College Admissions Essay: The First Day Of High School
Most people might say that the first day of high school is a huge crossing, or maybe the one in college. However for me it wasn't a physical crossing that has had the most impact on me, it was more of a mental jump for me with several experiences leading to a realization. I wouldn't say I’ve had a hard life because I have no right to say something like that. However when I became a junior I came into the year a little low I had seen people doing unspeakable things to others. I mean just look at the news and you might see what kind of place we've made. This is the first experience that made me hate how things are. Second I had an accident during a football game which required that I have surgery on my knee. This made me realize
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I'm not sure why I thought school was just 12 years of busy work instead of trying to actually retain the information I mean I understood that we had to “learn,” however it isn't how I understand it now. Now you have to remember what they taught last year, now you’re not going to have someone there to reteach it was up to me. I should've been paying more attention, putting in at least a little effort to learn. I know that this all falls to me and that it is now my responsibility to take action for wasted time and money. The world moves even if you don't and there are people out there who do wicked things and I now feel responsible for taking my easy life for granted. I have the opportunity to change the world, but I need to take the first step that I have been pushing away my whole life. The step that I hopefully will look back on and see it as the start of the life that I have to live, the only one that will leave me happy in the end. I can't squander any longer I wouldn't be able to live with myself like so many others do, I want to change the way the world has worked up to this point for all those that didn't get what I wasted. The ones who realized how cruel a world humans have made before me and hopefully bring a smile to those
I'm not sure why I thought school was just 12 years of busy work instead of trying to actually retain the information I mean I understood that we had to “learn,” however it isn't how I understand it now. Now you have to remember what they taught last year, now you’re not going to have someone there to reteach it was up to me. I should've been paying more attention, putting in at least a little effort to learn. I know that this all falls to me and that it is now my responsibility to take action for wasted time and money. The world moves even if you don't and there are people out there who do wicked things and I now feel responsible for taking my easy life for granted. I have the opportunity to change the world, but I need to take the first step that I have been pushing away my whole life. The step that I hopefully will look back on and see it as the start of the life that I have to live, the only one that will leave me happy in the end. I can't squander any longer I wouldn't be able to live with myself like so many others do, I want to change the way the world has worked up to this point for all those that didn't get what I wasted. The ones who realized how cruel a world humans have made before me and hopefully bring a smile to those