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.