College Essay Final Draft

University of Southern California Prompt:
Describe the world you come from for example, your family, community or school and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.
A T.V show life is every girl’s dreams. Where you win prom queen, you date the most popular football guy and get to be the captain of the cheerleading squad.  Plus you would be a genius student who takes all A.P and honors classes, gets pick to be the smartest in the class and is the president of the school. I used to be that girl the one that wanted to wear that crown on my head and be the genius. That little girl dream is still inside today, but my world wasn’t supposed to be like that. My world was supposed to be filled with different elements. My T.V show world has different channels that express family, friends, high school and soccer. These four channels never fade away. Theses channels show how I can reach that T.V show life in a different way.
The first channel that always pops up on the T.V is the family and friends channel. The channel that started on my very first T.V. My family and friends are the backbone, the cable box that makes the T.V work. My family is with me through it all. All the nights were I stay up until midnight finishing up a project. The times where I need comfort and support. My family does so much for me to succeed. Without my family I can’t imagine having the life I have now without them. Friends are just like my family but they understand me at my level. They get why I’m so stressed all the time. Why I sometimes I don’t know what to do. Why sometimes parents are just stressing us out more. My friends keep me calm when I’m about to burst because of all this homework I’m getting. Without my friends and family I won't have this type of friendly environment.
Flipping through the channels the high school channel is always in the middle. Everybody says high school can either be the best or the worst time of your life. To me high school is what you make of it. I am taking high school as an adventure, learning from my mistake. Not being afraid to make mistakes because if I make a mistake in high school I won’t make the same mistake in the future. With high school comes homework and loads of it. Most of the times I can’t enjoy high school because I have homework. With going to high school almost 365 days I can get a feel on a routine. Wake up, go to school, go to soccer practice, eat dinner, do homework, go to sleep. Then the cycle starts again. High school has given me opportunities to grow as a person.
The soccer channel always the last channel on the T.V, but it's the most important channel there is. Soccer is defined as a game played by two teams of eleven players with a round ball that may not be touched with the hands or arms during play except by the goalkeepers. The object of the game is to score goals by kicking or heading the ball into the opponent’s goal. To me soccer is a game where you work together as one team to score that goal. With me playing soccer for eleven years I learned a lot. One lesson that I have learned is that the bigger the risk the bigger the reward. I have applied this lesson to everything in life. At school, if I take a risk by trying something new, then my reward is meeting new people. It’s not always the outcome I would expect but it’s something that will help along through life. Soccer isn’t just a sport, it teaches me lessons that my family can’t teach me.
My aspiration in life was always to care for people. My mom said, “It was in my nature”. When I was 4 years I always wanted to make my little sister happy. My sister would always be upset because she couldn’t do things I could. I tried my best to make her feel special by playing dress up with her. It was always hard because of the two-year difference. Till this day I always wanted to my sister happy. My sister still feels down when she can't go high school events. That’s why I want to peruse a job in the health care field. I feel that the health care field will allow me to make people happy and helps me grow. My world has shaped my aspiration and dreams by making me understand how my decisions effect others. My world is complete for now, until I grow then my world grows. That means more elements come into play to make me the person that I will become in the future. Family, friends, high school and soccer show how I can reach that T.V show life in a different way. My own way. I can become prom queen by being an active participant in school activities. I can take A.P and honors classes by managing my time. That little girl dream to have T.V show life is still inside me. My T.V show world is 100% complete until it's time to add more channels.

Coming of Age Final Graphic

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Picture 1:

It was a normal Sunday at the Jones household. 7:00am ate breakfast. Morning family strolls at 10:00am. Lunch at 12:00pm, Dinner at 6:00pm. The only thing missing from the routine is at 6:00am waking up mom and dad. Just waking up only mom doesn’t feel the same to the kids. The Jones family has no idea that after a long 8 months over seas their dad is coming home, their dad wanting to be a surprise. Right before 10:00am the Jones were heading out for their family strolls. All of a sudden the doorbell rings, assuming it was the UPS guy instead it was their father. Everyone is overwhelmed and full of emotions. Now the Jones household will finally be complete.

Picture 2:

October 31, 1888 the most wanted man in American right in front of Kate’s eyes. Holding her gun firmly waiting to shot. Staring directly at her target right in the eye. The man pleading, “please don’t shot me, give me another chance”. Kate doesn't believe one word that can out of his mouth. Kate thinking to herself if I shot him, then the CIA won’t know any of his accomplices. If I don’t shot him he could escape and never be seen again. Kate thinking about the situation. In that moment Kate was shot in the heart and the most wanted man in American was never seen again.

Picture 3;

This last point determines who goes home with the gold. The United States up against their greatest competitor, Japan. Jasmine and Kaylee the top beach volleyball players in the history of the United States. Now determines if they are the best of the best. Japan serves the ball over directly to Jasmine, Jasmine bumps the ball over to Kaylee. Kaylee sets a spinning ball to Jasmine. Jasmine tips the ball over the Japan player. The ball hits the sand, the whistle blows, and the United States wins the gold. Knowing all the practices, pains, and stresses is all worth it. Jasmine slides on her knees crying and Kaylee jumps to the sky.

Picture 4:

Standing in a 3-hour line to ride the tallest rollercoaster in the United States. Finally when I reached the end, my palms get sweaty. Lucky for me I get to sit in the front. As I pull down the safety bar I start to bit my nails. Just when I clamed myself down the rollercoaster started. We went up and up and up. I can here it clicking and clicking each time we get higher and higher. Starting to shake my legs, arms, and head. Praying I will be all right. Then we headed down. 60 miles per hour winds hitting my face. This feeling can’t be more thrilling. Throwing my hands up in air enjoying the moment.

Picture 5:

Hearing the ice cream jingle coming down the boardwalk my sister gets excited. She tugs my dress to tell me that’s she wants ice cream. So I grab her hand and we walk down to the ice cream truck. While walking to the truck her smile gets bigger and bigger each time we get closer and closer. When we reach the truck she tells me wants try something different. It was applauding because my sister always sticks to what she knows. Her favorite ice cream of all time is chocolate, but she asked for strawberry today. So I asked the ice cream man for one strawberry ice cream in a cone. I give my sister her ice cream and she takes a big bit. So loves the strawberry so much that she asked me for another cone.

College Prompt Essay

University of Southern California Prompt:

Describe the world you come from for example, your family, community or school and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.

 I wish my world were like T.V show life. Where I win prom queen, I date the most popular football guy and get to be the captain of the cheerleading squad.  Plus I would be a genius student who takes all A.P and honors classes, gets pick to be the smartest in the class and is the president of the school. My world is nothing compared to what I see on T.V. I may look like just a regular standard student who participates in school sports, activities and classes. Have friends to hang with, eat lunch with, and talk with. Plus having a supportive family. But in my eyes my world is filled with highs and lows, laughter, stress, procrastination, and love. My world started off small only knowing family and close family friends, but now my world has grown into something that can’t be stopped. I’m like a sponge soaking up everything around me. The smells, tastes, sights, and sounds. My world is not just a simple equation it’s more like a highly complex equation that is hard to figure out.  The world is made up of living organisms and complex atoms. What is my world made up of you ask? My world is made up of highs and lows, laughter, stress, procrastination, and love.

Love is what gives me hope that I will succeed. Family and friends to me is the definition of love. Giving me support to go through my day hoping something good comes out of it. Family is the structure and foundation of my world. Love doesn’t always have to be for your family. I feel that I love my friends and how much they do for me. Keeping me on my toes and helping me along the way. Stress what causes me to flip out and become angry at everything. Can’t control my emotions and feeling inside. Having that feeling inside that my parents are pushing me so hard. Needing a break my talking to my closest friends. Doesn’t matter boy or girl as long as they understand me. Without stress, my world would be too perfect. Having an unstable world gives me a chance to have challenges in life. To test my boundaries with boys, school, and the outside world. Seeing what I can do under pressure and see what the result is. Learning from my mistakes to clam my stress levels down. Love and stress a perfect combination and sweet and spicy all into one are completing 2/5 of my world.

Procrastination a habit of mine when doing homework. Thinking, yeah I have lots of time. Then suddenly the clock strikes 9, my bedtime. Falling asleep thinking about oh I shouldn’t have gone to soccer practice, I wish I did it sooner. All these thoughts juggling in my brain how to get everything done but still put out quality work. Completing what I can before I get in trouble. When getting to school realizing that all my friends didn’t finish the assignment to gives me a sense of relief. Laughing and hoping we don’t have a pop quiz. Laughter is what gets me through the day. Giving me a chuckle or something to talk about on and on and on. Having something that reminds me not to stress out. To enjoy life now because you never know when it can be taken away from you. Wanting to life my high school life as the best possible is hard when focusing on school. Procrastination and stress a horrible combination, but when mixed perfectly then it becomes something that works in harmony completing 2/5 of my world.

Highs and lows what pushes me to become better each day. Seeing what others can do pushes me to better than I am.

Always wanting an A on every test but them getting back your test scores you got a D. Knowing that the next test I take I will study extra hard to earn that A. When I’m at my highest, I’m excited and cheerful then some how in a second I get at my lowest point. Knowing that my family is trying all they can to help me but I think it’s me who is the problem. Trying to fix out the bugs so I don’t have these rollercoaster moments. Most of my highs and lows come from soccer. Soccer teaches so much sometimes something’s my parents can’t teach me. Seeing my friends all getting down their ankle juggling gets me really upset. I feel that I hit rock bottom that I’m not trying hard enough. I keep practicing and practicing then I finally can do at least five. Now I feel accomplished even though it is only five I know I just have to practice harder if I want to juggle more.  Having rollercoaster’s moments help me change my attitude towards. Finally completing the 1/5 of my world.

Dreaming and believing are two different things. When dreaming I’m thinking about impossible things that couldn’t happen. When believing it takes it to a whole new level. Seeing with my imagination about what is to come with my family, friends, boys, and school. My aspiration in life was always to care for people. My mom said “It was in my nature”. When I was 4 years I always wanted to make my little sister happy. My sister would always be upset because she couldn’t do things I could. I tried my best to make her feel special by playing dress up with her. It was always hard because there was a two-year difference. Till this day I always wanted to make people feel better. If someone is not happy then I’m not happy. That’s why I want to peruse a job in the health care field because I enjoy seeing people feel better. Having these highs and lows, laughter, stress, procrastination and love changed my view on life. Seeing problems in a new perspective really helps me understand my choices affect people. Figuring out what dreams and aspirations easy because my world has shown my right pathway. My world is now complete for now, until I grow then my world grows. That means more elements come into play to make me the person that I will become in the future. My world is nothing like a T.V show world but in my T.V show it is 100% complete for now.