College Admissions Essay: What Makes Me Who I Am

Timing has a lot to do with your life. It is an appropriate timing that makes you who you are and what you do. So we are always taught that opportunity knocks your door only once and you should grab it when you get it. But I ask what you would do with an opportunity when you don’t know the best use of it? It is the waste of an opportunity itself. So may be if you transform yourself enough to go out of the door and grab the opportunity would be better if you just wait inside the house for the opportunity to knock it. After all opportunity is lurking out somewhere; you just need to improvise yourself to reach it.

Similar was the case with me. So much was my obsession with a foreign education that I had channeled all my strength to secure a future

Had in such case, I left for America so I would have never discovered who I was and what I am. After a couple of depressed months, I found solace in the company of those who were even less privileged than I am. My grand father once said “if you look at the pain around you, you will certainly forget what your pain and failures are”. And there in, I found myself. I found that I am more strong and competitive that I thought of be. I can make marked improvements in myself and not depend upon people’s expectations. I can fail as easily as I can defeat those who are continuous high achievers. I can make significant changes to my life and those around me for I am no longer scared of the failure that accompany with every student’s mind. This is a failure of grades which limits a student’s capacity to learn and to understand. But I have learned not to define myself by the help of alphabets for I am a lot more than that. I have a character that cannot be set aside by failures. I had seen more failures in my years of depression than any child of United States would have; I have seen failure to provide food for the dying, I have seen my failure to save a child from being

I don’t believe in just grabbing an opportunity that comes along in your way and I don’t count wasted opportunities as failures. I believe to make yourself capable enough that opportunity itself comes to you. I have proved my statement by achieving a merit list in the highest paid degree of Pakistan and from the best institution of Sindh. I have chosen this because I have learned that in my country, words don’t matter, only actions do so I can only help the poor when I have physical money to do so, not by writing words and speaking in media which barely 10% of the population has access to like the social sciences students “try to influence”. And to make my ambition more impactful, I want to study government so I have more power to help the deserving. Despite all the failures I had and might have in future, I have failed once again to not to accept failure as my identity. My grand father once said “Education is like a candle; it will show you the path but it is your strength and determination of your personality that will make you reach your