Personal Narrative: The Person I Am Today

There are many things that have molded me into the person I am today such as being born into a family with four children. With three siblings, I have been forced to be able to work out problems from stealing each other’s toys to having to rush to the emergency room to get stiches because my brother chased me around the house and I tripped. My mother, father, brother, and two sisters were all born in Pennsylvania and I am the odd ball and I was born in Adrian, Michigan. From when I was a child I always loved being involved with sports because of my competitive nature. I grew up playing soccer and having success with that but then my love changed and I began playing lacrosse and football. I started playing lacrosse in middle school and played

from fifth grade to eighth grade achieving more and more until I was the captain of the lacrosse team. I was on the football team seventh and eighth grade year. I had dreams of playing in high school but; once again, my love switched to golf. I had always played with my dad in the backyard but in the summer of eighth grade it hit me that I enjoyed this so much I wanted to pursue it. That summer I practiced as hard as I could and when spring came I made the Varsity team. I kept that position all the way through high school and even made it to States this past season. All of these were microscopic events compared to moving from Michigan to Florida during the summer before Junior year. This was life changing to me because I had to leave all of my friends, some of which I had been friends with for nine or ten years, and family to move down to a state that I only thought old people and Mickey Mouse lived. I had to adapt to so many things from the heat, new environments, the way kids acted, new house, new everything.

Nothing was the same anymore but it was a challenged I happily took after a few months of resentment. I saw it as a new opportunity to restart and focus on school and golf. I joined three AICE classes and got A’s in them my junior year and now I am in five AICE classes and have gotten straight A’s through the first semester. I found new friends without forgetting the ones at home and experienced amazing new things. Without moving to Florida I would not be half of the person I am today and I am thankful I took on the challenge of making the best out the situation! I look forward to have a chance at being a student at Florida State University because I feel like the engineering programs would benefit me with its prestigious majors. I would like to become a software engineer because my wish is to develop a program that can help the world and have everyone, whether rich or poor, benefit by using this software. I believe that Florida State would benefit by having me attend because I feel I can bring hard work, determination, and the experiences of going to a foreign environment and becoming the best in that situation, to the

University.