brownmamba18
Nov 17, 2015
Undergraduate / Hopefully, I'll be able to become successful in computer science. UC Personal Statement #2: MY WORLD [5]
Describe the world you come from - for example, your family, community or school - and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.
My family owns eleven liquor stores. My parents have been working at these stores almost every day for seventeen years. My dad leaves at three PM and comes home at one AM; my mom works at night after taking care of me and my three siblings all day. Drop us off and pick us up at school, take us to Taekwondo, pick us up usually after nine PM from there, day after day after day. I hate it. I hate not having my parents sitting at the dinner table with my family. I hate people judging my parents just because they own liquor stores and don't work in some more advanced industry like medicine. They've had to sacrifice so much leisure time that they could've spent with us in order to provide a better future for me, and I will forever be grateful to them. I hope to pay them back one day for all they did for me and my siblings because it's not often that liquor store owners can send their four kids to a private school.
I hope to pursue a job in the computer science industry, which is ironic in a way because my mom doesn't know how to use a computer much at all. I want to use my passion for computer science to, like my parents say, do what they didn't how to do to. I don't want their hard work to go to waste by me having to work in the family business. Hopefully, I'll be able to become successful enough that my parents can afford to stop working and finally relax after seventeen years of loading and unloading inventory, working the cash register, and driving between three cities almost daily. Then, my parents can finally relax and type one finger at a time all they want.
My essay can only be this long since my second UC essay is about 660-670 words. I don't especially like this essay but I would like some opinions on it before I consider scraping it. I really struggled finding a topic for this essay, so admittedly what I wrote about is trite.
Describe the world you come from - for example, your family, community or school - and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.
My family owns eleven liquor stores. My parents have been working at these stores almost every day for seventeen years. My dad leaves at three PM and comes home at one AM; my mom works at night after taking care of me and my three siblings all day. Drop us off and pick us up at school, take us to Taekwondo, pick us up usually after nine PM from there, day after day after day. I hate it. I hate not having my parents sitting at the dinner table with my family. I hate people judging my parents just because they own liquor stores and don't work in some more advanced industry like medicine. They've had to sacrifice so much leisure time that they could've spent with us in order to provide a better future for me, and I will forever be grateful to them. I hope to pay them back one day for all they did for me and my siblings because it's not often that liquor store owners can send their four kids to a private school.
I hope to pursue a job in the computer science industry, which is ironic in a way because my mom doesn't know how to use a computer much at all. I want to use my passion for computer science to, like my parents say, do what they didn't how to do to. I don't want their hard work to go to waste by me having to work in the family business. Hopefully, I'll be able to become successful enough that my parents can afford to stop working and finally relax after seventeen years of loading and unloading inventory, working the cash register, and driving between three cities almost daily. Then, my parents can finally relax and type one finger at a time all they want.
My essay can only be this long since my second UC essay is about 660-670 words. I don't especially like this essay but I would like some opinions on it before I consider scraping it. I really struggled finding a topic for this essay, so admittedly what I wrote about is trite.