Seeking knowledge and commitment to service are integral parts of the Spelman experience. Discuss and illustrate ways you have shown your commitment in these areas
Ive learned that knowlege could be the key to break down berriers and it also defines strength and beauty in a woman. Inspired by my late aunt who was an english teacher, i decided to make my own path to independence at a young age. Even though she was very strict on me i understood she was showing me tough love and she knew i was capable of becoming successful. My parents were not able to finish high school,for my mother had me at an early age and my father had two other children before me. Unfortunately my elder siblings didn't pursue their education either. Observing their mistakes i am driven to take a different route. By the age of four i began to strengthen my reading and vocabulary,i was very fund of exploring chapter books and the encyclopedia for new words. Reading then became the best way for me to gain knowledge. My middle school awarded me for my commitment to reading and by the time i was a freshman in high school i felt i was ready for even bigger challanges. But like most teenagers i made bad choices before i noticed my surroundings and realizing that i was one suspension,bad referral,or detention away from becoming what i've been working so hard to avoid which was another statistic. My sophmore and junior years were difficult but i turned down temptation to be with my friends so i can do well in my classes. Because my heart was set on attending Spelman for the past eight years I knew failing my senior year wasn't an option. I was ecstatic entering my first year as a senior of Blanche Ely High but after a while reality started to hit me. Often times i have been asked what school do i attended followed by the question of how many children have? My response was always my school doesn't determine my lifestyle but my morals and dedication. I am one of many females who's predicted to be a teenage mother before i graduate from high school.Now that i am being tackled by many sceptics i am determined to become more than what i am predicted to be and inspire youths around me who are said to be destined for failure to do the same. My commitment to seek knowledge and service shows through the effort i put in my honors classes and the different organizations i have joined to help make a change in my community. I am dedicating my senior year to make up for the lack of hope in my previous high school years and to break the cycle that i am in with my peers and generations in my family. I wish to take my education to a level my parents and grandparents couldn't. I understand the process will be stressful but im sure the progress with be worth it.
Ive learned that knowlege could be the key to break down berriers and it also defines strength and beauty in a woman. Inspired by my late aunt who was an english teacher, i decided to make my own path to independence at a young age. Even though she was very strict on me i understood she was showing me tough love and she knew i was capable of becoming successful. My parents were not able to finish high school,for my mother had me at an early age and my father had two other children before me. Unfortunately my elder siblings didn't pursue their education either. Observing their mistakes i am driven to take a different route. By the age of four i began to strengthen my reading and vocabulary,i was very fund of exploring chapter books and the encyclopedia for new words. Reading then became the best way for me to gain knowledge. My middle school awarded me for my commitment to reading and by the time i was a freshman in high school i felt i was ready for even bigger challanges. But like most teenagers i made bad choices before i noticed my surroundings and realizing that i was one suspension,bad referral,or detention away from becoming what i've been working so hard to avoid which was another statistic. My sophmore and junior years were difficult but i turned down temptation to be with my friends so i can do well in my classes. Because my heart was set on attending Spelman for the past eight years I knew failing my senior year wasn't an option. I was ecstatic entering my first year as a senior of Blanche Ely High but after a while reality started to hit me. Often times i have been asked what school do i attended followed by the question of how many children have? My response was always my school doesn't determine my lifestyle but my morals and dedication. I am one of many females who's predicted to be a teenage mother before i graduate from high school.Now that i am being tackled by many sceptics i am determined to become more than what i am predicted to be and inspire youths around me who are said to be destined for failure to do the same. My commitment to seek knowledge and service shows through the effort i put in my honors classes and the different organizations i have joined to help make a change in my community. I am dedicating my senior year to make up for the lack of hope in my previous high school years and to break the cycle that i am in with my peers and generations in my family. I wish to take my education to a level my parents and grandparents couldn't. I understand the process will be stressful but im sure the progress with be worth it.
