Discuss An Accomplishment Or Event That Marked Your Transition From Childhood To Adulthood
Garrett Brown
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Columbia College Chicago-Essay Prompt:
Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.
I chose this question not only to expound on my beliefs and explain more about who I am, but also due to the relevance this event has to my choosing of my major in this college. This event was the result of my own self will and an exercise in a newfound independence in thought I have developed in recent years. This event is layered with a story of determination, rebellion, and hopes with a sprinkle of soul searching just to round things out. Not only that but this story and decision has and more than likely will continue to change my future. …show more content…
I was tearing it up at the time as my academic achievements lit up those years of my life as I stayed firmly in the 1st Honors Roll, held school records in reading, winning the science far, along with my mind simply brimming with inteligence that and still continues to awe peers and even those higher up than me. But back to being impressionable was what lead me to seek to initially choose to cast aside other seemingly frivolous and ignorant carrer paths which blinded me. I sought this path due to it being the path both my brother and father had taken first in college so I was determined with all my greatness to do that at the urging of family with the hopes I’d fufill a dream they’d laid out for me. However upon reaching highschool and falling into a mental rut I soon began to become more humble and take my life into perspective myself and began to realize that I should broaden my
Chour
Columbia College Chicago-Essay Prompt:
Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.
I chose this question not only to expound on my beliefs and explain more about who I am, but also due to the relevance this event has to my choosing of my major in this college. This event was the result of my own self will and an exercise in a newfound independence in thought I have developed in recent years. This event is layered with a story of determination, rebellion, and hopes with a sprinkle of soul searching just to round things out. Not only that but this story and decision has and more than likely will continue to change my future. …show more content…
I was tearing it up at the time as my academic achievements lit up those years of my life as I stayed firmly in the 1st Honors Roll, held school records in reading, winning the science far, along with my mind simply brimming with inteligence that and still continues to awe peers and even those higher up than me. But back to being impressionable was what lead me to seek to initially choose to cast aside other seemingly frivolous and ignorant carrer paths which blinded me. I sought this path due to it being the path both my brother and father had taken first in college so I was determined with all my greatness to do that at the urging of family with the hopes I’d fufill a dream they’d laid out for me. However upon reaching highschool and falling into a mental rut I soon began to become more humble and take my life into perspective myself and began to realize that I should broaden my