College Admissions Essay: The Day That Changed My Life

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From the moment I successfully completed my graduation from elementary to middle school, I had my mind set on one thing: money. Growing up in a lower class family, I decided that my family and children would never have to struggle to pay for clubs or school trips. Etched into my ten year old mind about anything concerning money, the choice was obvious. I would have to become a doctor. Starting my sixth grade year, I pushed myself extremely hard. I took classes years above me. I joined every club that my school had to offer. I played for various sports teams. To most people, it appeared that I was a very successful young teen who had everything in life figured out. As I got older, I continued to tell people that I wanted to become a doctor. I told them I wanted to save people's lives; I wanted to go through the years and years of school. For a while, I did believe it. I had no doubts I was meant to become a doctor. However, my senior year of high school, I realized that nothing I had accomplished had brought me true happiness. I was stuck in a nonstop cycle of doing what was expected of me and what I thought should have made me happy. I decided to do something highly unexpected of me the day that I was accepted into my dream school, Stanford University. I enlisted in the United States Marines, and I expected my future career to be a breeze. …show more content…

My run times started to get worse, and I began to have doubts in my mind that this is what I truly wanted. There were points during this time that I began to regret all the opportunities that I had given up, and my motivation started to go away. The day I shipped off to bootcamp was the moment I realized I would do anything to become a part of the greatest branch of the United States military. It was at Parris Island that I, a girl who had never had to experience failure, failed. For some reason, I could not push myself to run faster, and I failed my Initial Strength

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