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Nov 12, 2014
Undergraduate / Growing up I was always an uncaring and irresponsible kid - about one interest or experience [3]
Tell us about one interest or experience of yours that allows us to get to know you better as an individual. Under 300 words. can you give me advice and help cut down words
Growing up I was always an uncaring and irresponsible kid. Whatever I asked my parents for I received. I thought that I could have everything I wanted and it would never end; everything seemed so easy and reachable. Rarely in my life had I reflected on any memories from my childhood until now. At such young age didn't realize the gravity of what my parents were sacrificing to give to me and my brother. I became fully aware of my dad's biggest sacrifice the sacrifice he made for me and my brother when my father left my family in Mexico to come to America to send money for us in order to have a brighter future and a better life than he had. He worked 12 hour shifts and still managed to call at night to ask how my day was going and how I was. My father is a man I look up to but I also know my mother had to be a strong woman in order to be able to raise two young kids by herself. There was times when she faced away from my brother and I so we wouldn't see her cry when things weren't going well financially and she didn't know how to keep food in the table. Eventually things got better and my mother, my brother, and I joined my father in America. Everything that my parents have done is for my brother and I. Even now when my Dad gets home from a long work day and I see the dirt in his face and the redness of his eyes from the dust from the factory he works at. He tells me he has done everything for me, for I could have a better chance at life than him. I have grown up and no longer an uncaring irresponsible kid. I have inherited my parents drive to keep going and to keep moving forward when things get tough. Their sacrifices have made me who I am. They placed their trust in me to inherit their hopes and dreams. The sacrifices that my parents made for me will not be in vain, because one day I will make them proud as proud as I am of being their son by being the first in my family to go to college.
Tell us about one interest or experience of yours that allows us to get to know you better as an individual. Under 300 words. can you give me advice and help cut down words
Growing up I was always an uncaring and irresponsible kid. Whatever I asked my parents for I received. I thought that I could have everything I wanted and it would never end; everything seemed so easy and reachable. Rarely in my life had I reflected on any memories from my childhood until now. At such young age didn't realize the gravity of what my parents were sacrificing to give to me and my brother. I became fully aware of my dad's biggest sacrifice the sacrifice he made for me and my brother when my father left my family in Mexico to come to America to send money for us in order to have a brighter future and a better life than he had. He worked 12 hour shifts and still managed to call at night to ask how my day was going and how I was. My father is a man I look up to but I also know my mother had to be a strong woman in order to be able to raise two young kids by herself. There was times when she faced away from my brother and I so we wouldn't see her cry when things weren't going well financially and she didn't know how to keep food in the table. Eventually things got better and my mother, my brother, and I joined my father in America. Everything that my parents have done is for my brother and I. Even now when my Dad gets home from a long work day and I see the dirt in his face and the redness of his eyes from the dust from the factory he works at. He tells me he has done everything for me, for I could have a better chance at life than him. I have grown up and no longer an uncaring irresponsible kid. I have inherited my parents drive to keep going and to keep moving forward when things get tough. Their sacrifices have made me who I am. They placed their trust in me to inherit their hopes and dreams. The sacrifices that my parents made for me will not be in vain, because one day I will make them proud as proud as I am of being their son by being the first in my family to go to college.