Undergraduate / "maybe basketball wasn't for me" - MIT Challenge/Adversity Essay [3]

AS A(correction) highlight of my life, running has not only been the foundation of my strongest relationships with my closest friends, but also a significant influence on how I live.

what singnificant influence? more clarity needed

Undergraduate / "The clock ticks" - MIT Personality Essay, thoughts, suggestions [5]

pushed or pressured- find a better word for 'pressured'- i think it is an incorrect word, i know of pressurized

Undergraduate / "My father: my friend and advisor" - a person who had a significant influence on you [5]

compare with the original and you will recognize the corrections. maybe you should explain the words that i have put in double quotes.

Lastly, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't my father's support and unconditinal love. Instead, I would have been "a big frog in a little pond". Before I came to lekki british international High school, I used think that I was better than everyone else, but when I got to lekki British, life changed for me. My father told me: not everyone will like me; there will always be people out there waiting for your failure to come or waiting for you to fail- And in truth there were people there who did not like me, but because of the words my father said to me, I was ready to face the world and stand up for myself. However, when I almost began to think that I was the best again, my father was the one who lead me to a "larger stream". If it wasn't him, I would have been a just a big frog full of self-conceit. Thanks to him, I'm now attending this terrific high school, competing with other students.