College Admissions Essay: Overcoming Obstacles In Life

Throughout our lives, we make choices and decisions that change our lives and others in positive and/or negative ways. It is these decisions that determine how we will be remembered, our legacy. When I graduate high school, I want to be remembered by the qualities that define me as a person and the good I’ve done for others. Throughout the years, I’ve been often been described by my family and friends as bold, confident, outgoing, and hardworking. Not only are these characteristics important to me, but they are important to my family, as they want to leave a legacy in the name of our family. The qualities I have exhibited are the same qualities past family members have shown and are remembered for. Through always putting out my best effort when it comes to work and school, I have shown my dedication and discipline. Through doing what I can to help others, I have displayed my commitment to world peace, the betterment of the world as a whole, and the yearning to make a difference in someone’s life other than my

Currently, as a recent graduate from the University of West Georgia I am working close with autistic adult’s where I help and monitor their behavior. Working for a company called Gentility I’ve found myself so in love with what I do. Helping another individual learn and make every day decisions no matter the circumstances really made me realize the value of opportunity and seizing that moment while in it. After graduating I had a lot of time on my hands, and job searching has not been the easiest task. And in my opinion, it’s definitely a job within itself and I’ve really had to grasp the definition of patience. Overall although college landed me some of the most difficult times in my life, it also held the most prized and best times of my

My father always said, "learn to walk before you jump" and for years that's what I've tried to do. But what's the point if all you keep doing is tripping along on the road of your future. All I've ever known is hard work and plenty of failures. However, without failure, there wouldn't be a success. Even in grade school, I knew I couldn't make it. Yet, somehow by some miracle, I'm still kicking it to make it through.

my application would be incomplete without my background not due to its bleak moments but because of its triumphant conclusion. i believe it shows my initiative, tenacity, and determination to succeed even in the face of tremendous adversity. High school began during a dismal period of my life. I suffered from depression due to a combination of bullying and my father's alcoholism and abandonment of my family. i was anxious yet excited about starting highschool,i knew it could be an opportunity to improve the family and social problems that plagued me. I knew that to overcome my shortcomings i would have to devout all of my time and effort into bettering myself. My self improvement began with me starting a counseling program for the children

I lead my life according to the belief that, success is a measure of our perceived reality. In many socially oppressed communities, barriers to living a whole, productive, successful life is beyond the grasp of many. I represent a historically underrepresented population with an educational disadvantage. Firsthand, I have overcome economic, social, and health obstacles to achieve status of an undergraduate degree. Overcoming adversity unifies my experience as an ideal candidate to give a voice to socially oppressed populations in need of health and well-being opportunities. I desire to effect change on a larger scale than previous experience has allowed and to give socially oppressed communities opportunities to perceive their reality with new success.

Everyday people struggle with various hurdles, how they jump over them is a different story. Like many other young preteens in the world I also had hurdles to learn how to jump over. Learning how to handle even the shortest hurdle was a struggle, the feeling of my emotions going up and down and just everywhere was more than overwhelming. As hard of the obstacle was I did learn how to understand and handle even the tallest hurdle in my life. When I was about fourteen, I found out my grandma had breast cancer. At that time, I didn’t necessarily know what that meant or what was going to happen. I was confused at first and then the symptoms started to creep up on her. The first thing I noticed was my grandma losing hair being so young and figuring

“She’s pregnant!? Are you oblivious? Your life is over… Do you not realize what is going to happen? You MUST drop out and work to feed your family from now on! I thought you were smarter than this.” This type of verbal abuse continued in my brother-in-law’s family, but as buoyant as both my sister, and her boyfriend were at age 17, this only fed fuel to their fire for triumph. In this day of age, many unplanned pregnancies throughout young adults have discouraged their higher hopes and dreams. Many use the excuse “reality knocked me off my feet” or “things happen for a reason”. Who gave you this excuse…? Are you not the artist of your own reality? You can perhaps lash back at me with a higher power as the answer. Well, I am here to prove to

I believe in searching for new perspectives. Time is incessant, and each day provides the opportunity for a fresh experience. I fear an unstoppable routine, knowing the world could offer me more than what is in my vicinity. With a constant restraint for viewing only what is in my reach, it is impossible to become the person I am destined to be.

I don't want to finish this book. The harder school gets for him the harder it gets to read. I can't stand him being lonely I remember the feeling. there was that this time in my life when I was incredibly lonely and sad. I just keep reliving it through him and it just makes my heart heavy. When I first laid eyes on you I didn't really have a lot of thoughts. All I remember was thinking you must be in your twenties that is until justin told me you were a freshman then The subject turned to something else. You really didn't talk much. I understand why you wouldn’t want to get attached. To people and I may be jumping around a bit because I doubt the first time you looked at me you gave me a second glance I was in band uniform for god sakes. I just mean in general I feel like now you are attached to me and I you. I do think there are still things in our relationship that we haven't experienced yet. I'm not meaning getting married or an of that I mean we haven't even had a fight yet. Maybe we wount. I argue about everything I'm surprised that we don't fight. I feel like I

The ways that time have changed from when punk was at its prime, as my group and I were partying and getting wasted, squatting in whatever rotted, half-demolished, abandoned building we could seek. Obnoxiously we disregarded every single matter or consequence at the point of time, we thought we owned the place. Recklessly striding around streets tormenting everything and everyone that got in our way, sticking up two straight fingers to society. This was our life and we did whatever we wanted. Authorities despised us, never the less we undoubtly knew the police were intimidated

"I have always Imagined Life as a useless bag of possibilities; no matter which one I chose I already knew who I was and who I was going to be. Out of all those paths and choices I could always see greatness. Even if it meant the spotlight will not shine on me.

This is not simply an autobiography. This is a narrative centralized around my yesterdays and the effects the choices of my past have had on my todays and tomorrows. This is a literary progression encompassing the results of fifteen years of life, and a celebration of the possible outcomes of many more to come. This is a tale of failure and the immense growth that resulted in recuperation. This is my story, how I learned to carve my own path, to not be simplistic, to withstand conforming to the binding standards of society, and to be the definition of excellence. This is an account of my life, so far as I can recall it.

​Within my lifetime, I have encountered obstacles that have shaped me as a person today. For example, when I turned 16, I wanted to get a job to support my mother. I filled out many applications; however, I kept getting rejected. I began to get discouraged after a couple of months, but I didn't want to give up easily. I applied to a couple more grocery stores and once again, I got denied. One Saturday morning in May, my mother and I decided to go to Tysons Corner Mall to search for more jobs. I remained optimistic because I was determined to leave the mall with hopes of getting a job. After a couple of weeks, I got a call from Justice and the manager was interested in me and wanted to schedule an interview. I was very excited and I wasn't going

I must have become intoxicated with my first flirtations with independence and rebellion. Without fail, the mere taste of a formidable challenge will relentlessly enchant me, as if it were a novel concept.

Understand that life is not a straight line. Life is not a set timeline of milestones. It is okay if you don’t finish school, get married, find a job that supports you, have a family, make money, and live comfortably all by this age, or that age. It’s okay if you do, as long as you understand that if you’re not married by 25, or a Vice President by 30 — or even happy, for that matter — the world isn’t going to condemn you. You are allowed to backtrack. You are allowed to figure out what inspires you. You are allowed time, and I think we often forget that. We choose a program right out of high school because the proper thing to do is to go straight to University. We choose a job right out of University, even if we didn’t love our program, because we just invested time into it. We go to that job every morning because we feel the need to support ourselves abundantly. We take the next step, and the next step, and the next step, thinking that we are fulfilling some checklist for life, and one day we wake up depressed. We wake up stressed out. We feel pressured and don’t know why. That is how you ruin your life.