College Admissions Essay: Just Do Your Best

"Just do your best," is the phrase I grew up hearing all throughout my life. But doing my best was always something I couldn't do lightly, I had to be the very best at everything I did.

I was taught at an early age that academics came first and were always a top priority. Every night my father would dedicate hours of his time to sit me down at the kitchen table so he could help me with my homework and would take ten words from the dictionary to make sentences out of them so I would be able to polish my handwriting while learning new vocabulary words as well. The goal from this was to strengthen my reading and writing skills, which at the time I struggled with.

In elementary school, I was evaluated only to discover I had a learning disability, which meant I couldn't read, write, or do basic math at the level my peers could. I had to dedicate a lot of extra time to work on those skills before being able to proceed to the next grade level, which my father especially had dedicated to doing. He, along with my teachers
Though during my second year in college I had decided that I wanted to branch out more and join a few organizations on campus while taking my courses. During the first semester of my second year in college, I had joined psychology club, becoming a member at large before being nominated to become the Vice President of the club. As the Vice President, I had come up with weekly topics to discuss during each meeting, including icebreakers and games that we would have at the beginning of every meeting. As a result, I was able to raise more awareness for psychology club which recruited more members to gain an interest in not only the club but the topic that surrounds itself with psychology, as