Prompt: A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Discuss your experiences and characteristics that you believe would add to a college community.
I have never asked God for help. I have never asked him for wealth, glory, or fame, or for love, comfort, or solace. I have never asked for anyone’s hand to hold. I have been forced to rely on myself for as long as I can remember. This is the hymn which my life sings. Even as a child, I was left to find the means to an end alone. My parents worked shifts from early dawn until midnight to pay for the home we shared with two other families, a snare they fell into, set for them by the greedy, fraudulent, and selfish.
I am the result of two people who fled a country torn asunder by revolution and warfare, joined together thousands of miles from their home, in an English country speaking only Vietnamese. The lack of education and resources set them as the underdogs of their new home, but the desire to create a future for their children led them to sacrifice their livelihoods for their children’s sake. However, caught up in the fervor to provide, they neglected the warmth and tenderness children crave. I was given all I needed to do well in school: pencils, pens, paper, backpacks, and any supply requested by any teacher. In the process, I lost compassion and emotion.
I am the determined, focused axle upon which my life’s goals rotate. Numerous pursuits have forced experience into me and have drawn metamorphoses from me. Each initiation I take on is the beginning of a glorious end. For six years, I played in a school wind ensemble, and for my seventh I took on an individual study of the oboe. Hours into the night practicing has taught me that hard work and desire can achieve anything. It revealed the comfort that culture can provide, and the transient pulse that travels above the planes of reality. For three years, I have been to each and every practice that I could attend at my fencing academy, straining and struggling to perform my best at each one. Fencing honed my precision and grace. Its close parallelism with life taught me lessons that are forever burned in scars and muscle. Working for a company has illustrated the value of toil and even more, it gave me a taste of what my parents drudge through to assure my opportunities for success. For fourteen years of schooling, formal and informal, I have taken on the most rigorous course loads and each undertaking was executed with equal vehemence. Every year marks the totem with success.
I am the innovative and the socially aware. I find new ways each day to make myself a better person, in any way possible. For my last true summer in high school, I attended Harvard University’s summer school and studied diligently for my courses. To counteract financial difficulty, I began to work part time, using my earnings to create an independence that would catalyze my growth into a mature adult. When I outgrew my shell, I started a business, which my partner and I still run jointly. Each friendship and relationship is treated with the zenith of respect and care, resulting in close bonds that even the most gregarious would admire.
I am the first generation college bound student in my family. I am the new world, usurping the old; I am development, I am change; I am the evolution, pure and Darwinist; I am the revolution, chaotic and insurgent. Responsibilities, burdens, and glory are seized in my hands and I have wrung every opportunity out of my life, indulging in its sweet poison, paying in body and effort.
beautiful i love your use of Livda in the main thesis. u are a powerful influential profen in the community. i have forwarded this essay to my colleagues.
July 30th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
beautiful i love your use of Livda in the main thesis. u are a powerful influential profen in the community. i have forwarded this essay to my colleagues.
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July 30th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
OH MY GOD! didn’t you say you guys only spoke Vietnamese? so english is a second language for you!? wow english is my first language and i cant even use it that beautifully!
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