Prove Me Wrong

My biggest contribution to the UConn community will be my fearlessness. I’m not afraid of being proved wrong, I 'm not afraid of failing, and I 'm never afraid of proving myself. When I’m working at robotics I don’t tell people to solve problems creatively, I actively engage in their discussion and love playing the ‘devil’s advocate.’ For example, this year when we were brainstorming the best drive train systems to use for a design challenge they all wanted to do a basic 3x3 system and simply use

father's house, we'll see the rigors of captivity." "How come, Aunt Joaquina?" "How come? ... You'll see. You all know that the ol' sinhô wasn't easy; well, there's a saying — behind me another will come that will do me a better turn — the new sinhô Leôncio ... Huh! ... May God prove me wrong ... methinks he will make us long for the ol' sinhô ..." "By the cross! By the Virgin Mary! ... Don't say that, Aunt Joaquina! ... It be better to kill everyone at once ..." "That

Thick layers of grey smoke floods the once empty street of Tolleson, Arizona. About 20 eyes are pressing onto me as if they were a group of 1000. This feeling scares me, but somehow deep down, it pleases me. I feel as if some sort of key information has been wiped from my memory. As more and more of the smoke clears, my memory is coming back further and further. These memories haunt me. They won't reveal what they are. Only the emotions from these memories leak out. Hiding beneath the smoke is a

Polizzi Final Draft Adjusting to the Truth… I was going to be extremely late. At this point, the clock on my watch couldn 't give me the courage to think otherwise. Nevertheless, I realized I was being very negative about the situation. So I decided to run for it, if I made it, terrific. If not at least I would be able to say I tried. The way my mom has always taught me to keep trying no matter how many obstacles you have in front of you, to keep trying because there’s so much more satisfaction in

“Radioactive? You mean that little thing could be contaminating everything around us? Like me? And what-” Nash held a finger over my lips to quiet me. “I’ll explain everything. You don’t need to mess with the technetium unless you have some kind of background in plutonium engineering. The two metals, technetium and plutonium, aren’t the same, but they’re similar enough

alarm woke me up on another sun-drenched day. It wasn't just any day… it was the day I was finally going to prove everyone incorrect. It was the final soccer match of the season for The Panthers. When I joined the squad , the other kids and even the coach thought I was in the wrong sport. They said I was too short and small and would get stepped on like a plant. I spent the whole season being treated like an ant. In the beginning I pronounced that by the end of the season, I would prove everyone wrong

college or other things along those lines. Don't get me wrong, I believe that college is the exact fix to those situations and rock on for people with that mindset. But....I personally believe that college is not the place you go to fix your problems, I think it's the place that gives you the resources and education to fix your problems, but it doesn't fix your problems for you. Back to why I want to attend college. I want to attend college to prove all the people that said a sentence that began with:

telling you to just do the action and not think about it. My parents always told me to do the action instead of the talking because they never wanted me to be cocky about something. I would always tell my brothers that i was better than them in basketball but when it came to the action they beat me every time so that’s why rents thought me not to use words so every time someone thinks they’re better than me I tell them to prove it. One day I was at the park and my

Not good enough, prove them wrong; to some is just six words for me it is different these are words I live by. There is a huge amount of significance to me in this memoir. So many times people have said I cannot do something or I am not good enough or they implied it. This memoir is something to live by; it is also something with meaning to me. It means whenever people are saying you are not good enough, prove them wrong make them see that you are good enough. When I was playing travel softball

people to take on a challenge. People often take on challenges to prove someone wrong or for personal growth. The pursuit of proving someone wrong may motivate an individual to take on a challenge. For example, in Timbuktu, “Still when a person tells me I can’t do something, I’ll want to do it all the more” (Salak 5). Based on this quote, Salak was motivated to take on a journey to prove the people who doubted her wrong. She wanted to prove to people that she can take on the same challenge that Mungo