Undergraduate / 'I live in Bangladesh' - Macalester Supplement...I think its a bit off-topic. [6]

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Because transcripts test scores and awards lists provide only a partial picture of an applicant, we want to know more! Please write an original essay to give us more than facts and figures about yourself. Feel free to focus on an experience, a philosophy or a significant event (or invent a topic of your own). Our hope is to get to know you better. How you help us do that is up to you!

"You can always achieve what you want, if you try a little harder," those were the words that echoed in my head as I watched my grandmother's grave silently. She used to tell me, that I can be whoever I wanted to be. Religion, status, culture, none of this mattered if only I knew where I wanted to belong.

I live in Bangladesh, a very small but a beautiful country. My father was abroad and this year has been tough for me. My mother got sick and became incapable of working. I had to leave my tutor due to a financial crisis. My whole life turned upside down. What am I supposed to do? I am 15 and it was just the beginning of my life. I had dreams, dreams to be a man. How was I supposed to do that without excelling in my education? As days passed, mother's condition got more serious. In the meantime I took a job at a call centre, the payment wasn't much, as I had few qualifications but it was enough to support myself and my mother. Whenever I needed to relax, I used to play cricket in my spare time. I used to throw the ball against the wall and on the rebound I would play a shot. One day I went to outside to play since my mom was sleeping and I didn't want to wake her up. I was playing against the wall in the park when a kid saw me and asked me to come and play with them. As I was batting, I saw a new light in the horizon. Suddenly I felt I was living my dream for a split second. I wanted to join the cricket school to become a cricketer after I graduated.

A little hope had risen in me. I would give my heart and soul to become a cricketer. But the question was how? I signed for an appointment with Mr.Raziyul Khan, renowned cricket coach of Bangladesh. I was asked to play a few shots in the net but I was rejected as the others were better than me. I started bugging the coach. I even invited him to the park to come and see me again. Still I was unable to get his attention. After months of trying I almost gave up. There wasn't a chance that he would pick me out of all those trained players. I guess my life would have been different if my grandmother was alive today. That's when it recalled the things she said to me, 'You can achieve anything, if u try a little harder.' Yes I did try, but maybe I dint try enough. I took my bat, went to a different field this time. The kids there took me in. Suddenly, I saw uplifted crowd had gathered while I was batting. Cheering and rooting for me. The people from the academy came out to see what was creating all the commotion. I was drowned in the liveliness. And I knew instantly that this is who I wanted to be. Maybe I dint get proper education but I had what it takes to be a true cricket player. When I was done batting, the crowd faded away, and a guy came up to me and said that I proved it and Mr. Raziyul Khan have asked me to see him. In less than a week, I signed a contract with him. I was in front of the doorstep to my dream. I'll do what it takes to be someone; someone special.

This was it; this is where my life began. I entered a whole new journey to become a man, and it was all because of my beloved grandmother.

Undergraduate / CMC essay ("Leadership is a constant theme and emphasis") [14]

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Leadership is a constant theme and emphasis at CMC. In fact, one of the ways we describe CMC students is "Leaders in the Making." Identify and discuss a person, fictional or nonfictional, who has helped shape culture and thought. You may select someone from any field: literature, the arts, science, politics, history, athletics, business, education, etc.

Allowing one's personal aspirations to fall victim to life's hardships may be a desirable solution, but it is also a costly sacrifice. It takes perseverance, drive and passion to rise above difficulties. Passion and desire are the very internal instincts that have brought me this far in life, and are the core characteristics that I rely on to carry me through my college life.

Over time, my academic success, my experience and enthusiasm at taking part in a variety of activities and my zeal of life has helped shape me into a self-disciplined, motivated and hopefully, a committed individual.

I am positive that my enrollment in the College of Wooster will add to the diversity of its student body and it will also help me enhance my academic and creative interests. My major academic interest is to study Development Economics (since I am from Bangladesh which is a developing country) and a very important inspiration is Prof. Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2006) who is also a Bangladeshi. His determination to explore opportunities to tackle the problem of poverty through the invention of micro-credit has inspired me immensely. It has made me realize that eradicating poverty is very much possible. Instead of telling people how to eradicate poverty, a more effective way would be to provide them the opportunity to bring out their entrepreneurial skills so that even the poorest of poor can work to bring about their own development.

The under-privileged and the destitute are not as pitiable charity cases as they have been condemned to be but they are thwarted entrepreneurs who just lack the means to improve their families' lives. This is a profoundly optimistic view of human nature. Prof. Yunus has inspired me to be a visionary and to try to translate those visions into practical actions which will benefit millions of people not only in Bangladesh but in other countries as well. Wooster will provide me the platform to gain higher education by which I can walk in the path, the foundations of which have been laid by Prof Yunus.