sfchawks01
Jun 4, 2010
Undergraduate / Do you believe in fate: UF Admission essay! [5]
In the space provided, please write a concise narrative in which you describe a meaningful event, experience or accomplishment in your life and how it will affect your college experience or your contribution to the UF campus community. You may want to reflect on your ideas about student responsibility, academic integrity, campus citizenship or a call to service.
Do you believe in fate:
A couple of months ago I went on a journey that changed my future. My father won an all expenses paid cruise to Mexico: Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan, and Puerto Vallarta. He was not even supposed to win this trip. It was by luck, you could say, that Sterling took the next one-hundred people along that just missed their sales goal. It was my first cruise and I was thrilled, yet at the same time kind of nervous. Once on the massive ship there are certain excursions you can book for each port. I wanted to go on the ATV excursion so bad, but as it turns out the law is the same in Mexico and you have to be eight-teen to ride. I was seven-teen. We settle on the next best thing which was a Jeep 4x4 excursion, which was fun. This was at Puerto Vallarta, where I met the person that cleared my vision of the future. My father and I got paired up with him and his wife. His name was Louis and boy did he love to talk. He asked me what I planed to do when I graduated high school and I told him college. He asked me what I wanted to be and I told him that I was not sure. We started to talk, and then he began to tell me about his career as a nuclear engineer. I did not think much of it at the time other than it being interesting. A couple of days later in the airport my father was reading a newspaper article about the rise in population of nuclear plants across the United States. It didn't hit me instantly, but as time passed I became more and more interested in this genre of study. I based my senior high school schedule strongly around math and science: AP Calculus, AP Physics, and AP Environmental Science, to name a few of my classes. I have always had a passionate interest in math and science, and have consistently excelled in them, as far as grades. Since the trip I have invested many hours into researching the opportunities and requirements of the field. Not knowing my profession, I went through almost my first three years of high school devoted to The University of South Florida, but now having been enlightened about the endless opportunity in this field at The University of Florida my path has taken a turn for the better. I can see myself enjoying studying engineering here and making a lifetime career of it. Call it what you whish, but I call it fate.
In the space provided, please write a concise narrative in which you describe a meaningful event, experience or accomplishment in your life and how it will affect your college experience or your contribution to the UF campus community. You may want to reflect on your ideas about student responsibility, academic integrity, campus citizenship or a call to service.
Do you believe in fate:
A couple of months ago I went on a journey that changed my future. My father won an all expenses paid cruise to Mexico: Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan, and Puerto Vallarta. He was not even supposed to win this trip. It was by luck, you could say, that Sterling took the next one-hundred people along that just missed their sales goal. It was my first cruise and I was thrilled, yet at the same time kind of nervous. Once on the massive ship there are certain excursions you can book for each port. I wanted to go on the ATV excursion so bad, but as it turns out the law is the same in Mexico and you have to be eight-teen to ride. I was seven-teen. We settle on the next best thing which was a Jeep 4x4 excursion, which was fun. This was at Puerto Vallarta, where I met the person that cleared my vision of the future. My father and I got paired up with him and his wife. His name was Louis and boy did he love to talk. He asked me what I planed to do when I graduated high school and I told him college. He asked me what I wanted to be and I told him that I was not sure. We started to talk, and then he began to tell me about his career as a nuclear engineer. I did not think much of it at the time other than it being interesting. A couple of days later in the airport my father was reading a newspaper article about the rise in population of nuclear plants across the United States. It didn't hit me instantly, but as time passed I became more and more interested in this genre of study. I based my senior high school schedule strongly around math and science: AP Calculus, AP Physics, and AP Environmental Science, to name a few of my classes. I have always had a passionate interest in math and science, and have consistently excelled in them, as far as grades. Since the trip I have invested many hours into researching the opportunities and requirements of the field. Not knowing my profession, I went through almost my first three years of high school devoted to The University of South Florida, but now having been enlightened about the endless opportunity in this field at The University of Florida my path has taken a turn for the better. I can see myself enjoying studying engineering here and making a lifetime career of it. Call it what you whish, but I call it fate.