College Admissions Essay: How To Ride A Bike

I was very privileged as a seven-year-old boy from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Because of my hobby as a child, I had the chance to do something very big that only about a hundred kids per year have the chance to do. It took a lot work to get to this place that I was going, but it was well worth it. This is something that I do not like to talk about with a lot of people simply because it takes a lot of time to explain. My childhood was very different from your average kid from around this area. My families hobby when we were little was Motocross. At the age of two and a half years old, I first learned how to ride a four-wheeler and I’ve been told that I loved riding on it. While I was doing this, my sisters were already competitively racing in mostly Minnesota, Illinois, and Texas. So after I turned three, I started to learn how to ride a bike and then quickly transitioned to a motorcycle. I find that pretty Impressive when I think about that, because I know a lot of kids that didn't learn how to ride a bike until they were six or seven years old. Then I turned four, and I was finally eligible to start competitively racing with other kids from my age class. At this same time, my sister had a chance to be a part of the same thing …show more content…
We got to meet and talk to the pros after the race which was really, really cool when we were seven years old. I learned a lot from this experience in general. I learned that to get to a goal you set, you have to work very hard and put in a lot of hours to do so. I was proud of myself after this and I really enjoyed it. Not a whole lot of kids can look back in their early in their childhoods and have this significant of an experience. I am very thankful for everything my parents did for me throughout my childhood, especially the amount of time and money spent to help me have a better life and learn more moral