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.