College Admissions Essay: My Passion For Success

Even as a child, I have always had a love for others, a desire to create happiness between all. While a lofty aspiration, I firmly believe that people have the power to make the world friendly and peaceful, and I am committed to assist in creating that world. My earliest memories are certainly not happy ones, I still live with the scars my parents caused, both physical and otherwise. But there is a shining light in that abuse: my eventual movement from my parents to living with my grandparents. While they are stubborn and stuck in their traditions, they never forced me into their ways, always giving me encouragement to shoot for my passions. Even as I told them I was not faithful, and questioned religion, they did not reprimand me, they only

Curiosity and passion.These are two things that matters to me the most. Throughout my years at high school, I have grown stronger in an environment where I am challenged every day. It is in my nature to push myself towards excellence, in both my academic and extracurricular quests. I love innovation and the application of classroom knowledge to real situations.

I hope your life is better than mine at the moment. Hopefully, you and Jeremiah are still together and you’re finally happy for once in your life. I hope you still have family picnics in the park ,and lay in the bed with your husband as you both tell each other about your hopes and dreams, while in your pajamas and fuzzy socks over a glass of chocolate milk and teddy grahams, like you used to do back in your younger days. I know you’re excited about walking across the stage in the spring, and finally graduate from college in the top 3% with honors and your receive your doctorate at age 25. I've always had faith in you, and so has your family. I’m sure we all remember when you changed your major from nursing, to teaching, then back to nursing

Throughout high school, I always envisioned myself majoring in International Business and achieving the highest degree in that field. But, this past year and a half, along with the tense political season made me realize my true passion for politics. After thinking about it restlessly, I decided that it majoring in Political Science would be the most interesting and beneficial for me and my future.

Goals, goals, goals they're what people think about and how they are going to achieve them in the future. My three goal in life are to get in the college of my choice, go skydiving and to get a well paying job. These three goals are important to me because they are what I am likely to achieve within the next ten years. As I grow and blossom into someone big, someone bigger than who I am today I don’t mean just physically but bigger intellectually, and more capable. These goals show me that if I want to achieve them, then I have to work hard to accomplish them.

Michael Jordan once said, “I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Through the years in my life, I have made myself refer back to this saying several times whenever I fail at something. One time, however, is more significant than all of the others.

If you were to ask me what I wanted to do with my life in the sixth grade, I would’ve responded like any other child would. My response would have centered around making my family proud of me, an example being, “More than anything I would like to be a (enter extremely complicated profession here)”, but as any other confused teenager lost amidst the ever changing world we call ours; I have learned that my happiness and existence relies more on what I call success than what society calls theirs. Success to my grandmother would be a college degree and a doctorate. Success to my parents would be any job earning more than 90,000 dollars a year. Success to a poor man would be a dollar in his pocket and a house with heat.

What is the passion in your life? the key that starts the engine to the motor of your heart? Well, I'll tell you what's my passion, simple, my family. Although my family is my passion, and the motor that fuels me to keep on battling, I also have many dreams and goals set. In addition to my family, my goal is to become an engineer in life, and to be a successful one. In fact, I believe everyone should have a set goal in their life, no matter how difficult or tough it might be, we all must show our colors and fight for what we want, at the end we just need to find our purpose.

Who brings you confidence? Someone older? Someone that’s done something special in your life? Someone that you aspire to be? My inspiration is dedicated to my sister, Chey, for being there for me the most and teaching me that life is what you make of it.

Passion No-one is brought into the life with a passion for anything. A passion must develop over time. Much like a butterfly, blossoming from the early stages of its life as a caterpillar to the final, very beautiful, product. Every life being introduced to the world has every ability to grow and morph into anything they desire.

My whole life, people have been telling me to find my passion. Relatives calling me only to ask if I decided which college to go to. Cousins texting if I need help starting my application. Parents and siblings constantly pounding deadlines and expectations into my head. I learned to block them out. Every time the subject came up, I managed to conjure up the strength to mumble an okay where it seemed necessary. Once in awhile, I needed to escape the deadlines, pressure, stress. I went to the only thing that could help calm me. I went to my books, my safe haven.

Ever since I got into studying, I saw my life as going into well known ivy league university and getting myself into professional job with great amount of salary. Since I even until I was thirteen I did not realize how serious our world and our society was; all I did was pathetically enjoying life if I am in the world by myself, watching comedically foolish tv shows, refusing to look around others around me who are piling up their knowledges by adequating and constantly solving problems and reading interminable novels, while I prefer to watch them. However, by the time I turned thirteen, I decided to look at others around me and began to realizing my mistakes late. Ever since I studied tediously, I only thought one could not to study entirely like I did before, or to put myself into painful position of monotonous of hours with my studies. Therefore, I studied day and night; after homework and on weekends, even having to have my rosy pink and purple veins in my eyes popped, I endured those pains and kept on studying. I did not look back until this summer, when I actually started to think seriously about my future. I thought, even though this society is filled with competitions and

Scholarships, for some are not necessary to help them achieve their goal, but, for others can decide what they choose to pursue in the future. Growing up, I was taught that hard work, desire, and kindness are values to live by to help reach goals. All of those beliefs are ones that I solely owe to my grandfather. He was the one who supported my childhood because my mother birthed me when she was young and was incapable of independently providing for me, financially and, for that, I will never fall short of living truly to these values. These morals are all precious, but cannot be exchanged to purchase anything; receiving a scholarship from Hampton Roads Pride will help me to become closer to achieving my goals in life.

There are quite a few things that motivates and inspires anyone to do anything in their everyday life. For me nothing really motivated me to be or do anything with my life. I was always bouncing from one thing to another, always changing. It was all very exciting at first but after a little while I would get bored and always ended up trying something else. But all of that changed three years ago when I learned that soon I was going to be a mother. Learning this bit of information changed everything for me. Suddenly all I thought about was the life I was living and how I could improve in the aspects of my life, including my education, my values and who I was as an overall person.

What am I passionate about? I am passionate about being true to myself and not letting external forces influence who I am, what I like, and my potential. My choices in extra-curricular activities and sports are not typical compared to most students at my high school, especially the girls. I have learned to not allow others’ expectations discourage me from the passions I want to pursue.