College Admissions Essay: I Am The First Guatemalan Astronaut

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“ ‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and hope. ‘Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.” (Jeremiah 29:11-12). All my life, I’ve been surrounded by students who have never discovered their purpose in life. They have either come from immigrant families or wealthy backgrounds, however, they expect to someday have a goal to achieve. I come from a poor and complex society in Guatemala. I came to this country knowing that I had a specific purpose and mission to complete someday, but what? I was looking for an interesting book to read over the next four weeks in fourth grade, I found a big, thin book that read ‘Planets by …show more content…

From then on, I’ve decided to discipline myself and give my greatest effort to my education. At the same time, I sacrifice sleep and fun time only to satisfy myself with a deep study or completed assignments. Although I have good academic level and willing to accept challenges, I am not a perfect student because I’ve failed from the desire to achieve more. I took two AP courses and Calculus during my sophomore and junior years, eventually especting a learning growth. Nevertheless, my expectations were never met and rather lowered my stamina and courage in STEM. Giving up my dream and desire to reach for the stars was primarily in mind when beginning senior year. Though learning about how Dorothy Vaughan fought to fit in a position to become NASA’s first African American female worker in computing, and Mary Jackson that fought for segregation and gender bias barriers in order to become NASA’s first American female engineer, had questioned and reminded me about what is my mission in this world? Deuteronomy 31:6 reads, “Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble at them, for the LORD your God is the one who goes with

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