College Admissions Essay: What I Want Out Of Life

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What you want out of life

When I was young I had a reading and attention problem all throughout elementary school. From what my parents have told me is that my third grade teacher thought I had ADD But my mom being my biggest advocate found out that I didn't have ADD but actually had Auditory processing Disorder. From then till about 5th grade I had two tutors that helped me with reading and comprehension, and spelling it is now my strongest subject “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”- (Randy pausch, The last lecture) This lecture is about the importance of family, achieving your dreams, and finding out what you really want out of life.
Family to me are the people that love you the most and are the people that will always care about you the most and want nothing but the best for you. My family has always been very close starting since I can remember. I've grown up knowing all of my aunts and uncles, and all of my cousin. We would spend every thanksgiving with my Aunt Paula, every fourth of july with my aunt Wendy, and one weekend out of december we would all come together for a christmas party and we would all exchange names
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But to achieve this goal is to do whatever makes me happy and to strive toward those things and to achieve them no matter what. I love to cook and want to turn it into my career. I enjoy everything about it the taste, smells, the look of the final product and it's something i'm relatively good at. Now i'm not the best by any means but I know what i'm doing and have turned out some great looking and tasting dishes. One of my biggest goals in life is to find the right person and to start a family. Another goal that I want to complete is to make my parents proud of what I have accomplished in my life and who I have

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