Undergraduate / "She was a 7lb 11oz bundle of joy" - UT admission essay number 1 [25]

Write an essay in which you tell us about someone who has made an impact on your life and explain how and why this person is important to you.

Choose an issue of importance to you-the issue could be personal, school related, local, political, or international in scope-and write an essay in which you explain the significance of that issue to yourself, your family, your community, or your generation.

this is all i have so far.

All throughout receiving an education, there is one thing that I can fully recall; assemblies. They started when I was just a little tot and have not changed in anyway shape or form since (besides different presenters). The main purpose of a great portion of the assemblies was to inform children and adolescents about the side effects of drinking and driving, doing drugs, and/or having unprotected sex. For some students, the information retained might have made a small impact on their lives, but for most, it went through one ear and out the other, therefore having little or no effect.

This is a great issue of importance to me because I feel that low self-esteem has a much bigger impact on children and adolescents in this time period. With eating disorders, mental, physical and sexual abuse, bullying at school and neglect becoming more and more widespread, low self-esteem is on a rise. We mistakenly compare how we feel with how others behave. Inevitably, most others will behave more happily than we feel. So we conclude that no one else could feel as bad as we do. This creates a vicious circle and our self-esteem drops further, and no one ever acknowledges this. Music, I feel, is the voice of your heartbeat and the sound of your feelings. A person can relate to music in some way or another. Whether it is just everyday listening (while driving, shopping, reading, etc.), religion purposes or another type of reasoning, music is always there .When a person is feeling depressed, he or she can listen to a song that has a meaning of how they are feeling inside, or has a way of brightening them up and making them feel how they want to feel; happy and hopeful. Another instance would be if an individual is getting ready to go out for a night on the town, they will most likely listen to music that get's them in a "get-up-and-go" mood. Not something that is mellow. What do these subjects have to do with assemblies at school you ask?

Suffering from depression and being a victim of emotional abuse and abandonment, I have had my fair share of low self esteem matters. Music has always been a huge part of my life, well-being, and has been the one thing that has kept me relevantly sane. With music also being an enormous par t of today's society, I feel it should be incorporated in schools, not only in music courses or for entertainment use, but in assemblies as well. I feel if modern bands are brought to schools and play about self-esteem issues, then the students will actually listen and be affected. Low self esteem is usually the reason children and adolescents turn to drugs, alcohol and sex. But if we conquer the reasoning behind it in the first place, then the predicaments will most likely reduce and we will be closer to becoming a utopian society.

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