College Admissions Essay: The Old Man

Everyone has to make choices in their life. Some are everyday choices, like what to eat or drink. Others are more critical, like choosing a job. Important decisions take time to comprehend. Like with me, the decision to go to college was the most critical choice in my life and for my future, and I will never regret it. Going to college is important because it helps me find a job, it expands my knowledge, and it is a wonderful experience.

Since I started community college I’ve heard several dozen cases of people changing their major, changing their transfer college, or just changing their mind. I’m not likely to do any of that, I choose to use my time in high school deciding what I wanted to do and so far I am sticking to it without a doubt in my mind. I chose to go to community college, earn my Associate's in Business Administration, and transfer to James Madison University in the fall of 2018, graduate in 2020 with my Bachelor’s. I intend to get my Master’s either right after my Bachelor’s or within a few years of my career. I hope to have a job leaving JMU, my first accounting job of my career. I decided to major in accounting for a plethora of reasons, but not what most people expect.

My life hasn’t always been the easiest. In fact, I have gone through a lot for a typically high school student. Most of the things I went through, a lot of people haven’t. Yet, nobody is perfect right? In those four years, you may learn scholarly wise, but you also learn to grow up real quick. These four years in high school really made me think about the person I used to be, who I am today and who I want to be in the future. Your high school years really are the most important years of your life.

My grandfather was my biggest inspiration as a child. He was a successful criminal justice lawyer and unlike many of his colleagues he was never swayed by money or fame. I both feared him and admired him for all that he was. I vowed that when I “grew up” I would be just like him. So when it came time for me to start college applications and choose my intended program of study, you would think it was only natural for me to make the decision to study criminal justice and law. However, it was extremely hard for me to come to this decision. All my life I had spent my time feeling obligated to go into the medical field. It wasn’t until I truly connected with who I was and accepted myself for who I was, that I was able to make the decision to take

“Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain loving one another.”

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

Change is inevitable. Everyday we face a plethora of choices and the decisions we make define us a person and who we want to become. Every year we grow older and hopefully become a wiser and better person. My grandfather was a firm believer in self-improvement and always told me to make goals for myself and to never stop improving yourself. My Grandfather tried his best to live this out in his own life, even in his old age, he always wanted to try new things and better himself.

I am from a place called home where i have a loving family who can be very wild at times

This is not simply an autobiography. This is a narrative centralized around my yesterdays and the effects the choices of my past have had on my todays and tomorrows. This is a literary progression encompassing the results of fifteen years of life, and a celebration of the possible outcomes of many more to come. This is a tale of failure and the immense growth that resulted in recuperation. This is my story, how I learned to carve my own path, to not be simplistic, to withstand conforming to the binding standards of society, and to be the definition of excellence. This is an account of my life, so far as I can recall it.

Twelve years may seem like a plethora of time, but it actually flies by with such quickness that you barely have time to blink. I have been attending school for twelve years now. All twelve of those years, my family has thoroughly drilled me on the importance of succeeding in school. For years, my parents thunderous homilies on education went through one of my ears and out the other. I knew education was important, so why do they keep nagging me about something I have heard for years, were my petulant thoughts. As my body grew and my mind matured, I began to open my eyes and see why. My dad works out of state. He has to drive three hours to a job with less than desirable conditions and absolutely no benefits. In school, my dad liked to joke

Everyone has a chance to do something remarkable in their life. At one point, everyone stops living (which is unfortunate), and what they leave behind becomes their legacy.

Since before I can remember, I’ve been characterized by my sense of independence and will to see things through. At a young age, these particular traits coalesced into quite the stubborn personality- I was the child that found his “replacement” stuffed rabbit (in case the first one went missing) in the top of the closet, and the child who dragged his parents back to the park hours after leaving to reclaim said animals after they were misplaced. As I proceeded into adolescence, this tenacity manifested itself in ways that saw no end to my parent’s frustration. After I had my computer taken away because of a conflict with a sibling, my mother found me clicking away late at night on a ramshackle setup I had pieced together from a barely serviceable

One important thing that I think is essential to becoming a better person is obviously growth. As young as I am, I have been through numerous personality changes and social changes and I am hoping and willingly to experience more changes.

As I open my eyes to the beginning of a new day, all the memories and regrets hit me like a crashing wave. My shattered life, the reminding of my sin, and the unknown plans ahead make me realize of how unbalanced and the lack of control my life has.I've grown weary of lacking control and letting stress take me over. I've grown weary of living my life far from my God and making decisions without him. College is another art of my life I don't want to take for granted, but to look forward to.

An example in my own life reflecting the Aesop’s fable would be a time when I was playing on a high school baseball team. Our coach tried to teach me and others why we needed to play as a team to win a championship instead of playing defensively alone. We practiced drills and team work for several afternoons leading up to the first scrimmage. The first