Free College Admissions Essays: My Passion For Reading

Growing up I have always been fond of learning and taking in new information, and exploring the world around me. As early as my head start years, I found that I loved to read books and I would sit quietly all day in a corner by myself reading. My love of reading came from me watching my older sister read, and I remember I would get jealous because I could not read yet. Because of that, I demanded that I have books too, and soon I was able to teach myself new words and read all by myself. My passion for reading and understanding the information grew into something more as I got older and enrolled in school. From kindergarten, all the way to now I was very competitive and I still am with my other classmates. I told myself from a very early age

She is the one who has driven me do more because she knows I push myself to improve both my strengths and weaknesses. As I grew older, it seemed that I started to have more of an insight into the type of person of I am. I started to see my personality change. For example, when I was younger I was a quiet, shy girl. Now as a teenager I see a change in myself. I still am quiet, but now I am more outspoken and less shy. I let my voice and opinion be heard. My personality does not focus around pleasing others and making them happy. As long as I am happy, then the rest of the world does not even exist to me. I think this is the reason I am mainly antisocial at school. But I realized that I am not at school to make friends. No, I am here instead to try to get the best education that Newton High School can offer. That is why I apply myself to my classes and study everyday. Though this is the serious side to my personality, I also have a laid-back, relaxed side that makes up the other half of my personality. For example, on weekends I tend to forget about school and let everything that happened that week go. On the weekends, I am not busy I love to bury myself in my room under the covers and just