California dreaming can be so much better than California living; at least that’s what I feel sometimes after taking my gap year. This statement I believe is not only applicable to my gap year, but also my experience as a whole. Acknowledging the great presence of collegen in my face and the silky blonde undyed locks on my head, I realize that I have not gone through an immense amount of “life”, but I still know that my experience on this Earth has taught me a couple of things that make me the exceptional person I am. There are a couple of key oppurtunites and hardships that seem to way the heaviest on my being and memory, the death of my beloved grandmother and the so called “gap-year” I’m currently taking on, that have shaped me into a fit student for UT
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At UT I would add to the experience, because I will pull as much out of the education as possible and exemplify dignity while displaying true servant hood as a representative of The University of Texas. The gap year I am currently living within as I write this essay has taught me servanthood and the value of life, which are qualities every student at UT should have rooted within them. I graduated high school a year early to move to LA and pursue my dreams; usually the next step in a young dreaming actor’s career is the elope to LA because it is the land of opportunity for entertainers. I pushed to graduate early, working 24/7 to I did school work until I almost died so that I could take a gap year in LA. Time passed ( It’s so funny that I can fit what seemed like forever into a phrase like “time passed”), and it was time for me to move to LA. I was living in East LA when I first moved here, and I had never known the bright, darkness of the eerie city nights. I missed the sounds of crickets singing me a lullaby and the sweet embrace of family, but instead I was experiencing the city’s lullaby gunshots and the lonesomeness that makes one feel as if they are drowning. I never knew that I could
At UT I would add to the experience, because I will pull as much out of the education as possible and exemplify dignity while displaying true servant hood as a representative of The University of Texas. The gap year I am currently living within as I write this essay has taught me servanthood and the value of life, which are qualities every student at UT should have rooted within them. I graduated high school a year early to move to LA and pursue my dreams; usually the next step in a young dreaming actor’s career is the elope to LA because it is the land of opportunity for entertainers. I pushed to graduate early, working 24/7 to I did school work until I almost died so that I could take a gap year in LA. Time passed ( It’s so funny that I can fit what seemed like forever into a phrase like “time passed”), and it was time for me to move to LA. I was living in East LA when I first moved here, and I had never known the bright, darkness of the eerie city nights. I missed the sounds of crickets singing me a lullaby and the sweet embrace of family, but instead I was experiencing the city’s lullaby gunshots and the lonesomeness that makes one feel as if they are drowning. I never knew that I could