Personal Narrative: I Am Eric Oliva Acosta

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I am Eric Oliva Acosta, I was born in May 26th, 2000. I am a young man who is a warrior who has probably experienced more things and gone through them than what average people my age have gone through. Leaving on the side all the life struggles I have experienced and overcome. I am a young man who has always had a goal in life and want to go to school everyday and learn more and more as each day pass as I go to school. I am writing this letter with the hopes of pursuing this University and get accepted to be able to continue with my career studies development. A couple of years ago, I was living in Mexico. It was the summer of the year 2013 when I was asked by my parents if I wanted to continue my studies in the United States but I was going …show more content…
No one has really believed in me that I could make it far in life, so what I do is believe in myself and push myself overpassing my own limits. I have always done more than what I am expected to do, I am never satisfied with what I do because I feel that urge to do more and more. Not only do i teach myself to learn new things, but at the age of 7 before going to Mexico when i was still here in the U.S i thought my little brother the alphabet and how to talk in English. There is a quote by Zlatan Ibrahimovic that I relate it to me which it says “We usually say you cannot become a legend before death but I am a living legend already”. This quote relates to me because of all the things I have done and gone through from living in Mexico and working at a young age and see how people live over there to leaving my family also at a young age in seek for a better future and live with relatives. At the end, I only have one thing to say that sets me apart from the others who are also applying and that is I am the only Eric Oliva Acosta you will ever know about applying to this University. I simply am not like the others I am unique because I am not the others I am me, myself, Eric Oliva

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