College:
Essay Prompt:
Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community or family.
Colleges I’m applying to:
Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community or family.
Colleges I’m applying to:
- Quest University Canada
- University of Colorado Boulder
- Montana State University
- University of Montana
College Essay:
It was at that moment, when the light illuminated from the seatbelt sign had finally extinguished, that I transitioned to adulthood. A chorus of mumbling I couldn’t understand broke the calmness of the still aircraft. A suffocating heat spell invaded the narrow aisle and wound up resting on my heart. The weight began to pull and push creating emotions I had never felt nor heard of. Flashbacks of my mother’s touch and my father’s voice decorated my mind leaving me hopeless, standing still in place. A slight nudge on the shoulder intruded my sorrowful thoughts and left me with nothing to do but proceed towards the exit; where my new life awaited.
It’s challenging describing the feeling one gets when saying farewell to everything they’ve known for the past 16 years. The way the tea-kettle screeches at the top of it’s lungs every morning at precisely 7:00am or how the sun sinks behind the mountains every night, creating glistening beams of gold that peak through the sheer hills I call home. Abandoning my perception of normality and replacing it with a door that behind, holds a mystery I would soon explore. On July 31, of 2016, I began a lifetime in a year. I went on Rotary Youth Exchange to Germany.
An aroma of rising bread and cigarettes filled my head the second I walked out of the airport. This obviously was not home and at that moment, I didn’t think it ever truly would feel like home. I was wrong. I found a small bench sheltered from the hustling of traffic taking place on the streets. I saw people of all different colors and languages living any other usual day in Frankfurt. A string pulled on my heart as I imagined my petite mountain town in the bottom left corner of Colorado. I had substantially stepped out of my comfort zone in just a mere couple of hours and there was no going back.
As school started about a month later, I didn’t have any friends. I lived with a family who drowned me in negativity constantly and made it difficult for me to wake up excited for the next day. I had so many strenuous days while I was living abroad. I look back now and appreciate the lowest points for they’ve made me a stronger human being; a stronger adult. I made the best friends of my life that year. I was able to advocate for myself and live with a different family that resembled love they same way my family home loves. I took problematic conditions and adjusted them by communicating for what I stand for. Living abroad for a year, I faced obstacles on a daily basis that at the end of the day, shaped me into the adult I am. I became more grown up both mentally and physically with every new experience I crossed paths with. Whether it be the day I stepped on the plane or the day I got off, it was moments like these, stepping out of my comfort zone, that I transitioned from childhood to adulthood.
Coming into college, I will apply the knowledge I learned from living independently for a year to my studies and my all-around college experience. My adaptiveness, independence, and better world relations will open up endless possibilities that will boost my educational experience. I’m passionate and ambitious for what comes next in my educational career and I would be overwhelmed with honor to be apart of your community.
It’s challenging describing the feeling one gets when saying farewell to everything they’ve known for the past 16 years. The way the tea-kettle screeches at the top of it’s lungs every morning at precisely 7:00am or how the sun sinks behind the mountains every night, creating glistening beams of gold that peak through the sheer hills I call home. Abandoning my perception of normality and replacing it with a door that behind, holds a mystery I would soon explore. On July 31, of 2016, I began a lifetime in a year. I went on Rotary Youth Exchange to Germany.
An aroma of rising bread and cigarettes filled my head the second I walked out of the airport. This obviously was not home and at that moment, I didn’t think it ever truly would feel like home. I was wrong. I found a small bench sheltered from the hustling of traffic taking place on the streets. I saw people of all different colors and languages living any other usual day in Frankfurt. A string pulled on my heart as I imagined my petite mountain town in the bottom left corner of Colorado. I had substantially stepped out of my comfort zone in just a mere couple of hours and there was no going back.
As school started about a month later, I didn’t have any friends. I lived with a family who drowned me in negativity constantly and made it difficult for me to wake up excited for the next day. I had so many strenuous days while I was living abroad. I look back now and appreciate the lowest points for they’ve made me a stronger human being; a stronger adult. I made the best friends of my life that year. I was able to advocate for myself and live with a different family that resembled love they same way my family home loves. I took problematic conditions and adjusted them by communicating for what I stand for. Living abroad for a year, I faced obstacles on a daily basis that at the end of the day, shaped me into the adult I am. I became more grown up both mentally and physically with every new experience I crossed paths with. Whether it be the day I stepped on the plane or the day I got off, it was moments like these, stepping out of my comfort zone, that I transitioned from childhood to adulthood.
Coming into college, I will apply the knowledge I learned from living independently for a year to my studies and my all-around college experience. My adaptiveness, independence, and better world relations will open up endless possibilities that will boost my educational experience. I’m passionate and ambitious for what comes next in my educational career and I would be overwhelmed with honor to be apart of your community.