College Admissions Essay: What I Am Doing Right Now

I was given one month to pack thirteen years of my life in a suitcase. Moving to the United States from Brazil has been a major landmark in my life. It was a phase defined by its drastic transition between to widely differing cultures. I was faced with the challenge of making different friends, and growing accustomed to a new educational system. This all became increasingly difficult when you take in to consideration my inability to communicate. Overcoming this obstacle was my biggest objective in ironing my complicated transition.

How have your life, work, and educational experiences contributed to your understanding of yourself and others in relation to the society in which we live? (You may wish to reflect on various aspects of your identity such as gender, sexual orientation, economic/class status, life as an aboriginal person, racial or cultural background, disabilities, or abilities).

Waking up that morning May 21 2015 with a big smile on my face saying today I made it! Senior year was kind of a struggle for me trying to make top 10% of my class, work 2 jobs and attend extracurricular activities and groups such as ROTC French club ,Spanish etc. and manage a social life .It was a lot on my shoulders being that I goofed off my other years. Each day that year I would wake up and motivate myself to keep pushing and pushing to I reach my goal .There was nothing stopping me I mean nothing at all people would talk saying things like “oh he’s not going to pass you”. Friends would doubt me but that just pushed me to grind even harder .yeah I’m not gone lie there was many days I wanted to fall back into my old ways and skip

When I graduated in June of 2014 I really wasn't sure what I wanted out of life. I was prepared to go to the local community college undecided. I was dragging my feet when it came to getting ready to start school in the fall, and I knew I wasn't ready. I approached my mom with the idea of flying out to California and get to know my family and grandparents there better. 3 weeks later I was on a plane flying to Sacramento, as all my friends began their freshman year of college. I'll admit it was tough to see all my friends take the next step in life and I was a couple thousand miles away with nothing planned out. I decided to take that weekend and head to Lake Tahoe. It literally was a breath of fresh air for me. I was at (debatably) the most beautiful lake on earth. Things seemed clearer to me after that trip and I was able to remind myself that not everyone takes the same path in life, and we definitely won't all end up in the same place. I took the rest of those few months to be outdoorsy, paddleboard, hike and ride horses. When November came and it was time to come home, I was ready.

It’s a weird feeling being compared to your seven-year-old sister. It’s an even weirder feeling when you’re being compared because she can run five times as long as you can.

My college application would be incomplete without me explaining how I got to where I am today. See there for awhile there was a pretty good chance I wasn’t going to graduate. I have a brain condition called Chiari Malformation, which means that I was born with my brain to low in my head and while I was growing it was slowly squeezing my brain. This caused me to have debilitating migraines that made me lose all control of my body. I couldn’t talk, couldn’t move, every muscle in my body tensed up as tight as they can be, and there was nothing I could do to communicate what was going on with me. For awhile doctors had no idea why it was happening just that we had to get it under control soon because the pain was so bad I would almost have a stroke. I still remember how scared I was every time because I never knew if this would be the end for me.

I was born and raised in Kerala, India, son of an arranged married couple with Indian ancestry. I am the eldest son with one little brother. Because I am the eldest child in the family I have to be little responsible and a good role model for my brother, and my younger cousins. Last four years of my life was like a magic to me. I would say those for the toughest time period I had to face. Some times I wish, “can this all be a dream and go back to my 5th grade year”. I don’t know, fifth grade till my eighth grade was the best years of my life. I could still remember visiting my cousins and family every week, visiting friends, playing cricket, family dinners, and so on. Four years ago, I moved to America. I still remember the exact date-April 18,

Rank, GPA, grades, these numbers and percentages define who I am as a student and what opportunities I will be presented with in the future. There are two 97s, two 98s, seventeen 99s, and thirty-three 100s on my high school transcript; I have dedicated a significant portion of my life to make sure those grades are perfect, lamented the small failures and lionized the success’. Due to a rigorous study and work ethic, I am prepared for each test I take in school moreover, I have learned to adopt this principle in life as well. I earned each and every one of the grades on my transcript by learning to manage my time wisely, never procrastinating, and giving each class, no matter its weight or subject, my undivided attention. Whenever I had free time, in between classes, at lunch, on the car ride home from school, or even at a tennis tournament, I was studying. I never allowed myself to slack off, and as a result my grades were set apart from everyone else's. Finding a balance between working hard and playing hard has always been a battle in discipline among my id, ego, and superego. A lesson that has led to some small and some

Heading off to college is a big ordeal and it’s important that I’m prepared for all the things I’ll have to face without the help of prior preparation and research. I would like to be prepared for all the financial and time restraints that I’ll have to deal with. The stress of studying for all my classes will be enough to deal with, without the stress of finding ways to pay for all the things that are associated with growing up and going off to college. I would like to be successful and I don’t find college to be a necessity to be successful but I do appreciate learning and I’d like to learn all I can, because knowledge is power, plus it’s what my family would expect from me. And if I’d like to keep receiving health insurance,

On a hot summer day, I was born on July 27th 1998 at Ohio State hospital. Since the day I was born I have experienced many things throughout my life. The experiences that I have had throughout my life have shaped me into the person that I am today. Who I am as a person today is successful, kind and thoughtful.

This essay will engage in my future, it will contain three types of content which are, high school, college, and the family that i will have in the future. In highschool i will take all of the advantages that are given to, such as tutor(s), extra courses, and honor classes. I believe that i will have a wonderful and bright future if i work very hard and take ownership in what i will do to be successful. “The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.” Barack Obama.

When you’re a child, everyone asks you what you want to do. When I was young, I had typical little girl answers. I never thought about it, so I gave what everyone else did. When it came down to it, I had no idea what I’d do beyond these fairy tale dreams. Now I do.

Challenges in life are easily the most important aspect of life. Without challenges, we as people would never grow and evolve into something better and new. I know I would not be where I am now without buckling down and embracing those challenges placed before me. I have taken on an immeasurable amount of good experiences, knowledge and challenges through the past year and a half. Within the past year I have moved on my own, gotten a career defining job and chosen a career path that is truly incredible.

As I transition into college, I am setting new goals for my education and my life. My educational goals are to continue working hard in the classroom in order to maintain my prestigious grades. I also strive to get involved on campus and make a positive influence on my peers. As a biology major, I aim to absorb as much information as possible so that I may be an excellent teacher. Once I earn my degree, I plan on becoming an instructor of biological sciences on a college campus.

I was raised as an only child in a low socioeconomic home, with parents who had problems with alcohol abuse and neglect. I was an angry, insecure child who performed poorly in school for many years. The expectations others held for me were pretty low, including my own.