College Admissions Essay: How Bland My Life

I was not really into reading at the time, but I remember that my teacher made us read for at least fifteen minutes at the beginning of every class. If we did not have a book there were many books from her library to choose from. I believe this was one of the first books that I read in her class, and think I chose this book in particular because it stood out. I mean the title itself already piqued my interest. I honestly did not think that I was going to enjoy it as much as I did, It was such a bizarre read with all the strange events and abnormal characters. And in a weird way, the strangeness of the story was what I really liked. I do not think I would have liked it as much if it was not for that. It was one of the first chapter books that I did not have to force myself to finish. This was also one of the first books I read that really got me into loving to read. I just loved getting lost in another world and I wanted to keep reading books that did that for me.

The quote “Life is Tough, My Darling, But So Are You” really relates to me for many different reasons. Sometimes I’m scared to try new things because I’m very scared of failure. I typically on try new things once because if I don’t succeed I don’t want to continue with the challenge. give up on myself when I encounter something difficult only because I never want to fail at anything. I sometimes only try things once and if I don’t succeed I won’t try it again.

There have been labels placed upon me throughout my life. Some have stayed with me while others have dropped off. Without these labels ruling how people see me I feel like I would be more free to do things than I am now.

I come from a big extended family compared to your typical family. I have 14 aunts and uncles. In my immediate family, I am the middle child. I have an older sister who is is 21 and is a junior in college. My brother is 15 and a freshman in high school at Global Leadership Academy. I am currently a junior at the same high school.

I’m the youngest of 4 children. I like being the youngest because I never get bored. I have two older brothers and one older sister. My parents are divorced. I live with my dad in Urbana. My dad’s girlfriend lives with us. She has a daughter that is fourteen. I have two dogs. I love my dogs and wouldn’t

I am the oldest child in my family. My sister Kylie was born after me. When she was born, I didn’t like it that much. I liked having a new member in the family, but more work was put on me. It was my first sign of getting older. Along with having more work, I was blamed on for everything. If she made a mess with my toys, it was my mess. Now that she is older she no longer makes messes for me to clean up.

Family? I have a pretty small family. I am the oldest of my siblings, my younger brother and I are two years apart. There is an eleven years gap between me and my younger sister.

The first time I read it, I half skimmed, half exhaustedly stumbled through the bulk of it at some ungodly hour in the early morning while clicking around hyperlinks on an archived Angelfire site, trying to race to the end of it before unconsciousness claimed me. Although I found it to be very Palahniuk-esc at points, I enjoyed it for the most part, but didn’t get much more out of it than that.

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,

The quote “Life is Tough, My Darling, But So Are You” hits home with me for several reasons. For starters, I’m often scared to try new and exciting challenges due to my lack of confidence in succeeding. If I fail at a challenge or I’m not successful, I don’t want to continue with the challenge or opportunity. I absolutely don’t like to fail. I can relate to this quote because it expresses that life is going to be challenging and difficult at times.

College is a great opportunity that I am blessed to be going through today. I see it as an opportunity to grow as a person and set myself up for the future I want. The success I have in the future will be greatly affected by how I do in college.

Personally, I really do recommend reading this book. The impact the novel can make on a person and how it easily the novel shies away from the stereotypical “ideal classical novel” is incredible. It is definitely required reading in my

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I read the book while I traveled from here to D.C, in about hour and a half I had finished it. And I needed to talk to someone about it. It was so interesting and enriching that I was asphyxiated at the thought that it would be one more hour because I could tell my dad everything I had just

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