Undergraduate / I dream of playing soccer; Vanderbilt - extracurricular activities or work experiences [5]

1. Please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work experiences (Recommended length: 250 words)
Every morning I dream of playing soccer against other rival clubs of my favorite soccer club "Manchester United." Unfortunately in my dream, when Rooney passes me the ball and I fiercely move towards the goal post to score my fabulous goal my mom wakes me up scolding me that I was getting late for my soccer training. Then, I get out to the soccer field with drowsy eyes. And I ask myself a simple question that why do I love soccer? Then I start my warm up exercise and answering myself that soccer is just a simple team game in which full teamwork and communication is required, also I compare myself as a decision maker because I should know the fact that decisions I make can affect my team mates. After the warm up, we start the actual training part which includes dribbling, passing and shooting. With dedication I complete my training course. The practice game is pretty stimulating. Even the players, who get tired because of training, stand up just to participate in the actual match. Every match requires demonstration of discipline and fairness. At the end of training, I do realize why I like soccer, and I can clearly use all the techniques that soccer teaches indirectly in my own life.

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Undergraduate / Hydrophobia; College of William and Mary ; optional opportunity [5]

1. Beyond your impressive academic credentials and extracurricular accomplishments, what else makes you unique and colorful? We know nobody fits neatly into 500 words or less, but you can provide us with some suggestion of the type of person you are. Anything goes! Inspire us, impress us, or just make us laugh. Think of this optional opportunity as show and tell by proxy and with an attitude.

I stood there, gazing into the swimming pool with my shivering body. Hydrophobia is the scientific term given to the fear of water. It's abrupt to imagine a twelve year old could be afraid of water. Not specifically water, but I was petrified of the depths of swimming pools.

Back in 2006, I was nine. My cousins were taking swimming classes in those long-hot summer days. They always competed with each other while I watched the fierce and close competition between them. One day, instead of competing with each other they thought of a prank which they wanted to try on me. They literally pulled me into the swimming pool. Full of panic, I tried to get out of the water. I realized the fact that more you move your body you start to drown more. Noticing me drowning my cousins called my dad who saved me from the menace. Sobbing with tears all around my numb face got worse when I got a fever due to anxiety.

Approximately after two years, I was eleven and surprisingly a friend of mine gifted me a swimming tube. I tried to stay away from swimming pool, specially pool parties and beaches. My parents often mockingly told me that I was just too scared of water. But the fact was that I was never afraid of water but was afraid of the depths. I took a deep breath and I realized that the past cannot harm me unless I let it to. My motivating father took me to swimming pool. It was the time for me to learn how to swim. Then stuck the disaster, when I entered the pool, the circular waves gave me a severe headache due to which I got a panic fever. What actually happened in the pool can be explained best by Reflection of light: which implies that what we see depends on the medium through which the light travels. So, the floor of pool seemed to be more terrifying.

The mission to overcome the fear of depths of water appeared like a ray of light trying to pass through a small hole. After a year, I went on a vacation with my parents to Thailand, where we were supposed to visit Pattaya Beach. My father insisted me of going under water, but I was just petrified. I could have denied and stayed in hotel room, but a talk with my mom encouraged me. How could I be so distressing as to let my past control my present and my future? If my determination would force me to go under water, then I was going to do it.

So I did. I shut my eyes and prayed to god. The moment I entered the ocean, my worries vanished. I cannot explain how beautiful nature is. I saw nature, fishes swirling around me. My dad's hand wouldn't let me go because I didn't know how to swim. I learned something from this unconventional that fears are not meant to control our lives. It was the best moment of my life. I guarantee the elegancy that an under-ocean shows is promising. At that best moment of my life, I then took the oath that I would never let any fear control my life. Now, I can swim pretty well. I can proudly say that I conquered my fear and moving towards the quest for conquering the world.

Undergraduate / What is your favorite word and Why? - Ambition ( UVA) [6]

My favorite word "Ambition" -UVA writing supplement

Ambition. The word itself is an example of every other individual's dream. Everyone follows an ambitious person. The word itself becomes your own dream, and forces you to become a risk-taker and futuristic person about every responsibility.

It's my responsibility to do something special with my life, and I will try to accomplish something special by achieving my ambition.

Ambition is defined as "to achieve something typically by hard-work and determination". Most people relate ambition to the concept of Passion vs. Obsession. Having a desire is not a sin. Yes, for many people their desire might be unrealistic, but trying not to achieve is unpleasant. Also passion for ambition is always superior over obsession. I have passion for my ambition. My ambition can be compared with technology, where people have desire to develop new inventions for better social benefits. This is exactly what my ambition is. Every step towards my dream may be full of failure, but every other failure gives me a new start. And with every other new start, my determination and working capability increases. With no ambition, a person may not define his life. I am proud that I have an ambition which I will achieve. If Charles Babbage, father of computer science, didn't have determination to complete his device, so-called computer at present, then I wouldn't have been able to type up this essay in my laptop.

To contribute society with a unique invention is my ambition. Even completing this essay and getting into a good college is my ambition. My present is my future; therefore ambition is my favorite word because it makes me futuristic and hard-working.