you can.” Now I realize what that means. Last year as a junior‚ it was my first year taking AP classes. I had taken honors classes before so how hard could it be? But I soon realized that the differences between my underclassman and upperclassman experience would be very
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My experience with words goes way back. Much like Sherman Alexie‚ I was very young when first exposed to words‚ so young I can’t remember there being a time before books were a part of my life. I imagine my mother was was reading to me since my first day of life. She would read me story after story in the quiet hours before bedtime‚ stories about fantastic creatures and magical places. I never wanted the stories to end. Before I could fully understand words I had loved them. When I finally grew
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before my senior year of High School. I lived a life where I wasn’t worried about the future let alone death; I was worried about the present and what I had now. It started with a girl and ended with a trip down a flight of stairs. My near death experience has tremendously changed the way I live and perceive life‚ thus defining who I am. Now before I tell you the exact moment of what happen‚ I have to tell you what lead up to one of the most monumental events of my life. It was breezy but cool early-morning
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just given up on hockey and restrained myself to the activities where I felt comfortable but I have always liked challenges. I have to prove to myself that I am capable of doing anything I want in life‚ it doesn’t matter how hard it might be. This experience has made me a more powerful person in the sense that I believe in myself. No one can take that away from me‚ I learned that as long as I trust in my abilities to overcome any obstacle in my life there will always be a way to reach
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My educational experience throughout my life has been a rollercoaster ride. The rollercoaster first shot out in high school where I realized that this next four years will matter. At first it was a slow start to the ride; I started off my first year of high school with a cumulative GPA of a 2.8 but it started to go back up as I began to take responsibility and organize myself. My next three years showed to pay dividend as my GPA drove back‚ but not as high as I wanted it. During these 4 years‚ is
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generations. As the years went by and I was able to really have conversations with my parents regarding race‚ I realized there was so much I wish they had share with me and my siblings. The best way to facilitate the learning and support of those who have experience racism is being open to communicating about difficult issues regarding
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M’s experience because I did move from Japan a couple of years ago. I agree with her in that we faced challenges because of the language barrier. I did not learn English until I moved here so it was hard to adapt to the new culture. Although we are in a similar
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My experience in teaching has mainly been in the role of teaching assistant for various courses at McGill University. I believe that academic teaching and mentoring is a challenging endeavor. To be effective as a teacher and as an advisor‚ I will encourage the following skills that I have learned and applied at McGill as a teaching assistant. During my senior graduate years‚ I took a leadership role in the Expert Systems in Electrical Design (ECSE 549) course‚ which included the opportunity to
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I guess you can say that my experience as a writer over the years has got better‚ and the reason why I say that is because I only remember writing 3 things. One was in my history class about either World War 2 or about the Slave Trade. At first it took me a few mins but I guess you can say that I was having trouble on how to put my words and information down on paper. I had to do some re-search on writing essays or papers‚ that way I could get the idea of how mine would look or turn out. Once I
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My best and worst quality is my excessive curiosity‚ especially when it comes to space travel and programs related to it. This quality sometimes gets me into trouble because I will drop any activity I am doing to find answers to satisfy my curiosity. This quality has a good side; with curiosity I also expand my knowledge in many subjects that I am interested in. I will use my major in Aerospace to satisfy my curiosity of space flight and achieve my goals to work for NASA. One of the main reasons
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