College Admissions Essay: My Junior Year Of High School

“There is no way you’re going to pass physics!” My mom shouted across the dining room table. My junior year of high school was the first time in my life I had the choice of an additional science course. There was some logic behind what my mom said to me at dinner that night. Everyone in my family studied and tended to do better in the arts, science and math weren’t the strong point of my family. However, I wanted to prove them wrong. After my teacher handed back my first test and I saw a huge “A” written on the top right corner in red ink, a grin crawled out of my mouth and onto my face. I couldn’t wait to go home and show my parents. When I handed my mom the test her jaw dropped, she stepped back and was astonished. It was the first time since elementary school that my mom hung my test up on the fridge. I’ve never felt so content in my life than that exact moment. I sailed through physics that year, helping the seniors with problems, and finding …show more content…
I excelled in those classes during my freshman year and created numbers of videos and movies for my school. It wasn’t till the end of winter in my junior year that I changed my mind. I remember sitting at the dinner table with my family when I brought up that I wanted to go to college for Physics, or something relating to science. Everyone's’ jaw dropped and their eyes focused on me. I expressed my interest in my science courses and my family began to realize that there was something more than my attraction to physics. I began to get more involved with my science courses. My friends always found me in a chemistry lab room or calculating out problems in the physics classroom. It became somewhat of an addiction. Physics became something I wanted to do in my life, but what in physics did I want to do? There were so many choices, and countless routes. I got so overwhelmed at that point and it felt like an enormous wave had crashed on