mess of this, and that, and the other. All of my life, Horrible, like I should just be tossed aside. I don’t have good grades, I’m not good at any sports. I’m not good at Anything…

Hi iam Edgardo Flores i was born in casa grande, az not that far away from our state capital,Phoenix, Az.theres nothing better to do in a hot summer than going out with the friends to a lake and have a blast riding jet skis boats and my favorite, swimming!My activites of the day are shooting,riding horses,and my favorite one is quad riding.Thats right! ive been doing these fun exciting hobbies since i was 9 years old.pretty young huh?

I couldn’t wait to get to the powdery snow on the mountains. I love the feel of the freezing snow and the sound of the roaring wind going by me. But I had to drive to Colorado first on Friday. But when I got there I knew that I would have a good time.

Waking up that morning May 21 2015 with a big smile on my face saying today I made it! Senior year was kind of a struggle for me trying to make top 10% of my class, work 2 jobs and attend extracurricular activities and groups such as ROTC French club ,Spanish etc. and manage a social life .It was a lot on my shoulders being that I goofed off my other years. Each day that year I would wake up and motivate myself to keep pushing and pushing to I reach my goal .There was nothing stopping me I mean nothing at all people would talk saying things like “oh he’s not going to pass you”. Friends would doubt me but that just pushed me to grind even harder .yeah I’m not gone lie there was many days I wanted to fall back into my old ways and skip

The future. A place filled with unknowns and unexpected twists and turns. As I near the end of my high school career, the idea of college and all that follows it is becoming a reality in my mind. I do not know what God has in store for me, but I do know that He has a plan. As a freshman, I thought that I would have everything figured out by senior year; however, now that it is senior year, the future looks more mysterious than ever. While this is the case, I have still postulated some of my future goals and ambitions.

I have loved sports my whole life, even at a very young age. I would watch it with my dad, and he would take me to sports games. I loved to play basketball in the backyard when I was little. I have always loved cheering for my favorite sports team. I love watching the Minnesota Vikings and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Two years ago my dad surprised me with Vikings tickets. I was so happy to get to go to a game. Sports has always been a big part of my life. Two years ago, I got a new view of sports when I started umpiring.

I’m from the SIZZLE of a juicy, brown slab of beef cooked medium rare. From the taste of crisp hot wings with various fiery flavors. I’m from hearing the SQUIRT of Sriracha and putting gallons on everything, any chance that I can get. I am from the CRUNCH of a delicious and greeny bowl when you take a bite of it. I’m from having the white, fluffy grains with pretty much everything I eat. Half of my diet could be rice.

I grew up in a small city named Sachse in north-east Texas. I lived in what some people might call “the boonies”. The city was so small, you’d pass through it in one stop light! There was so much land, with nothing but big houses and farms in the back. I unfortunately, did not have a farm, so my sister Taylor and I created what we called the shire. Before we put in our work, there was nothing but tall, long branched, aged trees with a small pond running alongside. We discovered this and immediately went to work. We would climb each tree and put up different kinds of swings and zip lines going from tree to tree. The very last swing we put up was a long rope tied to a branch that hung about 10 feet over the pond. We had so much fun, and eventually a lot of the kids discovered it and were taking it in to use and to this day, everything is still where we left it

I love almost anything that has milk in it. Cream cheese, iced coffee, milkshakes, and cheese . But unfortunately the universe is against me and has decided to make milk irritate my asthma. So whenever I eat something with a reasonable amount of milk product in it, one of two things occurs. Situation one- I am completely fine and can go about my day knowing I have won this round against a weird cow byproduct. Situation two- The strange cow liquid/solid choses to take control of my throat and lungs, causing me unable to breathe normally for a while, and usually ruining a small part of my day. In fact before writing this, I ate a rather small amount of chocolate ice cream that decided to give me a cough and a itchy throat as revenge. Regardless, I have survived to tell the tale and because of my choice, a small part of my life has been improved.

“When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.” These are the words of Eric Thomas, my inspiration, and that of many others. The starting of high school directly coincides with a change in my life; nonetheless, of which both come to be what I call my greatest milestone. From this milestone, I have led a better, more impressive path than I would have if I these words and the many more that continue to inspire me had fallen on the deaf ears of my past self. One of the most important parts of this milestone is the why I started seeking an adjustment; from this why I realized what was holding me hostage to the dreams I endlessly longed for and why they would to me always remain fantasies of a what if lifestyle. There have been many instances in which this refining of my life has benefited me; however, none compare to how far hitting this milestone has assisted me in my school life.

I’m a sixteen year old female who has been raised my whole life around the fact that my mind must be perfect. If I wasn’t meeting up to the standards of my parents, then I needed to change everything about myself to meet them. My anxiety eats at me everyday. It feels like I have a colossal boulder sitting on my chest a lot of the time. The other times, I lose all of my care for anything in that moment. One day, I attempted to explain the situation to my mother and asked her to take me to a doctor. I had been waiting until my parents could afford health insurance for me to go, but all she heard was that there was something was not up to her standards inside of my head, like I was defective. After the odd conditions of my childhood, I didn’t know how to think for myself. I didn’t know how to make rational decisions for myself. I’m still excessively lost. I look all over the place for help. I searched for that help so much anywhere that I could think of. I looked at school,

“Where are you from?” has always been a difficult question for me to answer when participating in ice breaker activities at schools or camps, and my responses can sometimes be confusing and unclear. Over the years it has changed from “I am from” to “I live in” to “Um I’m not really from somewhere.” People carry their hometown as a part of their identity and believe it makes them who they are. My life has been enriched by my family’s decision to move around to follow my mom’s career. It has taught me many lessons and given me a greater appreciation for what matters most in my life.

I was born in Chicago, but raised in Guadalajara, Mexico. I live with my two older siblings and my mother. We moved numerous times while living in Mexico and Chicago, mostly because we could not afford a place to live. Although it was hard to constantly move, we always managed to overcome these situations. My family and I came back to Chicago almost ten years ago. The

I am from New York staring at the glistening lights. I moved to the land of bagels. I'm from the houses that are next to each other. The houses where you can always find someone outside. I'm from the read and green apple tree, the red bushes that felt like you would get a shot from if you fell in. I am from the six hour boat rides catching days worth of dinner