College Admissions Essay: How Education Changed My Life

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It has been four of the most rough, amazing and successful years in high school, all that because the right people came into my life. Today, those people became the closest friends to me: my best friends. As a matter of fact, they became my second family. If it weren’t for them, I would still be the quiet, shy and self-hiding person I use to be. Luckily, the way life works with meeting new people, and new places gave me the opportunity to move on from who I once was to outshine myself into who I really am by accepting the right people into my life. It all started when we were once strangers and when good mornings and good nights were the only conversation we would exchange to each other. We barely talked and hung out, but the times we did …show more content…
It has helped me with my use of vocabs, for example; whenever I would watch movies with my parents, I use to struggle with understanding the language, because of the use of the words. However, nowadays, as I watched those movies, I am now able to understand what they are talking about. Not only movies, but my use of words have increased and they somewhat now sound more professional in a way. Another way education has changed me into the person I am today, is by giving me the chance to help my younger siblings with their assignments and essays. I consider my education as the knowledge I have gained from all the hard-working …show more content…
My past was like a concert with people coming from different places of the world. Those different people who came from different parts of the world are the reasons to why I want to become this and that in the future and they are the reason to why I want to go to different places in the world: to experience what they have once experienced. For instance, I have a friend who went to a summer program at New Jersey during the summer of 2016, and during her time there, she got to go to New York as part of the summer schools program; the place I have been dreaming of going to ever since I was still in elementary

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