College Admissions Essay: Making A Difference

If someone asked me where I am going to be in ten years, this would be my answer. I will have a great, high-paying job, and beautiful wife and family, and a nice sports car parked in front of my lovely house. When I look into the future, I see myself being successful and happy. Even though I always pictured myself this way, I never worried too much about how I would get there. I feel the Suffolk University can lay the groundwork for making these dreams into reality.

Growing up I was spoon fed ideas. I was taught a countless number of things were right, while the ugly things were wrong. My childhood is a conservative blur of standing in a corner with my nose on a wall and watching VHS tapes of Green Acres. Every memory I have pre high school is filled with Irish Catholic white people never willing to admit gay people exist. Before high school I never realized how sheltered my life was until I was drowning in this new, beautiful, multicolored world. Looking back, I was unwilling to embrace this change, but I was focused into it and because of this I am greatly pleased I did. The only reason why I am sharing this personal scenario is because my experience in this class has been similar; what I thought was normal and right became challenged and was torn open to new concepts and ideas, leaving me more educated and glad that it happened.

What you see is not always what it is. We learn to perceive what we're looking at, and we get used to how things are supposed to be. I was always fascinated by the illusion pictures that at first glance is strikingly simple to guess what it is, if you give more attention to detail you see another picture in it. What inspired me the most and made me a curious person was how missing one detail can change the whole outlook of the picture – just as missing one aspect from patient’s evaluation can lead to a wrong diagnosis. This taught me the importance of thoroughness in doing anything in my life. My meticulous nature has been an incredible driving force behind who I am

The city of New York is where I reside, mostly when I'm not flying around the world in my elegant, exclusive, exorbitant jet; I'd always mention with a wink. I'm living the dream. Waking up to the warmth of the sun as my alarm, the view of the alluring country from my apartment and Mr. Awares, my butler the man who dresses me... haha okay, I’m not that lazy. Where do I see myself 10 years from where I stand now? A question I could never answer until 10:03pm or was it 10:05pm? Well, who knows, I fell asleep.

“Some succeed because they are destined to, most succeed because they are determined to”. During the winter of eighth grade, I lived by these words of encouragement as I prepared for my upcoming piano competition. My goal was to place in the top three. By dedicating my time and energy, with commitment, determination, and persistence, I not only reached my goal, but also learned a lesson about how to reach my goals that would last me a lifetime.

Steve Jobs once said, “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” Life is about changing yourself over and over again until you're happy, then changing yourself again because you're no longer happy -- and that's okay. Often, once you make a choice in life, people will put you in a box, shutting you out from all light, resulting in a misshapen, brittle, and weak mind and heart. The greatest nourishment for them is change, and once someone takes away the ability for the mind and heart to transform, they take away your life. When I was 14, naïve and insensitive, I learned the value of change. My life did change, slowly morphing me into

She is the answer to my earnest prayers for a wife filled with the qualities I prayed for and one day I hope to marry her in the future. She was really there for me in my hard times.

President Ronald Reagan said, “We can’t help everyone. But everyone can help someone.” I understood the true essence of these words at an early age, while taking care of my grandmother suffering from Parkinson’s disease as the hospitals neither had facilities nor did family members have nursing expertise. My grandmother’s helplessness inspired me to volunteer in the community to provide free medical services for the destitute children and so on.

There have been times in my life where my situation did not go according to plan. Perhaps, if I am honest, the reason for my folly is that I needed decisive planning, in addition to adding prudence in my judgements. There is an old saying that with age comes wisdom, as the years have passed, so has my ability to culture a sincere appreciation for patience, consideration, combined with preparation. Through my trials and tribulations, I have acquired the ability to make better choices and create plans with foresight. Though there can always be a nail in the road, pushing forward regardless of the obstacles ahead, can help develop a sense of perseverance in the face of adversity that we all need at times. I have learned that

Death swiftly swooped in, grabbing my aunt as she lay heavily sedated due to her medicine, which she had to reduce her abdominal pain; colon cancer is usually highly treatable and curable, but unfortunately the cancer had spread to other parts of her body. A year later, Death returned, this time taking my grandfather, three days after his surgery to drain blood around his brain from his stroke. Soon, the beginning of my adolescent years became filled with woes, and due to this I spent years in darkness. Unfortunately, keeping myself in the dark led to sorrowful thoughts. These thoughts manifested themselves in me, although there were times where the sweet, seductive dreams were tempting me to make it a reality; a stalemate war being fought

"Many will travel to hear you speak". I saw this on a fortune cookie from Panda Express during a time when I was unsure on what I wanted to be and what my talents were. I always had a passion for public speaking, but this seemed out of reach — especially since most of my family members only favored medical related professions. However, I know that I have another path to follow.

I have always been the type of person that goes beyond what is expected. I prefer to go beyond the expectations and to be seen as someone who perseveres for what I plan to accomplish. My goal is not be seen as an ostentatious person, but as some one who has been taught to work hard towards my goals. People may refer to me as a quiet person, but I am actually gregarious once you get to know me, it's just that I prefer the company of calm and nice people. This school year I am a Junior, although my plans for the 2016-2017 school year are to graduate early. I know that it's not easy to get the necessary credits to graduate from one day to another. For that reason, last year I talked with my school's registrar about my plans on how I could possibly

My advice to a freshman is that do not waste your time because being as a senior I have seen many freshman students who don’t care about their classes because they think that they have a lots of time to recover it on their junior or senior year but the fact is that if the time never stop it is going on it circle so we never know that what is happening next with us. Never trust on time because as the clock is rounding it doesn’t on the moment that you want it is moving and moving but you have to catch it and spend it for a thing that gives you a benefit. I am a senior when I came to the school I was already senior but I didn’t waste my time with anything that I have to worry about it. I put all my effort and hard work in my classes and know

“ To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often”- Winston Chuchill. This quote reminds me of my whole life. When I was 16 a wonderful family decided to let me in their home to become their third son. They knew how much stress that me being a teenage would cause and they still welcomed me in their house with open arms. Since that day I have been trying to impress them and show them I could be a great son. My first couple days of high school I struggled with my academic, blaming it on athletic. My parents sacrificed so much for us just to play sports. Skipping ahead, I Buckled down and I changed my ways finishing high school with a 3.25. Graduating, I thought I was ready for college but that was a rude awakening. My first semester

When I was 7 years old I learned a valuable lesson. My mother has been a spanish teacher for 17 years, and in her 9th year of teaching she decided to take a trip to Mexico with her class. She brought along me and my grandma and 10 students. At first i was skeptical and scared of going to a country 1000 miles away from my small town of 100 people. Eventually I decided to go (one of the best decisions of my life). We left early one morning in late May and met the students in the parking lot of BHS. We drove to Saint Louis International where we boarded a plane to Atlanta. I loved every second of the flight, spending most of my time gazing at the fields below and wondering how high up we were. Two hours later we touched down