Prompt: TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY “Describe a circumstance, obstacle or conflict in your life, and the skills and resources you used to resolve it. Did it change you? If so, how?” His Name was Rob Though I have faced many obstacles, or at least what I consider to be obstacles, there is one specific instance that comes to mind when I reflect upon this prompt. It was not so much an obstacle as a guy, and his name was Rob. I know what you are thinking. Here is another teenage girl about to blather on about her “boy problems.” If you knew me, you would know right off the bat that this is not the case, and if you are willing...give me a chance. I will relay to you a personal explanation for the quizzical statement above. Then, and only then, can you draw your own conclusions. In the summer of my sophomore year, one of my mom’s childhood friends came to visit us. For the sake of anonymity, she shall henceforth be referred to as Jane Doe. Jane was unhappy with her marriage, and after several years of unhappiness decided to leave her husband. Her husband, or ex-husband shall I say, was named Rob and is the same man as aforementioned. Nothing was so terrible in their relationship that, in my opinion, it could not be fixed. However, it never has been nor ever will be my place to judge them or their actions. Months passed and Jane became a closer member of our family. She finally (over a period of several months) came to the decision that she would stay with us on the large plot of land our family shares. We were overjoyed at this news, and above all else we were happy that she was happy. Then one day a letter arrived for Jane. It was from Rob, her now ex-husband. It came so swiftly and without warning that I do not feel it is unjust to compare it to a falling star, yet unlike a falling star its arrival was not anticipated with wishes and excitement. The letter, to the best of my memory, said something along the lines of this, “I have cancer. It seems I couldn’t live with me either.” Although the card was set up to portray such utterly heart wrenching news comically, I am not ashamed to admit that just by thinking back to this time, tears pool in my eyes. In a manner of a few weeks, Jane was packed to head back to Rob.
Describe the most challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to overcome this challenge. How has this challenge affected your academic achievement?
Describe the most significant challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to overcome this challenge. How did this challenge affected your academic achievements?
1) Describe the most significant challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to overcome this challenge. How has this challenge affected your academic achievement?
Jane, a fourteen-year-old Canadian citizen, lives with her father, John, in Quebec during the school year and with her mother, Anne, in New York on school breaks and holidays. Jane decided to go to California to live with her uncle, Billy as she claimed to be having some difficulty with her parents. Since Jane left her parents a message explaining her plans then directly left for the airport, her mother went after her. However, her mother was killed in an automobile accident on the way. At this time Jane does not want to return to Canada to live with her father John, as she claims that he has physically abused he and with his employment with
Describe the most significant challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to overcome this challenge. How has this challenge affected your academic achievement?
Describe how you have taken advantage of a significant educational opportunity or worked to overcome and educational barrier you have faced.
Every little mistake and success story in my high school years qualify as a factor to my personal change but by far the biggest experiences were definitely my efforts of maintaining a good GPA and the participation in the National Honor Society. Trying to achieve and keep up with my GPA was harder than it appeared but due to all the effort I can anticipate that whatever the future has in store for me I will be ready to endure. Not only was the experience of my GPA life-changing but it was also the door to bigger opportunities, one being the National Honor Society. Although I doubted myself almost every step of the way I can truthfully say the experience was transformative in the sense that it taught me morals I will cherish throughout the rest of my journey.
Describe a circumstance, obstacle or conflict in your life, and the skills and resources you used to resolve it. Did it change you? If so, how?
If there has been some obstacle or bump in the road in your academic or personal life, please explain the circumstances.
Describe the most significant challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to overcome this challenge. How has this challenge affected your academic achievement?
Describe a circumstance, obstacle or conflict in your life, and the skills and resources you used to resolve it. Did it change you? If so, how?
During my adolescent years, I felt like I never had a voice, so I would quietly stand on the side while I watched others be someone I could not be. It began in childhood where I didn't have many chances to be vocal. I was surrounded by people who overpowered my voice. For example, my father didn't like anybody being opinionated around him. Personally, I believed my father didn't want any woman to have a voice. My dad was born in Haiti, so I just assumed this was how all Haitian fathers behaved because of the Haitian culture. It wasn't until I compared him to my friends' fathers who were nice, kind, and very respectful with their daughters. I thought it was common for a father to be aggressive, verbally abusive, and intimidating. When I look
In life everyone will face some form of hardship. Some people may not go through as many hardships as some others might but we all still have our own personal problems. In my life I have not faced many hardships like some others have which I am very grateful for such things not happening to me. But even though I haven't gone through many hardships I have still had my own fair share of personal hardships. One such hardship I have gone through twice is overcoming the death of a loved one.
I was born in the town called ‘Gang-Seo’ which is the western side of the river that passes through the capital of South Korea. I used to hang around with my friends at the small park that is located on the back side of the old white apartment complex where I lived. When I turned six years old, my family moved into the town called ‘Gang-Nam’ is the southern side of the river. The atmosphere was really different from where I had lived, since all of my new friends went to private institutions after school. I couldn’t communicate and play with my friends for a long time, since I didn’t go to those places. I felt lonely. I didn’t have much time to have a conversation in my home either, because my brother, who is seven years older than I, do always stayed outside until the late evening and my parents both worked at the time. But there was a person who made me smile sometimes: my grandmother. She used to tell me a lot of her old-time stories and play pranks on me, all the time such as making me try weird food which she improvised and answering my questions with annoying wordplay that I couldn’t understand. To me, she wasn’t just grandmother, also my best friend.
In life, we all go through challenges and it’s either we face them or walk away from it. Growing up, people will always have different ways of handling things that happens in their life. We can’t know what could happen and how we handle it because life is unexpected. As I see it is that if you tend to keep making the same mistakes, you’ll never get passed your past and if you learn from all of your mistakes, you can move forward with your life. Everyone has faced their challenges in their own way and not everything in life will be easy because I can tell you right now that no one’s life is perfect. Everyone has their flaws, but they're perfect in their own way possible.