Personal Narrative: Ithaca College

The first word that comes to my mind when I think of Rutgers University is the place of opportunities. Variety of successful people with good experience are being a member of this society would be full of blessing and beneficial privilege. As a future Rutgers student as I wish , I am sure I will be able to combine my strength , patience and thinking level with the high level of education in Rutgers . I am proud to say I came from Egypt ; the country of great culture and intelligent scientists and mathematician. I also was picked to join the national honor society in my school as I have the highest GPA. I believe that I can truly express my individuality at this university, and hope to bring something new like I did in my high school and in

East Carolina University is and has always been a dream school for many students including myself. I have grown up hearing about the University and it is nothing short of spectacular. Many family members of mine have attended East Carolina, and I have always pictured myself at this school. It would be an honor to be a pirate. Throughout high school I have struggled in Science and Math. I know I could have done better in high school but in life you can always do something better, im eager to push myself more and work harder than ever to succeed as an adult, if given the chance There are many times when I should I have put school in front of my extra curricular activities such as dancing, art, work, tennis, and swimming. However, all of those

It is Sunday morning in Miami, but for me today is a new beginning where my independence start and I can use my time wisely. Therefore, I decided to travel to the beach, with the windows down having the wind run through my hair and having my favorite song "Independent Woman" play on the radio. The sound of the waves of the ocean it was incredible and peacefully, which reminds me of the feeling of comfort when I am sitting on Brandon. Another example why Brandon is important in my life, it is because, during high school, I spent plenty of time waiting for the bus to travel to work and home, and in today's day time is valuable. However, I lost time being incapable of buying me a car. Missing the bus plenty of times and having to count on my friend

In my last two years of highschool I duel enrolled St. Petersburg Community College, my local community college. In my senior year I decided to take online classes due to the very long drive to the nearest campus. I ended up taking Calculus with Analytic Geometry and two other classes online. My Calculus proffessor did not teach or provide any materiel to learn from other than the text book and homework questions. For the first quarter of the class I did well and completed all the assignments easily; however, the class got harder and the textbook no longer provided me with enough information to complete the assignments. I struggled through this part of the class and had a hard time mainting my grade which I wanted to keep as high as possible. After several trips to the campus for tutoring and spending hours trying to find other external resources I began to learn how to solve the problems and brought my grade back up and finally passed the class with an A.

Before coming to James Madison University I had no clue what I wanted to get involved in. Whether it was a club sport, business related group, or a social fraternity I just wanted to be apart of something that was bigger than myself. At the beginning of the school year I looked into tryouts for club baseball, the Madison Investment Fund and rush schedules for fraternities on campus. I quickly found out that club baseball wasn’t for me, at least for my freshman year. I then asked around about MIF and got the sense that you needed a very heavy Economics background and that it was very challenging to be accepted as a freshman. MIF is something I hope to get involved in next fall. In the back of my head I always knew that a social fraternity was what

HELLO GUYS!!! I have something veryyyyyyyy important to tell you! After all of my stressing about FAFSA ( Free Application Federal Student Aid) , Colleges, and Transportation, I decided to further my education at Rowan University. It took me a long time to make this decision because this wasn’t my first choice! My first choice/ dream school was LIU Brooklyn ( Long Island University) in Brooklyn, New York. I was recently accepted there and planned on attending there, but their out-of-state tuition was extremely high! Their tuition was $33,000 a year and poor black man like myself, cannot afford it. I really loved LIU because it's a great school, beautiful campus, and most of all, it's in New York. I had my whole planned before it even started,

       On Thursday, August 20th 2015 I was accepted into College of Southern Nevada. On Friday, August 21st, 2015 I arrived onto the CSN West Charleston Campus at around seven o'clock in the morning to be one of the first people to take the math, reading, and writing placement tests for the day. After I took the placement tests, I went to the Student Recruitment office and spoke to a woman named Kimiko Walton. I told Kimiko about what happened to me and she recruited me. Afterwards, I purchased my textbooks from the bookstore (a typical mistake made by college freshmens). As I existed the double doors of the CSN bookstore, I told myself: "Nobody can give me the life I deserve expect myself..." On

I stood in front of my vanity mirror as I did every morning, a bad but an ineluctable habit of mine. I traced my scar from my eyebrow to my cheekbone with my finger. I suppose most people see scars as a sign of survivor, but all I ever saw was my weakness. I don’t mean to be querulous, I was grateful to be alive, I just seemed to constantly be reminded of my mistakes. I shook my head, wishing I could pinion myself so I could stop obsessing over it. As I was leaving that morning, my cocker spaniel sat like a portier at the front door, his big brown eyes pleading me to stay. I felt bad for having to leave him, so I went to go give him a treat. He knew what was happening as soon as I started walking towards the kitchen and started to jump around

As a person who was born and raised in New York City, the letters N, Y, and U are practically tattooed on my heart. NYU is legendary, its New York campus sits in a magical part of the city, no school can compare. There is something indescribable about New York and I cannot imagine leaving this place. New York City is my home, there is no substitute for its distinct hustle and bustle. There is a drive that only New Yorkers have, always rushing, racing, going; we simply move to a beat of our own. NYU is iconic, it is a part of every day life for us. From Langone Medical Center to NYU Film School, the work done at NYU is world renowned. NYU is the greatest thing that has ever happened to New York and I desperately want to be a part of its greatness.

Even though I have not been all around the world, I consider myself a traveler, particularly when I travel to Greece to visit family. People there know I am not Greek just by the way I carry myself, and I can't decide if it's good or bad that I stick out. My olive skin tone and brown almond-shaped eyes may look Greek, but I don’t act Greek. I don’t even speak the language fluently. My broken sentences aren't a problem when it comes to making friends because Greeks convey their emotions with expressive hands gestures. Even though everyone there is friendly, I still feel like an outsider. The language barrier and my American cultural mindset isolate me, but both allow me to see Greece differently than the locals and to become introspective.

One challenge that I anticipate at first will be the fact that this is a big-time school and I have never dreamed that big. My mission was to get an associate and that was enough. I am the first generation to attend college in my family, so any school was good enough for me. Because of this scholarship opportunity I can dream even bigger and hopefully my prayers will be answer. I plan on navigation and overcoming any obstacles with the power of God, my wife’s support, and the wonderful people at Elmhurst College that I have already

Through the education that I would receive at Indiana I hope to win a job in a full-time orchestra in either the 3rd horn or Principal horn seat with an adjunct teaching job at a local school. At Indiana I am interested in taking part in their performing ensembles, in fact, I want to collaborate with my fellow horn players to create a horn choir that plays 21st century music as well as the traditional classical pieces. Besides my musical endeavors I hope to take part in the Undergraduate Mock Trial club to compete against other schools while doing something different that I would in my musical studies.

While searching for my ideal school I did research on a plethora of schools. What stood out to me about Northwestern University was that you immediately notice how much Northwestern values and strives for diversity and inclusion. As an undocumented student myself It means the world to me when I see the president of Northwestern, Morton Schapiro, and the institution as a whole stand up for DACA students. As a future physics major I also hope to get the best education possible and numerous research opportunities in order to succeed in my field. With over fifty university research institutes and centers as well as over 600 million dollars in annual sponsored research I can be sure to get the best research opportunities possible at Northwestern.

The first time I stepped off the 30th Street Station Amtrak Train to walk over to the University of Pennsylvania, I was nervous. I had fallen in love with Penn online, but like a scary blind date, what if the school was not actually how it seemed? What if I did not find the school’s community inviting, especially as a minority? What if I did not love eating from Wawa or the abundant food trucks? My father smiled at my vocalized worries as we walked the 0.8 miles down Market Street and Woodland Walk. He knew something I did not yet. That was that there was no way I could not fall in love with the University of Pennsylvania. As I strolled onto Penn’s campus and stepped onto Locust Walk, I found out how life at Penn is not one’s destination, but only the beginning of their pivotal journey.

I would also like to mention that I applied to attend NYU in the Fall of 2016. But during the time admissions notified students of their acceptance I was studying abroad in China at Nanjing University for a month to perfect my mandarin that I have been learning for the past few semesters. Upon my return back to the United States I was told from an admissions advisor at NYU that they are sorry to inform me that they had to give my seat up to another student since I didn't answer to the acceptance notice in a timely manner. Due to me being out of the country I didn't have access to the internet or phone service therefore I wasn't able to respond. I was told that in that case nothing can be done and I would have to reapply to the school. Since