College Admissions Essay: The Typical Way Of Life

The “typical” way of life; you may ask what that might be. Think of it as a straight line you follow, a line you are encouraged to follow since young. I was raised to believe the way to be successful was to complete school and head to college; that was once my line. Now sit and think about the line you were raised to follow, while I tell you how my line changed in my life.

Growing up I followed and believed everything my mother told me. As I grew older, questions about my future rammed into me like a runaway freight truck. With parents that made me take school seriously I would ask myself, “Why are they like this?” That brought me to ask my mother what school was like for her. One morning, I woke up and went straight to the bathroom, made myself presentable and marched downstairs ready to ask my mother what high school was like for her. With a tone of curiosity I asked my mother, “ Mami, como era la escuela para ti?”. That led to the discovery that both her and my father are high school dropouts; discovering that hit me viciously. I had more questions to ask, “we are doing fine, is school really worth it ? Should I even keep trying? Why do I still follow the word of these hypocrites?” This is …show more content…
All school criteria became idiotic to me due to my confusion. I started looking at the short and dismissing the long term. I asked myself “When will this be used in the future?” I disregarded the need to attend school. Not knowing where I was or what to do was only the starting point of the unacceptable behavior. Skipping school, lying to my mother, breaking rules. Anything out of line, I completed during that period of my life. I felt like no one enjoyed my presence, redundant, incoherent, troublesome. I came crashing down to my low point, my own little world of negativity, a habit. I knew it wasn’t healthy, which made my short term goal to be bearable to people. Knowing I had to leave the negativity behind I sought out