andy15
Sep 21, 2014
Scholarship / The pain and struggles in life is what develops a true experienced successful person!- Questbridge [5]
Yes you was right, it had tons of mistakes and confusions. I try to redo the essay and hopefully is way better but I need your opinion on it. Thank You!
"When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful", is a quote once said by an inspiring Eric Thomas. This is the quote that I always go back to when I need the extra push in life to not give up. I grew up in Bronx, New York; where I never felt safe once I stepped out my house, never knew if I would make it back home without wounds. I could recall nights where I would be sleeping till I get woken up by a common sound that terrifies human ears- click clack BANG, BANG, BANG. There is a police precinct one street down but the violence was too strong with most of it happening in the corner of the block I am currently living. Numerous of peers in my community died by stray bullets during shootouts. I can recall how I dodged a shootout by literally a couple of minutes in winter of 2013. After working out, I headed home walking at a rapid pace past a notorious park in order to get to my home. Once I entered home and dropped my bags to get ready to eat, a shootout went on between rival gangs. It terrified me and my family as I was lucky to have missed it by a couple minutes. My mom does not stop crying wishing to move to a better area but cannot due to financial hardships. It destroys my soul to see her devastated through the windows of my eyes.
A challenge that has impacted my life that I would never forget besides street violence and economic hardship happened in eighth grade. I was bullied verbally and physically because of my financial status and being overweight. I never reported it to authority due to being afraid of threats. Mom asked me, "what's wrong Andy?" and I would reply saying nothing just sick to avoid more conflict in her life. I did not attend school for a month resulting in depression, anxiety, and not being able to think with clarity. Depression caught up to me so much that I never sat to think the reason to bully me was ignorant. I attended two other schools the same school year. Moving out of state to live in Massachusetts with my aunt just made things worse as I was exposed to violence within the house. My grades dropped significantly but I graduated middle school and came back to New York.
Despite my challenges I am determined to complete my goals. I entered the school year serious and made sure nothing was going to stop my ambition to be successful. I will serve as an example to my family that is not impossible to attend a great college with the proper dedication. Once I entered high school I was determined to change my thinking and who I am to prevent the past experiences occurring again. My major will be Biology then grad school for physical therapy or bachelors in Bio-medical Engineering. These goals were developed when I started studying human physiology online and became fascinated with the human body. I want to challenge myself by going down the biological field path in college. I am open minded about college, hoping to take as much advantage as I can of any opportunity I can access in a diverse community.
"Our duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible", was said by Swami Vivekananda. The art of altruism is something I highly honor. I am not being raised in America to reap just the opportunities; I am here to create opportunities for America. My goal is to try helping out the community I was raised by to provide educational experiences that would be motivating to try keeping more students out the street. A single student not in the street is one less tragic, one less statistic. I would like to contribute to a better education foundation to my local library which helped significantly in my childhood even developing relationships with staffs that would help me from homework to getting my family tickets for a baseball game. I am hoping to also create a fitness organization within my college campus where the participants would be able to get fit in an enjoyable way while giving an educational experience teaching about human body physiology. I want to create a more diverse and successful community. From my experiences, setbacks, and challenges, I learned three important facts which is the code I live by Motivation, Ambition, and Dedication. In Conclusion, I do not regret any challenge in my life because they made me today to be the future of tomorrow.
Yes you was right, it had tons of mistakes and confusions. I try to redo the essay and hopefully is way better but I need your opinion on it. Thank You!
"When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful", is a quote once said by an inspiring Eric Thomas. This is the quote that I always go back to when I need the extra push in life to not give up. I grew up in Bronx, New York; where I never felt safe once I stepped out my house, never knew if I would make it back home without wounds. I could recall nights where I would be sleeping till I get woken up by a common sound that terrifies human ears- click clack BANG, BANG, BANG. There is a police precinct one street down but the violence was too strong with most of it happening in the corner of the block I am currently living. Numerous of peers in my community died by stray bullets during shootouts. I can recall how I dodged a shootout by literally a couple of minutes in winter of 2013. After working out, I headed home walking at a rapid pace past a notorious park in order to get to my home. Once I entered home and dropped my bags to get ready to eat, a shootout went on between rival gangs. It terrified me and my family as I was lucky to have missed it by a couple minutes. My mom does not stop crying wishing to move to a better area but cannot due to financial hardships. It destroys my soul to see her devastated through the windows of my eyes.
A challenge that has impacted my life that I would never forget besides street violence and economic hardship happened in eighth grade. I was bullied verbally and physically because of my financial status and being overweight. I never reported it to authority due to being afraid of threats. Mom asked me, "what's wrong Andy?" and I would reply saying nothing just sick to avoid more conflict in her life. I did not attend school for a month resulting in depression, anxiety, and not being able to think with clarity. Depression caught up to me so much that I never sat to think the reason to bully me was ignorant. I attended two other schools the same school year. Moving out of state to live in Massachusetts with my aunt just made things worse as I was exposed to violence within the house. My grades dropped significantly but I graduated middle school and came back to New York.
Despite my challenges I am determined to complete my goals. I entered the school year serious and made sure nothing was going to stop my ambition to be successful. I will serve as an example to my family that is not impossible to attend a great college with the proper dedication. Once I entered high school I was determined to change my thinking and who I am to prevent the past experiences occurring again. My major will be Biology then grad school for physical therapy or bachelors in Bio-medical Engineering. These goals were developed when I started studying human physiology online and became fascinated with the human body. I want to challenge myself by going down the biological field path in college. I am open minded about college, hoping to take as much advantage as I can of any opportunity I can access in a diverse community.
"Our duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible", was said by Swami Vivekananda. The art of altruism is something I highly honor. I am not being raised in America to reap just the opportunities; I am here to create opportunities for America. My goal is to try helping out the community I was raised by to provide educational experiences that would be motivating to try keeping more students out the street. A single student not in the street is one less tragic, one less statistic. I would like to contribute to a better education foundation to my local library which helped significantly in my childhood even developing relationships with staffs that would help me from homework to getting my family tickets for a baseball game. I am hoping to also create a fitness organization within my college campus where the participants would be able to get fit in an enjoyable way while giving an educational experience teaching about human body physiology. I want to create a more diverse and successful community. From my experiences, setbacks, and challenges, I learned three important facts which is the code I live by Motivation, Ambition, and Dedication. In Conclusion, I do not regret any challenge in my life because they made me today to be the future of tomorrow.
