College Admissions Essay: Turning Point Of My Life

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Looking back on my life, it is easy to comprehend the turning points that led me to where I am now. Graduating high school, going to college, and all of the other coming of age events that signify the transition to adulthood. But all of that does not compare with what came after.
When I graduated high school, I believed that I had my future perfectly planned, indicative of the arrogance of most any eighteen year old young man. I went off to college to study engineering and did not even consider the chance of failure. Unfortunately, that failure did come. Through a combination of my lack of discipline, poor judgment, and sometimes sheer bad luck, I left college in poor standing. In retrospect, my lack of mental control and undeveloped ability

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