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Oct 14, 2017
Scholarship / Horatio Alger Scholarship - Adversity Essay? Does this answer the Prompt concisely? [4]
Describe the impact your adversities have had on your life and development as a young adult.
This appalling tragedy may seem rather insignificant to some, but the sight of smoke pouring out of my family's steaming, double-decker, caramelized oven door told me that my days of eating perfectly browned chicken wings-were over. Gone were the Chinese sweetcakes my mom used to make with what ingredients she could scrape together. Gone too was the steaming turkey I would have had for Thanksgiving.
Though we later turned to the slow-cooker and microwave, mishaps like these are common. But, what my family lacks in resources, we have in resourcefulness. Last summer, my mother was laid off from a company she had been working at for more than a decade. Though she was emotionally affected, our family went on high-alert. We applied for aid and a few months later, helped her secure another job. Meanwhile, my grandparents' poor health and my father's medical condition further drew some of our resources away to take care of medical expenses. Rather than complain, I accepted the fact as is and made do with what I had. So what if we ran out of trash can liners? I used supermarket bags.
As adverse as life gets, I've decided that rather than allow my experiences to make or break me, I need to constantly look forward and cultivate faith, courage, and resilience. Only by arming myself with these qualities and looking for learning opportunities in every difficult situation, can I finally overcome adversity.
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This essay was 250/250 words.
Describe the impact your adversities have had on your life and development as a young adult.
My oven broke down last week. And we couldn't get it fixed.
This appalling tragedy may seem rather insignificant to some, but the sight of smoke pouring out of my family's steaming, double-decker, caramelized oven door told me that my days of eating perfectly browned chicken wings-were over. Gone were the Chinese sweetcakes my mom used to make with what ingredients she could scrape together. Gone too was the steaming turkey I would have had for Thanksgiving.
Though we later turned to the slow-cooker and microwave, mishaps like these are common. But, what my family lacks in resources, we have in resourcefulness. Last summer, my mother was laid off from a company she had been working at for more than a decade. Though she was emotionally affected, our family went on high-alert. We applied for aid and a few months later, helped her secure another job. Meanwhile, my grandparents' poor health and my father's medical condition further drew some of our resources away to take care of medical expenses. Rather than complain, I accepted the fact as is and made do with what I had. So what if we ran out of trash can liners? I used supermarket bags.
As adverse as life gets, I've decided that rather than allow my experiences to make or break me, I need to constantly look forward and cultivate faith, courage, and resilience. Only by arming myself with these qualities and looking for learning opportunities in every difficult situation, can I finally overcome adversity.
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This essay was 250/250 words.
