College Admissions Essay: Who Is My Father

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In the previous paper I chose to write about the person I admire which is my father. I talked about his characteristics that I admire about him which is his perseverance and also that he always thinks and doesn’t act rashly. There are many people that surround my life, but I chose my father because he has always been the shoulder I could always lean on. He is the only human being that has been with me through the times I felt like quitting. Whenever I felt like I was alone, my dad would always be there to console me and would always put a smile on my face. My dad has helped me with many important decisions that I had to make throughout my life. One of those decisions that was life changing was deciding to whether or not …show more content…

By my dad supporting me to continue my education gave me a feeling of being able to do anything I set my mind to. In the decision I made at the moment and now I have not seen a big difference in my life, but I know that I will see the results of my decision later. The path that I decided will not be easy, but with the help love and support I have and continue to receive from my dad, I know that I can make it and make him proud of the person I have become. His major desire is for my sisters and me to be the first in our family to graduate from a university. I don’t know what it would have been of my life if it wasn’t for my dad’s firm attitude toward continuing my education. My father has inspired me to try and be a better person every …show more content…

He taught me that if I did commit a mistake I should take full responsibility for it and learn from it so that it doesn’t happen again. I consider myself to be a calm, hard-working, respectful person, and also a person who is able to adapt herself wherever she goes. I am the person I am today because I learned every aspect from the person I admire, which is my father. His presence in my life serves me as a type of guide because it helps me learn things base on his experience. My father knows me more than anybody else in my life and whenever I did bad things he would scold me which at first I would feel this anger towards him but his scolding permitted me see that the action I took wasn’t the correct

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