Admission Essay I have always been someone that is afraid to fail. From such an early age as I can remember I didn’t like to be the loser in games or get questions wrong on my school work. To me failure meant that you weren’t good enough. My parents never really taught me otherwise. I don’t think my parents really felt that they had to go over failure with me even through college. I encountered many coaches throughout my soccer career and I was always the outstanding player on the team. I was used to winning, winning in games and in the classrooms. I had a terrific freshmen year in college making only A’s and B’s on my report card. I even beat the goal record in soccer without even being aware. I made a lot of friends very quick and I loved …show more content…
I remember how my coach pulled me to the side in the hall one day to speak to me. He told me “Star if you keep things up at the rate that you are, you can really accomplish a lot your senior year. You will be no doubt in my mind the top goal scorer in the state if you make a minimum of goals you did your freshmen year.” The excitement was tremendous and my accomplishment in both school and soccer motivated me. My confidence was over the roof and I can still remember the drive I had that year. I wanted nothing more than to graduate high school and head straight to college to play soccer and get my …show more content…
I remember going into a state of depression and keeping my emotions to myself. Nobody knew how I was feeling and I didn’t want to tell people, because I didn’t want their petty. I wasn’t really trying to be the A and B student that I always pushed myself to be. I was making C’s in my classes and barely maintaining the only B I had in English class. This is the point in my life where I experienced failure. I failed my parents, myself, peers, and teammates. I let one bad situation impact my entire surroundings. I lost some friends and myself through everything. I remember my parents telling me that they were worried about me and that I needed to see the positives in my
My biggest accomplishment throughout high school so far has been learning how to fail. Not necessarily falling flat on my face in a viral video, but instead just barely coming up short and not being able to reach a goal, despite my best efforts. Although I was unaware of it at the time, failing my driver’s test on my first attempt would become a life altering incident.
College Admissions Essay If someone asked me where I am going to be in ten years, this would be my answer. I have a great, high-paying job, and beautiful wife and family, and a nice sports car parked in front of my lovely house. When I look into the future, I see myself being successful and happy. Even though I always pictured myself this way, I never worried too much about how I would get there.
At the start of the semester, my oblivious state of nature associating with the Chinese culture reached an unacceptable level. Implementing a necessary change, I decided to educate myself on different cultures starting with China. I failed to ponder that such a rich, deep culture existed outside America. Encompassed by this country’s unique yet suffocating melting pot culture, my outlook believed ideas such as uniformity between American Chinese food and Authentic Chinese food. After this course, my bigot perspective widened as I witnessed diversity in the world. Before this class, when I thought of Chinese food, my connotation jumped to thoughts associated with chop suey, but as I progressed my education, my mindset gradually pondered foods like steamed buns or “New Year Cakes” with authentic Chinese food.
My transition from middle school to high school was extremely challenging. High school seemed like it was all too much for me at once. I put little effort into anything and I felt that I had nothing to work for. In the spring of my freshman year, baseball came around and I thought there would finally be a turning point in my life. This was something I knew I was extremely talented at and it was one of the few things in my life that I was confident about. It's been my dream ever since I was born to play college baseball and
•I will never abandon my thirst for knowledge. I never stop learning or trying to better my own sense of knowledge about the world or subjects. It’s a sad thing when people stop being interested in the world around them, or decide to remain set in their ways and not learn or explore any new point of view or topic or challenge themselves. I never nor will I ever let anyone stand in the way of my passions or my education. I will try to inspire you.
I remember being ecstatic about graduating highs school. Since my freshmen year my parents and I believed in one dream for my future, industrial engineering. Many of my family members had received an industrial engineering degree and it only made sense that I follow the same path. However, the end of senior year was closing in fast and many of my peers had already sent in college applications. I filled out applications to my schools of choice at least three times but I could never find myself content with submitting it.
“Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave” Curiosity, hard work and zeal to understand and learning are important to achieve success. I am a person who firmly believes in this and following this principle has made me diligent and persistent to know fundamentals. I am always on the lookout for new prospects, which strengthens my foundation and also for Society. I am a person with technical aptitude with special inclination towards biology and co-related areas. My interest in travelling and understanding different cultures has broadened my outlook with varying degrees of knowledge in a range of topics.
Failure has a huge impact on my life. Although it has a way of turning itself into a learning experience. Ever since I was a child I was told to never stop for what I believe in.
Preparing to graduate at 17 and immediately enter the college world is no easy feat in my perspective. So many colleges advertise themselves to me – invitations to tours, alerts of nearby visitations, and so on – but it’s hard to know which one will truly fit me and my needs. I have several advisors including my parents, graduates, currently enrolled students, counselors and even an assistant principal to aid me in my tentative plans beyond high school. Yet I find that something within tells me to take paths they have not recommended. Ways of knowing contradict themselves in the many paths I can possibly choose – evidence presented through mail and email from dozens of colleges (so many letters…), authority shown by those you have already
In all honesty, I do not even remember the precise reason why I decided to attend graduate school, though it was during the summer after my freshman year. Perhaps, because I recurrently kept hearing about graduates from my community and university going abroad for higher studies. Or, maybe I was uncertain about my plans after college and graduate school seemed like the easier alternative or it could be my endeavor to always aim higher. Whatever the reason, the fact remains that I have always had a penchant for an academic setting.
I cannot ever seem to rid myself of my fear of failure. Even with all my academic achievements, there has always been some mentality that forces me to foresee the downsides that come with failure rather than the rewards of success. This also maybe why I hate compliments so much.
Clearly failure is not something for you to fear of. Success is good but it usually make you corky and greedy, where failure give you self-realization and self-examination. So do not be afraid of failure, just put everything you have in to what you doing. Sometime you win sometime you learn. Because if you are so afraid of failure and won’t learn from it, you can literally fail your way to success. Like a wise man said: “Even a broken clock is right twice a
At this moment I challenged myself to always be better than the year I was before. I knew that to finish stronger and become a true champion you have to work when nobody is watching. I had to push myself to be better than I ever was before, my goal was to always move forward never backward. I went to the golf course and played a lot over that summer. I really focused on course management and the mental part of this difficult game. I felt very comfortable with my swing starting the next season firing scores in the mid eighty's. I qualified for Mid-Penns, Districts, and Regionals that year! I was named our most improved player on my team that year. The emotions I felt after this very successful season made me hungry for this feeling. I had to continue to use my failure from freshman year to continue to become a better player today. I have taken this experience and apply it to the way I approach everything I do. I want to work to be the best at something, I know what is needed to achieve this type of success. Failure can have a really positive outcome if the individual uses it as motivation to become better and achieve greater things than they have
Failure happens when something isn't successful. Failure is a thing that all people can learn from. Failures can be used as lessons so that the failure will not be repeated again. One of my greatest failures in life that I've experienced and learned from would be from the time of my first grade year. I didn’t take school seriously when I was in the first grade and made terrible grades. After this failure, it made change the outlook on school and I started trying. I learned that I need to take school serious or else I will do bad in school. This failure lead to success in school and I started making good grades which will help later on in life.
Failure is the result from actions that were not successful, to have failed your actions. Society believes that failure should be hated but it is fundamental to success and to achieve goals. Each human learns from their failures, their success becomes even greater. The key to success is to believe, other want to postpone you into total failure; but you can use those failures for your benefit. I have experienced many failures that have impacted the outcome of my life in negative and positive ways, the most traumatizing failure was my rejection of the National Honor Society. I had dreamed of joining the National Honor Society since the staff had introduced it during the freshmen induction, it had become a goal mine for the entirety of high school.