mstevenson
Oct 31, 2012
Undergraduate / Significant Experience Essay: Road Trip [5]
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Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.
It was the summer of 2007, I was twelve years old standing in my driveway in Upstate New York, about to step in a car and leave on my journey of discovering America. It was my dad's idea. He thought it would be a great idea to put my brother, sister, and I in a car and explore America for a month, from New York to California (and everything in between). My brother, sister, and I each had a designated role in the expedition and mine was what I thought I always had a keen sense of, navigation. With the help of old maps and our fancy new GPS, I was to help choose the route and guide us to our chosen destinations. The trip turned out to be extraordinary and one of the greatest experiences of my life. Over the course of the trip, I was fortunate to be able to see and experience some of America's most iconic and beautiful sites including Mount Rushmore, the Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, the Sequoia's, and the Grand Canyon. I gained a new found respect for America's beauty. But in a few ways, the trip was even more than this. As we pulled back into our driveway in small Webster New York one month after we had left on this wild journey, I was a different person. I had taken trips before, but this one was different. Driving almost 7,000 miles across the United States and back changed me. I discovered that you do not know much about something until you actually experience it. I thought I knew my country prior to the trip, but I certainly did not. From the simplistic lives of the Pine Ridge Indians in South Dakota, to the bustling, affluent community of Beverly Hills, I experienced first hand the vast amount of cultures and diversity there is in America. The trip gave me the opportunity to see life from a new perspective and experience a part of American society I had never seen before. It wasn't as if I wasn't aware of the vast amount of diversity in America, but I had never seen or experienced much of it. The trip also gave me a greater liking to adventure, taking risks, and trying new things. I was a bit wary about how the trip would turn out prior to leaving and was questioning whether I really wanted to be in a car for a month of my summer. It seems as though when you take risks in life and step out of your comfort zone and things turn out alright, you grow and become more willing to try new things. The trip has given me a sense of the amazing things that are out there in our world and the importance of going out and discovering these things.
Hello! Thanks for the help!
Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.
It was the summer of 2007, I was twelve years old standing in my driveway in Upstate New York, about to step in a car and leave on my journey of discovering America. It was my dad's idea. He thought it would be a great idea to put my brother, sister, and I in a car and explore America for a month, from New York to California (and everything in between). My brother, sister, and I each had a designated role in the expedition and mine was what I thought I always had a keen sense of, navigation. With the help of old maps and our fancy new GPS, I was to help choose the route and guide us to our chosen destinations. The trip turned out to be extraordinary and one of the greatest experiences of my life. Over the course of the trip, I was fortunate to be able to see and experience some of America's most iconic and beautiful sites including Mount Rushmore, the Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, the Sequoia's, and the Grand Canyon. I gained a new found respect for America's beauty. But in a few ways, the trip was even more than this. As we pulled back into our driveway in small Webster New York one month after we had left on this wild journey, I was a different person. I had taken trips before, but this one was different. Driving almost 7,000 miles across the United States and back changed me. I discovered that you do not know much about something until you actually experience it. I thought I knew my country prior to the trip, but I certainly did not. From the simplistic lives of the Pine Ridge Indians in South Dakota, to the bustling, affluent community of Beverly Hills, I experienced first hand the vast amount of cultures and diversity there is in America. The trip gave me the opportunity to see life from a new perspective and experience a part of American society I had never seen before. It wasn't as if I wasn't aware of the vast amount of diversity in America, but I had never seen or experienced much of it. The trip also gave me a greater liking to adventure, taking risks, and trying new things. I was a bit wary about how the trip would turn out prior to leaving and was questioning whether I really wanted to be in a car for a month of my summer. It seems as though when you take risks in life and step out of your comfort zone and things turn out alright, you grow and become more willing to try new things. The trip has given me a sense of the amazing things that are out there in our world and the importance of going out and discovering these things.