College Admissions Essay: Becoming Successful

College is one way ticket that can lead to your success and your future. Unfortunately, few individuals get to experience this unique opportunity and become successful students. Success is what every individual wants to achieve in their life to get where they want to be in life. To be successful you must take some decisions, you must know what you want to accomplish and create a strategic plan to guide you in life. I interview a couple of students that graduated from college and how they manage to earn their degree.

Winner of twenty two academy awards once stated; "It is kind of fun to do the impossible"- Walt Disney.

Who am I personally, after 50 years of being me, I am still a work in progress. I grew up in a tiny ski resort town, on the Appalachian Mountains, in New Jersey. My father grew up in New Jersey, but my mother is from Havana Cuba. My father never graduated from High School, but my mother did. They did not believe in higher education, especial for girls. They wanted us to get married and start a family, I always knew that was not for me. So I followed my dreams and traveled the world. Meeting exciting, educated people all along the way, my travels showed me all the things that I had been missing out on living in a tiny town. By traveling, I learned how to live independently, be frugal, and enjoy life, that is what made me a strong woman. My weakness is, that I wear my heart on my sleeve, I am temperamental, and no confidant.

Failure to me is more of a meaningful lesson rather than a reason to give up. A temporary detour, maybe, but definitely not a dead end. There's no way to avoid the inevitable so take advantage of it. Welcome failure with open arms. Embrace every loss, every failed attempt, every mistake and learn from it. Most of my lack of success has come from surrendering to defeat or not giving my all, although, in some cases even that wasn't enough. I've failed at relationships, I've failed in school, I've even failed at sports, but in every circumstance I've come out a better person. Perhaps not in that exact moment, but eventually I did. There is one time in particular when failure was a recurring presence and seemed like a challenge I never overcome

Coming from a world where competition is everything, it can be hard to figure what I want with my life. Students are told that education is everything, that we need to go to college to be successful. I have been told by my family that I need to aspire for greatness. My father and mother immigrated to the United States before I was born; looking for a better life. My parents struggled with understanding a new language, while also attempting to find work. In order to help my parents I must attend college and get a stable job.

According to a Thomas Nelson Web site, only 15.7 percent of students were able to complete their degree in 2010. This statistic is shocking because not many students are graduating. I am attending Thomas Nelson now in a two-year program. In addition, I hope I will be part of the 15.7 percent who graduates and earns my degree in two years. Although college is difficult, I will be successful by seeking advice from experts and by developing effective strategies for success.

It seems as if there are not enough hours in a day for me anymore. Months feel like weeks and weeks feel like days. The more I wish time would slow down, the faster it seems to pass by. I have an abundant amount of goals to achieve per day. The list becomes greater as I become older. Since I have always known that I have a passion for helping others, I decided that working in the medical field would fulfill the hunger I have to help others. I know that as a senior in high school I do not have to be certain nor set my mind on only perusing one career. I have to keep an open mind and explore that interest me. Although I do not have to know, I have always wanted to become an orthodontist. Knowing this at an early age has

Growing up, I learned to equate being successful with money and power. I grew up watching my favorite athletes and celebrities boasting about their money on television and thought to myself, how cool would it be to be that successful in life. Now that I am older, I realize there is more to life than money, cars, and all different types of materialistic things. Merriam-Webster describes success as the “degree or measure of succeeding”. Success is a very personal thing in this world. What drives one person to be successful may be completely different to another and that is what gives the word success so much dimension to it.

College has always been a goal for me, I never had the idea of not going to college. Being a child of immigrants, has made me strive for things many wouldn’t think to strive for. The next milestone in my life I wish to accomplish is being accepted to college and also graduating college, when I accomplish my goal I will be the second child in my family to attend college. I also plan to attend a college and join a soccer team and fulfill my dreams to be the first in my entire family to play soccer in a college league.

For years I have been a runner. I ran my first half marathon when I was twelve years old and a full marathon when I was fifteen. There was cross country in high school and three more halfs, and another marathon this fall. This kind of running is meant only for a certain type of person which I believe I am: dedicated, hard-working, determined, and self-motivated. It is meant for a person who knows how to deal with pain and power through to success.

Even though the entire universe thinks that you need to have the money to be successful, well that is so untrue because you do not need to have the money I think you would need knowledge. My definition of success would be knowledge and fame. First, I believe that success is defined when a person has knowledge in some shape or form. Second, Iaasic Newton is a fantastic example of knowledge and fame because he is just so famous at this time. Mary Currie is another great example of knowledge and fame she is also famous in this time. Therefore, to be successful I think we need to be familiar instead of having all the fame and fortune because without knowledge we would not know how to do the things that we want to do in the future.

The word successful can have different meaning to others, success can be measured on monetary worth, items you acquired over the years, people you've met, people you've procreated with starting a family, those very same people are the ones you know and love. Success isn't for all, some will fail trying ever so hard reaching for that pedestal of completion in life, it's the drive of life to compete therefore there is underlying drive to succeed. Although a roof over my head, food on the plate could be considered successful for some, I want to go above and beyond the bar. In order for that i'd want to wake up to my lifelong best friend and wife on a christmas morning wake up the kids to their wants and dreams, watching as the

Everyone has a different opinion on the term success. According to the Webster Dictionary, the word success as a noun defined as achieving wealth, respect, or fame. Success can also be measured in many other ways. Many people throughout today's society strive for their own forms of success. Success has many interpretations; while some people's understanding of the term is similar, everyone's definition is a little bit different. To me, success is when someone or something or a goal, big or small, is accomplished or achieved. For example, I find success in the area of baseball. The word connotes accomplishment or happiness. Success can also have a multitude of antonyms and synonyms such as “defeat”, “failure”, or “victory” and “happiness”. While many people’s thoughts are similar towards the word success, there are many people whose thoughts are different.

Every day, I watched my mother and father work laboriously from the back corner of the upholstery shop, where my siblings and I would be playing with stray kittens and turning old cardboard boxes into imaginary time machines. While I watched my parents struggle to gather the energy needed to continue working, I would dream of a life where we were not constrained by our low socioeconomic status. Nevertheless, I understood that despite how meek our living situation was, my family had come a long way.

Failure is always an option and sometimes our situation results in that. However, failure is not a promise for complete defeat. The path to success is not always a freshly paved concrete walkway with a handlebar to assist those struggling to get to the end. Some may lose sight of it and wonder off too long to be able to come back and some may stay close to it with a few distractions along the way. It is different for everyone, and my personal path to success had many bumps and detours involved it seems like. Middle and high school were rough, like it is for most people. Many are bullied and find themselves failing classes or becoming distant to their friends ad family, but I had different battle to win.