There may be personal information that you want considered as part of your admissions application. Write an essay describing that information. You might include exceptional hardships, challenges, or opportunities that have shaped or impacted your abilities or academic credentials, personal responsibilities, exceptional achievements or talents, educational goals, or ways in which you might contribute to an institution committed to creating a diverse learning environment.
Choices
There is a time in our life, when we realize that everything is about choices. We have the liberty of choosing how to live, how to reach, perhaps how to fall. I made the one who brought me here, and I could regret it, because it is been more difficult than I thought it could be, but I do not, because with time I learned to rise from the deepest hole, stronger, and wiser. My experience taught me that languages, economic resources, and lack of good education are not excuses, nor barriers. And if somebody asks, my answer is no, I am not stopping here.
Who would have known, that a letter would change my life forever? I received my appointment to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez to finish with the process of my U.S. Residency 1 Year ago; my mind was struggling to determine whether I was happy, or worried of the eminent destruction of my life. Most of my family was here, but in Mexico, I was just about to leave behind my plans, school, friends... my happiness. One day, my mind froze with the words of my mother - Is your choice -. After a couple of non-sleeping days, I realized that life is about sacrifices, and taking risks. One week after, I was on a road pointing straight forward to the United States of America.
Communication, I found how important it was when I wasn't able to perform it. My eyes became watery when I bought a t-shirt and I stood there trying to understand what "Do you have a quarter?" means. Those days were full of regret, my mind did not think of anything else but failure and impotence. What was I thinking when I believed that the education that I have always dreamed was possible? When I was seeing myself standing with pride wearing one of those gowns and holding a diploma in my hands? Until I understood how difficulties can turn into motivation along with the portals toward achievements.
Yes, I have always been limited. The economic resources of my family have never been plenty. In many ways that has been an obstacle, in others, it has been a fear, but also, it has been my force. Since I was going to go to College for free in Mexico, the high amount of money that the higher education costs took me by surprise. I admit that is one reason for which my dreams got torn in a certain moment. I discovered that my family cannot help me, even if they want too, but I realized, too, that papers with values are not going to stop me, they have not did it before, and they are not going to do it now. I am going to give every part of me to make my dreams a reality, what is the purpose of our life if not put everything into our desires to make them true? I know that effort pays back, and not necessarily with money.
I arrived to the conclusion, that blaming my school for the lack of good education that faces is worthless. It might be a disadvantage, but I see it as an opportunity to learn how to improve myself. I knew that it was not going to be easy to teach myself what my school could not, but I am, because there is something that I desire, and that is what pushes me to give my entire life in order to get it. I thank, at the end, this challenge, because it showed me that I should ask myself everyday: "Why should I stop learning, why should I limit myself"? I look forward to be able to answer the same, everyday: "I should not, and I will not".
I understand now, how everything is about choices. I chose to rise from the deepest holes, I chose, to sacrifice my entire life to make my dreams a reality, to learn a language with a shortage of time, to fight strong, to dream big. I learned to see lights through the shadows of the challenges. Since then, I promised me to see every one as a learning experience. And I promised me, that I would never stop, no matter how many times I fall, or how difficult is. I believe that this is nothing compared with what I want to accomplish, then I can tell, that if somebody asks, my answer is no, I am not stopping here.
THANK YOU ALL OF YOU
You make this community what it is, thank you
Choices
There is a time in our life, when we realize that everything is about choices. We have the liberty of choosing how to live, how to reach, perhaps how to fall. I made the one who brought me here, and I could regret it, because it is been more difficult than I thought it could be, but I do not, because with time I learned to rise from the deepest hole, stronger, and wiser. My experience taught me that languages, economic resources, and lack of good education are not excuses, nor barriers. And if somebody asks, my answer is no, I am not stopping here.
Who would have known, that a letter would change my life forever? I received my appointment to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez to finish with the process of my U.S. Residency 1 Year ago; my mind was struggling to determine whether I was happy, or worried of the eminent destruction of my life. Most of my family was here, but in Mexico, I was just about to leave behind my plans, school, friends... my happiness. One day, my mind froze with the words of my mother - Is your choice -. After a couple of non-sleeping days, I realized that life is about sacrifices, and taking risks. One week after, I was on a road pointing straight forward to the United States of America.
Communication, I found how important it was when I wasn't able to perform it. My eyes became watery when I bought a t-shirt and I stood there trying to understand what "Do you have a quarter?" means. Those days were full of regret, my mind did not think of anything else but failure and impotence. What was I thinking when I believed that the education that I have always dreamed was possible? When I was seeing myself standing with pride wearing one of those gowns and holding a diploma in my hands? Until I understood how difficulties can turn into motivation along with the portals toward achievements.
Yes, I have always been limited. The economic resources of my family have never been plenty. In many ways that has been an obstacle, in others, it has been a fear, but also, it has been my force. Since I was going to go to College for free in Mexico, the high amount of money that the higher education costs took me by surprise. I admit that is one reason for which my dreams got torn in a certain moment. I discovered that my family cannot help me, even if they want too, but I realized, too, that papers with values are not going to stop me, they have not did it before, and they are not going to do it now. I am going to give every part of me to make my dreams a reality, what is the purpose of our life if not put everything into our desires to make them true? I know that effort pays back, and not necessarily with money.
I arrived to the conclusion, that blaming my school for the lack of good education that faces is worthless. It might be a disadvantage, but I see it as an opportunity to learn how to improve myself. I knew that it was not going to be easy to teach myself what my school could not, but I am, because there is something that I desire, and that is what pushes me to give my entire life in order to get it. I thank, at the end, this challenge, because it showed me that I should ask myself everyday: "Why should I stop learning, why should I limit myself"? I look forward to be able to answer the same, everyday: "I should not, and I will not".
I understand now, how everything is about choices. I chose to rise from the deepest holes, I chose, to sacrifice my entire life to make my dreams a reality, to learn a language with a shortage of time, to fight strong, to dream big. I learned to see lights through the shadows of the challenges. Since then, I promised me to see every one as a learning experience. And I promised me, that I would never stop, no matter how many times I fall, or how difficult is. I believe that this is nothing compared with what I want to accomplish, then I can tell, that if somebody asks, my answer is no, I am not stopping here.
THANK YOU ALL OF YOU
You make this community what it is, thank you