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College Admissions Essay: My Goals In My Life

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For someone who doesn’t like thinking about the future and rather just roll with the punches, I suppose, I found things that I hold important now that I want to carry to find important for the rest of my life. So less like goals and more like values it still took me quite a while to find things that I held important or things I wanted from the future. Actually, I had asked a couple of my old friends to see what their goals were my age, and to see if they had accomplished any of those goals. Through finding out other people’s goals it was much easier to identify my goals, like pursing further education or what I wanted to do with that education. Being a person where my education has more effort put into it than my personal hobbies I found it …show more content…

I waited in my seat as they called students from the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, they were almost to my name. I could feel my face getting red and anxiety rattling my bones. I was graduating from Duke University; I was done with my academic education. Ready to begin a job, start my career, and lead a life with all the knowledge I had gained throughout my many years of school. Anaïs Julien—Viñuela. This was it, I had to finally leave school. In my head, I just kept repeating ‘Don’t trip. Don’t trip. Don’t trip.’ Your lasting impression on people shouldn’t be that you’re a klutz, people working in your field, people making the future; your future. One of the deans hands me the diploma, the next few shake my hand and finally the principal. As I walk off stage I thank god I didn’t fall or cry out of nervousness, making my way down the stairs, I greet my family hugs and kisses and finally sit down back to my seat to watch the rest of the students behind me receive their diplomas. I already applied to internships and possible jobs if there were any, now that this part of my life was done and over I could worry with the trouble ships of getting a job, and the pressure of starting a family. I know I’ll find my …show more content…

For the education one I am dual enrolled and working on getting my Cambridge diploma this year. After high school, I want to attend Duke University and work on getting a major in behavioural science/zoology. Around Palm Bay there may not seem like a lot to do, but making a change is easy from our own home town, marches go on, there numerous volunteer opportunities and countless kitchens to work out of. On being my own person and being kind and honest I do must work on. I am my own person and I never want to be anyone other than myself, but every person has their moments of lesser self-esteem. As well as that, I have an issue with being judgemental or unheedingly hateful. Which, as any person should be able to, I should be able to dislike people, but sometimes it’s with no rhyme or reason. I wish to be kinder. When I grow up I want to be alone basically, with my cats, with my empty house and without a partner or kids. Lastly, I want to have fun, I want to have a life where I can say I’ve done things that other people haven’t done because I want to be able to focus on enjoying myself and being

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