Undergraduate / "SET" - COMMON APP - 498 words. [6]

COMMON APPLICATION ESSAY : Option 1 .. Evaluate a significant experiance ...

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"SET"
I had learnt my enter life in the blue classrooms surrounding the courtyard; I had grown up playing 'Langdi' near the dirty pond. I had the same friends since childhood, when used to run into the courtyard as soon as the recess bell rang. My teachers knew me; They praised my achievements and excused my shortcomings. In my mind, I was set!

So is that it? My instinct told me, "Noway! Something is missing. Life ain't about being "set"." The idea of making my OWN mark, and of paving my own road was alluring. As an Indian student, adventure ran in my veins; So I decided to move to a more credible institution after class 7.

"Change costs." My first term was X. Who wants to join an acne-clad mundane boy for lunch? At school, five people wished me on my thirteenth birthday. I regretted moving. However, the adrenaline never stopped. I read about how a socially awkward college drop-out changed the computer industry, about how a newspaper boy became the president. My parents and teachers remained my backbone. My "" evolved me.

Starting with a few answers in a class, I went on to launch the Math and Science club and eventually led the school's student body. The five people gre to fifty. I learned to face difficulties and overcome them. Ever since, I have thrived to make the most out of the opportunities I am presented, and even the ones I am not. As an engineering aspirant, I am on my way to beat the ten lac competitors and ace the competitive tests. Single digit state ranks are a start.

Today, my own achievements and failures, decisions and character matter much more to me than what I have been bestowed upon. I could never have dreamt of such an evolution in those blue classrooms.

I am still not "set"! Certainly college will pose as a fiercer challenge, but I will face it head-on and exceed expectations. Through my unrelenting passion and persistence, I will give the world a story to remember.

Undergraduate / "Insight" - common app short ans. (Intl student) [4]

"An Insight"

Many might find working, over the summer, as an computer instructor at an asylum mundane. However the time I spent at Arpan - A school for mentally challenged children couldn't have been better spent.

No student at Arpan was mentally inferior. On careful observation, for example, each one displayed his unique approach towards typing A through Z but just wouldn't accept the conventional. They would try to find patterns; "Why are U and I together", they'd ask. I learned the importance of vision, and the human tendency to ignore the "Obvious!". On typing the wrong character, they went all the way back and started again. I learned perseverance and perfection. Even if I fired them for mistakes, they smiled back. I felt guilty for ever cursing my teachers over course-load. I learned as much as anyone in the class, including proficiently operating a ball mouse by moving the ball itself! Apart from teaching my favorite subject, I also got an insight into a marvelous little world.

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