College Admissions Essay: The Right Path In Life

My Life, I don't know what to do with it… it’s just a mess of this, and that, and the other. All of my life, Horrible, like I should just be tossed aside. I don’t have good grades, I’m not good at any sports. I’m not good at Anything…

Former baseball player Tommy Lasorda once said, “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” The journey of our life is full of winding paths and concrete obstacles whose sole goal is to slow us down, and to attempt to block us from reaching our ultimate goal in life, whatever that may be. These barriers are there for several different reasons, whether it be mental or physical. Sometimes these obstacles are motivated by fear, other times they exist simply because we have to make a decision, and that decision can be life changing. But through our determination, and through our perseverance, we can achieve what these barriers told us was impossible, and can pursue the path in our life that leads us to our ultimate self. Throughout my life, I have had thousands of barriers stand in my path. And the only way I was able to defeat them was through conquering my fears, and breaking my limits in order to achieve excellence.

I have always been told that I got blessed with my genes. Everything I do athletically just comes natural to me. I have had the opportunity to play multiple sports whom of which I have had success in. In all of the sports I’ve participated in I have loved soccer the most and track is just the most natural sport for me. I’ve played soccer for over half of my young life. Soccer just makes me happy when I play. I have also been blessed by being average at soccer too. I didn’t do well my 9th grade season so coming into being a Sophomore I wanted to change that. I worked hard in the off-season and I became a varsity Captain and I finished the season 3rd in the area for assist and was a 2nd team All-District player. I was proud of myself but i knew I didn’t give it everything I had.

Over the course of my high school cross country career, I have made it to state twice and onto varsity my sophomore, junior, and senior year. But those successes did not happen overnight. Sore muscles, blistered feet, and gruesome practices were just a few of the obstacles that challenged me. Furthermore, our team was known

I didn't see myself running around in circles, it just didn't excite me. One day after school my friend told me to come with her to track practice. I went with her because she was the person that I walked home from school every day. I saw her pick up this ball that was in a metallic color and throw it up the stairs. I also saw three other young women and two young men do the same. The track and field told me that I couldn't just sit and watch the practice, I had to participate. I picked up the foreign sphere shaped object and threw it up the stairs. I did very well for someone who has never thrown an eight-pound ball. The coach was fairly impressed with what I threw and told me to come back the next day so I can practice with the team

Happiness is something everyone strives for and if you are not, then I guess you already found it. I believe when I get a job and a family that happiness is the key to enjoying life. If I am not happy with a job or I dread going to work every day, then I will look for a new one. The point is that having the college and job of my choice already set up for me is about the best thing anyone can ask for. I picked this miracle worker because it provides me with the most happiness out of all the things I could ask for.

Sports never interested me much but my dad wanted me to at least try baseball when I was about ten or eleven. I detested the idea but I agreed to attending one practice to see if I liked it. Surprise, I didn’t. I loved it! Nothing gave me as big a rush as stealing home or hitting that rubberand cork ball clear across the baseball field. I was fast, faster than anyone on the planet, I used to think. I was unstoppable. Baseball was all I ever wanted to do with my life, I even wanted to go to college for free with a baseball scholarship and study marine biology; grand plans for a ten year old. But even that changed one fateful

Some choices I made in the past cost me to stumble. The choices I made in my past experiences taught me a lot. But I wouldn’t change any of the choices I made. Those choices allowed me to become a better person for today and tomorrow. A lot of my actions taught me you can never be a leader if you continue to follow. So I am sharing a few moments in my life were choices affect me and my loved ones.

I have always been fascinated with all the events that occur in the Summer Olympics from diving to soccer. The Olympics were a way for me to get out into the world. After watching the sports on t.v. I wanted to also play them. From the ages of five to ten-years old, I participated in multiple activities including soccer, dance, tumbling, basketball, volleyball, softball, cheerleading, and track and field. At the age of ten, I decided that soccer was my favorite sport out of all the ones I had tried, so I tried out for a select soccer team and made it. I was determined to get somewhere with soccer and not just waste all the money and time that my parents were spending on me. Once high school came around I had no time for anything other than soccer, soccer, and more soccer. I played select soccer during the Fall and school soccer during the Spring. As I was approaching my Senior year of high school, I wasn’t sure if anyone was going to want me to play for them in college. I knew I had to try my best for my parents so on June 18, 2015 I toured Southwestern Illinois College and was asked if I wanted to play soccer for them and go to school for free. December 1, 2015 I signed to play soccer for one year with

As a freshman entering my first year of high school, I was completely sure I would never try another sport, ever. My future coach, however, somehow convinced me to attend a throwing practice, and despite the physical difficulties, I was hooked. Four years later, I am now a senior team member and a wholly different person than I was when I started.

It was an early summer day just after my eighth grade year when I made a decision that would significantly impact my high school career. I was working alongside my mother and father on the registration for my freshman year of highschool when I came across blank that asked if I would like to play a sport. For the past three years I had been playing volleyball, and though a successful and talented players, as I imagined my future self, I could not see myself on the court. I have a rather annoying habit of falling in and out of hobbies and interest, I like to consider myself a jack of all trades. Knowing I wanted to play a sport I asked my father if he had any recommendations. He told me that, “in his years as a businessman he had always regretted

My mind was not set to go to college. I am the first in my family to go to college. In high school, my grades were not the best. The school I went to only put all their focus on students with 3.0 GPA average and up. They barely worked with people under that and my GPA average was 2.5. But my family made me believe I can do whatever I put my mind to. They helped me through my childhood struggles and are now helping me with my adulthood struggles by cause of wanting to watch me excel. I choose Norfolk State due to hearing countless of great commentaries about the school and it is convenient to visit home anytime.

Perhaps volleyball was not my designated path; however, it was only through defeat that I found my true passion for running. There were variables, friends, and their actions, in this situation that I was unable to control; fortunately, through the wise words of my mother, I was able to learn the importance of taking control of my actions and response to what happens around me. Instead of lying around idle wallowing in self-pity because my previous dream, for many years, had been bashed to pieces in a matter of months, I chose to try something new.

Understand that life is not a straight line. Life is not a set timeline of milestones. It is okay if you don’t finish school, get married, find a job that supports you, have a family, make money, and live comfortably all by this age, or that age. It’s okay if you do, as long as you understand that if you’re not married by 25, or a Vice President by 30 — or even happy, for that matter — the world isn’t going to condemn you. You are allowed to backtrack. You are allowed to figure out what inspires you. You are allowed time, and I think we often forget that. We choose a program right out of high school because the proper thing to do is to go straight to University. We choose a job right out of University, even if we didn’t love our program, because we just invested time into it. We go to that job every morning because we feel the need to support ourselves abundantly. We take the next step, and the next step, and the next step, thinking that we are fulfilling some checklist for life, and one day we wake up depressed. We wake up stressed out. We feel pressured and don’t know why. That is how you ruin your life.

On April 4, 2017 I started my first Track and Field season at Mosinee Middle School and learned a very valuable lesson, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves we have to start from the beginning. Probably sometime in February I was in 7th grade Social Studies and I heard on the announcements that there were Track and Field sign ups coming up. Mr. Rheinshmidt, our vice principal, stated on the loudspeakers, “ There will be Track Sign ups in the creske gym lobby this Thursday.” I thought to myself… what would I be good at in Track?… shotput?... Discus? I was brought back from deep thought as my Social Studies teacher started talking after the announcements were done. As soon as I heard this, I knew that I would be in Track that spring.