Athletic Scholarship Essay

Part of being a high school student-athlete is absorbing all of the associated cliches with relation to one's future. The main cliche obviously being to earn a scholarship and commit to a school which offers you the most bragging rights, or at least that’s how I saw it. Committing to a college for me, having been right in the middle of my athletic season, was largely a choice between which school allowed my running career to thrive the most. Though this wasn’t necessarily a poor way to look for a school, I undeniably failed to consider my academic goals.

After enrolling into the college which had offered me the best opportunity to flash among my friends how large my athletic scholarship was as if somehow that would enhance my college experience, a humbling reality knocked down my wall of pride. Before my first collegiate race, I

Not due to any superior intelligence, as I do not think that is the case, alternatively, just a strong desire to achieve academically beyond what is commonplace. Not only do I feel isolated as an extremely passionate student, but also as a physics major. With so few of us at my school (me being the only first-year physics major), I find it difficult to maintain a sense of drive and competition in my schoolwork. Expanding creative thinking, sharing thoughts, pondering deep questions, etc., also prove arduous to accomplish unless it is a professor with whom I am sharing my word-vomit.

It is not that I find it cumbersome to have a closer relationship with my professors than with my peers, instead just a desire to find friends passionate about the same subject. Transferring to a university with a larger student body, larger physics program, and more passionate students will allow me to immerse myself into my academics and find competition in the classroom that pushes me to excel beyond my self-originating