My College Admissions Essay: Shaping My Career Path

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.

Senior year, the best time of our lives and the last step in this chapter of our lives. This is the time when we have to buckle down and finalize our future, but in reality, it is not. Although we may plan what we want for the future, the things we want are not always the things we need. All we can do is work hard to achieve our goals and meet the standards we have set for ourselves in order to achieve as many of these plans as possible.

What do you want to be when you grow up? Is one of the many questions that are asked by teachers and adults. Through the research and development of this paper, I feel that I am finally prepared to answer that question. College has always been in my plans but which college? Well, I have it narrowed down to three excellent and well -known colleges. Ohio University of Athens, The Ohio State University of Columbus and Miami University are the colleges that I feel would foremost prepare me to become an athletic trainer.

Throughout my educational career, I gained the teaching of 32 magnificent teachers, even so, just two ever genuinely inspired my work, and strived to know my being as an equal, as a fellow. I have always attained the status amongst exceptional students, and time was on my side, it seemed, when I met one of the utmost inspirational teachers I have had the tremendous pleasure of learning from, Mrs. Leah Tucker, my art teacher, who taught me not only who artists were, or how to draw or paint, for three stupendous years of my schooling career; suddenly 8th grade came around, I was acquainted with Mr. Bevis, who has the probability of being one of the best English teachers, and inspirations I may ever have. Fortunately, bits of both of their teachings

Although mostly unknown in the United States and around the world, in the city of El Cajon, California, I am among the 70,000 that belong to the Chaldean culture, a Christian-Catholic minority from Iraq . Over the course of my educational path, I sometimes wondered why I did not have blonde hair and blue eyes like many of my peers, but I finally came to understand that my background is an important trait as it reflects who I am among many and what I value: a strong connection to religion and faith, close familial ties, and the power to believe that anything is possible. The adversity that my parents faced as immigrants from the religious persecution in Iraq has given me the motivation to succeed as I am immensely honored and grateful for the

My greatest talent is I am very self motivated, and I never encourage myself to failing I always help myself to be better than ever. I am very skilled at helping myself do better on things I'm not good at, because I know things look difficult but are easy once it has been practiced. My greatest talent is designing on paper, I Had a really hard time drawing and designing a dress. I started with very basic ideas, then kept motivating myself, and knowing that everything takes time to reach it. Being around with students who had come with the same background as mine has taught me a lot of great skills such as being supportive. I had the ability to support students to be strong even when being in a country they do not know the language. Motivating

My life and career paths took a different turn ever since I came to realize my full talent and potential in sports. This triggered the planning of a crucial conversation between my father and me, and I believe that it is very important for both of us, since the decisions that we shall make will have direct consequences for my family and me at large. Although I have studied hard enough in school and even got the chance to go to college, I feel that I don’t want to pursue a career that is linked to academics. With the recent realization of my full potential in the utilization of my talent, I feel so bored about school and feel that with playing soccer, I might go further compared to where my academics in college would take me. However, my parents

In my kindergarten yearbook, I said that I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up. At the time, my idea of a rock star included wearing big sunglasses, putting the rock hand sign up and playing air guitar. I later went through stages of wanting to be an architect and then a movie director; my mind was all over the place. But somewhere in my five-year-old self, I knew.

Ever since I was young, sports have been a way of life for me. I started playing basketball in first grade, destined to be in the NBA. But only scoring one basket a season was not impressing any scouts. Nonetheless, I kept at it and once I reached seventh grade, it was time for tryouts. With my NBA dream still alive, I went into tryouts with a lot of confidence. When I found out I was cut I was crushed. Almost everyone who did not make it quit playing and never picked up a ball again.

Excelling in school has always been a priority. While most of my peers found excitement in winning in a sports event, I always found that receiving stellar grades to be more rewarding. When I entered high school, my vision for the future was not clear and I was looking for my purpose in the world. I developed a love for chemistry thanks to my teacher, Mrs.Worley. Her passion for the field was displayed in her teaching, which rubbed off on me. I started to think of a career in the field after I learned about a drug that she helped design to fight cancer. I realized for her work that there were so many possibilities in the field that could better the world. This is why I am choosing the pursue a degree in chemistry.

Sports have always been a passion of mine since I was young. I have always been fascinated by all kinds of different athletes and have always wanted to be one as well. In 7th grade I had the opportunity to engage in a sport which was soccer. The experience was amazing and it made me realize I wanted to do more. Next year when I was in the 8th grade I wanted to do more than just soccer. I was never good at basketball or baseball, so those were out of my possibilities. All that was left then was track and field. I had never been a fan of just running, so I was unsure of the chances of me wanting to do this sport, but I was determined to try it. Later on in the year when track and field was coming closer day by day I found out a shocking piece of information. Track was not all about running, there was also a field part of it where you throw items such as shot put and discus. I didn’t know what event I should choose than; running or throwing. All my friends were doing running and I realized I had a tough decision on my hands.

Twenty years ago, I often sat and contemplated what would become of my life in the years to come; and success was always the word that came to mind. I only had this one chance to be fruitful and I planned to attain every possible goal I had set for myself. Within the year of two thousand eighteen I will have graduated from Vista College with a 4.0 GPA, majoring in business management, become a very lucrative business owner, and hopefully a family I can support in the future success the same as mine. Here I stand twenty years later an exact product of what I planned to be and more.

A scholar is defined as, “A person who is highly educated has an aptitude for study.” This definition perfectly describes the reasoning for scholarship as well as the potential future from being a scholar. The impact of being a scholar has allowed me to advance in school and prepare for scholarship outside of high school. Scholarship has allowed me to maintain good grades and with that retain the knowledge gained from my classes. Being a scholar has created the desire to learn and gain as much knowledge as possible. Debate has allowed me to become a better scholar, and with that scholarship has helped me with debate. TSA also has taught me to be scholarly among and with others. The impact of being a scholar has been great on me.

My career path has undoubtedly been influenced by the people who I have come across in my life. Those people have shaped and molded me in some fashion be the person that I am and who I strive to become. I have been and will continue to foster a compassionate ideology and lifestyle. My family coming from no more than the clothes on their back, leaving a worn torn country with no education have helped me better understand my role in life. I know and have come to a remedial understanding of how I am able to forge a better future for myself and family, I am and is undertaking a journey of transformation to become a counselor to serve others. I think that coming from a family with no education background, it was quite difficult to find someone to look up to for guidance future career options. Also, having come from a particularly large family consisting of seven other siblings, I thought that I was overshadowed. As the middle child I was left out usually, so in turn I became independent and select a path to help others that have similar struggles to like I did.

Having had the opportunity to work and live overseas, I have found that my exposure to different cultures, languages and business models has enriched my life and career development far beyond what I could have envisioned. The experience was rewarding in so many ways, that I can’t imagine now not having had it. It has made me a more well-rounded person able to see things through a global lens and appreciate things from myriad perspectives.