Undergraduate / UF ESSAY: "meaningful event" - Upward Bound [3]

Describe a meaningful event, experience or accomplishment in your life and how it will affect your college experience or your contribution to the UF campus community. You may want to reflect on your family, your school or community activities, or your involvement in areas outside of school.

Eleanor Roosevelt once said "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the things which you think you cannot do." On June 9, 2005 at the end of my eight grade School year, I found out that my mother had enrolled me an a Upward Bound Math, and Science Program for the upcoming summer, and not my twin brother. One might think that this isn't such a big deal but at that age my brother and I were very close to each other, and we did everything together. Now I had to go to this program where I didn't know anyone, and without my brother to back me up.

During this phase of my life I was unsociable, very quiet, and my confidence to talk to someone new, was dismal. Meanwhile my brother was the total opposite, he was outgoing, very sociable, and supremely confident. I feel now that my confidence levels are strong but still getting stronger with every experience that I do and accomplish in my life. For instance numerous people considered I wouldn't be able to achieve an internship that Upward Bound Program was offering at the University of Miami Medical Campus, with all these negative predictions I started to think the same way. However I still tried and to my amazement I succeeded. The internship involved working with the I.T. crew and at the same time learning from them. With this accomplishment my confidence was given a major boost, it showed me that I could achieve and conquer any task given to me even if other people don't have confidence in me, to always have confidence in myself..

This meaningful event also helped me build and strengthen my courage. During the program I did many things that I wouldn't picture myself ever doing. The UB staff would take us on field trips; one of those trips was at John Pennykamp Coral reef State Park. During the trip we were put on a boat and taken to the middle of the Florida Keys where we were able to take the plunge inside, and snorkel with the numerous species of the sea including the treacherous Barracudas, Sharks, and Stingrays.

Upward Bound also helped me to enhance my strengths by helping me to acknowledge my weaknesses. I never thought of myself as an academic oriented person but through the guidance of my mentors, and UB peers I discovered that my insecurities were hindering my innate intellectual entrance. Through their support my mentors and peers by showing me that education can be fun and introducing me to topics that I felt strongly about.

Upward Bound helped me grasp the ideals represented in Roosevelt's quotation. Now I am a confident individual who will take advantage of every opportunity, I am an intellectual who will challenge himself academically and I hope to utilize these attributes in furthering the social and academic brilliance of the University of Florida.

Undergraduate / Vires is the one that stands out the most; FSU Esssay [NEW]

"All of these values are easily reflected in my life, but I feel that that Vires is the one that stands out the most. I seem to have picked up all these strengths from my mother, from all the things that I have watched her do and accomplish. Although (Remove comma) I grew up in a dreadful neighborhood where it seemed that most of the people that lived there were making bad decisions, my mother has always educated me to never do wrong and always chose to do right no matter what the result. I also learned from her physical strength that she used to care for my brother, by working long hours so we can have the best education and clothes possible, and her fight against her brain aneurism. I also gained her intellectual strengths to never give up and always gain as much knowledge as possible. In existence my moral strength, intellectual strength, and physical strength are frequently tested, even when I reach adulthood. High school is where I felt every one of the values embodied in Vires applied to me most. High school served as the stage for which I learned how to build up and polish all of the strengths and characteristics that have made me who I am today. My morals were tested when a close friend of mine asked me to skip school and go to the movies; I started to analyze the situation and considered all the consequences associated with my absence from school, all the class assignments that I could be missing, and being behind on a lesson. Then I made the logical decision and decided not to go and that my education was more important. In addition, my intellectual strength was tested in English 3 of my junior year. I had a big test coming up but I did not quite understand the lesson very well, so I spent numerous hours studying. The next day when I sat down in my desk with the test positioned in front of me and I flipped through the 5 pages, and it was like I had a cheat sheet in my head; I knew all the answers! The test was later given back out and I turned over my packet and their it was, a red "A+". My physical strength was tested by me conquering my injures and by committing to my 3 hour basketball training so I can fulfill one of my many goals to become a walk on for the Florida State Seminoles.

Many people have told me I will not be able to do it, but like Michael Jordan once said "I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying." These values embodied in Vires will make me a grand addition to the Florida State University campus. My honed skills of these values for doing the right thing and making the right decisions, my determination to study more if I do not understand a lesson, and my commitment to training to perfect my skills."

Undergraduate / How should i describe how this value is reflected in my life - admission FL [3]

For almost one hundred years, the Latin words, "Vires, Artes, Mores" have been the guiding philosophy behind Florida State University. Vires signifies strength of all kinds - moral, physical, and intellectual; Artes alludes to the beauty of intellectual pursuits as exemplified in skill, craft, or art; and Mores refers to character, custom, or tradition. Describe how one or more of the values embodied in these concepts are reflected in your life.

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In existence your moral strength is frequently being tested. High School is where I felt my moral was tested everyday, and because of this I have learned how to build up and polish my moral strength. Through High School