lukewarm12
Sep 18, 2015
Undergraduate / UW Madison Application. My parents' divorce. Let me know what could use improving or corrections. [3]
Prompt: Consider something in your life you think goes unnoticed and write about why it's important to you.
It was the first Friday in April of my fourth grade year. It was 1:50 in the afternoon when my teacher gave me a note sent from the office. It said that my mother was waiting to pick me up outside and I was to go right away, so I packed my things and went to the front of school. I got there and I saw my two brothers sitting under a tree with my mother, I walked over and took a seat on the cool ground. My mother began telling us how she and my father were going to separate and no longer live together. This was the most important event in my life that goes unnoticed. I was at the age of nine when my parents got divorced, at that age I really didn't know what was happening or what it meant, but eventually I learned that my childhood would change drastically. The divorce had more of an impact on my younger and older brothers than on me since I was oblivious to what was going on around me. This caused both of my brothers to follow the way I had dealt with the situation, so I was volunteered as the role model. This caused me to cut my childhood short and mature much faster as I had to learn how to take better care of my brothers and myself. This not only affected me at home but also at school, since my parents' divorce was unnoticed by my peers and the majority of my peers had not gone through what I had. Since I matured faster than my peers I did not act nor think like them. At times I felt as if I was a social outcast since I did not understand childish acts that would be normal for my peers to commit at their maturity level. This was very important to me because as school went on and my peers matured I stared to fit in with more of my peers. The more I fit in the more I realized that my peers did not judge based on my parents being divorced. This caused me to slowly forget about my parents' divorce as it seemed to be just another subconscious part of my life that I learned to live with.
Prompt: Consider something in your life you think goes unnoticed and write about why it's important to you.
It was the first Friday in April of my fourth grade year. It was 1:50 in the afternoon when my teacher gave me a note sent from the office. It said that my mother was waiting to pick me up outside and I was to go right away, so I packed my things and went to the front of school. I got there and I saw my two brothers sitting under a tree with my mother, I walked over and took a seat on the cool ground. My mother began telling us how she and my father were going to separate and no longer live together. This was the most important event in my life that goes unnoticed. I was at the age of nine when my parents got divorced, at that age I really didn't know what was happening or what it meant, but eventually I learned that my childhood would change drastically. The divorce had more of an impact on my younger and older brothers than on me since I was oblivious to what was going on around me. This caused both of my brothers to follow the way I had dealt with the situation, so I was volunteered as the role model. This caused me to cut my childhood short and mature much faster as I had to learn how to take better care of my brothers and myself. This not only affected me at home but also at school, since my parents' divorce was unnoticed by my peers and the majority of my peers had not gone through what I had. Since I matured faster than my peers I did not act nor think like them. At times I felt as if I was a social outcast since I did not understand childish acts that would be normal for my peers to commit at their maturity level. This was very important to me because as school went on and my peers matured I stared to fit in with more of my peers. The more I fit in the more I realized that my peers did not judge based on my parents being divorced. This caused me to slowly forget about my parents' divorce as it seemed to be just another subconscious part of my life that I learned to live with.
