College Admissions Essay: Why I AM Who I Am

I will never have my father’s smile or my mother’s eyes. My skin tone will also never match their pale skin even though I am their daughter. Although my siblings and I are all adopted from China, growing up in this unique family dynamic played an integral role in my development. I have grown to realize my ethnicity and upbringing are not labels used by my peers to define me. My background has helped me push through social barriers to build friendships. It challenged me to impel beyond the world’s “black and white” boundaries to see a society that thrives on diversity. My multicultural background equipped me with experiences that gave me a new perspective on privilege and responsibility, preparing me to overcome obstacles in the global industry

Who am I exactly? I find myself asking myself this question more and more often. This is my second year here at Grossmont College, and I find myself still undecided on my major or what I want to achieve for the rest of my life. I’d like to think that at 19 – despite the young age – that I have experienced and witnessed a lot in my life that has shaped me into the person I am. With the experience I have under my belt, my social concept, social comparisons, reflected appraisals and self esteem has all been affected. The person that I have become today is all dependent on my past and how I perceive the experience. Even though I might still be unsure of exactly who I am or who I will be, the experiences of my past have become the basis of my personality.

Throughout my entire life--or, only as much of it as I can remember--my family struggled financially, as we still do. I had become so accustomed to my family’s penny-pinching tendencies that I would constantly compare prices whenever I went to the grocery store to see if I could find a cheaper price.

Why? This is the question that is before me right now. Why am I attending college? What degree is it that I am pursuing, and why? The expected answers to the question, “Why are you attending college?” is, to make better money, or to provide for myself and my family. With me, the answer to this question is different.

Paragraph 1: Everything that’s happened in my life makes me who I am, but what really makes me, me? I think family, sports, and friends have made me who I am today.

Call me Missy but if you have to know my real name is Michelle. Of course, similar to all the other thousands of essays you’re going to read, they will be about why a student desires or strives for college. Well to be honest, there is no easy way to explain why someone craves to go to college. I am wishing to be different excluding all the other essays you’ve read. Explaining my achievements, stress, and grades I’ve had all show how much I wish to go to college. Please just give attention to my essay.

A question most people are familiar with is, “Who am I?” I have always struggled with placing myself in any identifiable categories. As a Canadian and the second child in my family, I became an outsider in a society filled with singletons as a result of China’s one-child policy. Believing that I would belong when I started school in Canada, I was only disappointed by the shocking disparity in language and culture. And today, though it seems almost ludicrous that the same experiences that I once felt ashamed of have become one of my best assets, the thrill of success from overcoming such challenges have attracted me to the financial sector. ‘Who I am’ is someone who not only someone strives to improve my weaknesses, but I am also someone who takes full advantage of her ability to develop a unique, international perspective of life to grasp opportunities with a growth mindset.

Topic B: Most students have an Identity, an interest, or a Talent that defines them in a essential way.

Who am I? As a student, an answer to this question is becoming imperative as parents, teachers and institutions alike assume that students have a predetermined blueprint for their future. I had difficulty in answering this question, but as I found my passion, my drive to succeed and started to push my limits, some defining characteristics became evidently clear.

Someone that I am is a kind,caring,and loving person who loves to help others. I have not yet attempted to make a positive change in the world but I do have a couple of ideas that i think will work and are very positive towards the world. I was always curious since I was a little girl what the entire world was like and how others were not in the best situations. Now that I am older I do realize that the world world is very harsh and it’s not always going to be the best place to be at certain times, I realized that when put myself in a bad position with not so good people. I’ve always told myself when I was younger that, they deserve that type of punishment when I would see people on the streets. Now I see that it always is not there fault they obviously up somewhere in life and mistakes always happen. One way I would like to help those people on the streets is build about the size of a large dog house and so they could call it home until they get back on there feet.

The reason why I want to be in college is that I long for more job opportunities in future. A college education is my objective. Nowadays, more and more companies want to get highly educated employees. So being in University gives me a golden chance to find good jobs, make more money and improve the quality of life. As far as I’m concerned, I should develop myself in many aspects but not in one aspect.

There are various stages of life. As we get older the lifestyle and habits rapidly changes. Although the standards of my life have changed a lot since I was twelve years old, but still some of my hobbies, looks, lifestyle, interests and learning styles are still the way they were twelve years ago.

We need to stop checking under our bed for monsters, and realize that the monster is inside of us. Everyone is in this battle of trying to be our authentic self but also that struggle of finding ourselves.

Why me? As I grew up I continued to ask myself why? Throughout my life I didn't understand why I was hit with so many hardships. I never got an answer... so I went on to believe my struggles were only preparing me for my future. My perseverance kept me going and still is because I still face difficulties. I believe I formed myself into a leader, despite the challenges I find a way to achieve.

Who am I? That’s hard to say since there is no clear definition of what makes a person. I could be my occupations: a student, dancer, and swimmer. Maybe I’m my emotions like happy, sad, and angry. I could be where I live, or what my goals are and how I plan to reach them. Most likely, I’m a compilation of all of these because people are complex and are not two dimensionally made. Where I am, how I act, and what I do make me who I am and I would not be Veronica without living in this house in Portland, Texas and having aspirations that seem to be more impossible than seizing the moon. I am Veronica, but I can also be whatever I need to be depending on where I live, what I do, and how I change my goals.