Prompt 2
I couldn’t have been prouder on the day I scored horribly on the SAT. Not the official one, but a practice one that was taken in a controlled environment. I knew I could have easily scored higher than the meager score I received that day, but that’s not important. It wasn’t the SAT score I was proud of that day, but rather the significant life transformation that also happened that day in Beijing, China.
I was always an introverted boy in the past, and it all began when I was eight years old during a winter piano recital, of which I had to play the opening piece. To my young and unprepared self, it was quite a traumatizing event, and afterwards I gradually developed a hatred of public presentation to the point where it ruined my self-esteem …show more content…
It was one of the best (but unfortunately also one of the most expensive) programs, where students, historically, increased their scores by leaps and bounds. For six out of seven days of a week students would spend 12 hours per day learning everything about the SAT and live independently with a roommate at a hotel. On the first day, when introductions were being made, my roommate and many other classmates asked me questions about who I was and where I was from. Thus, the realization came that, here, no one knew who I was, nor did they know about my past, and from there I decided that I would try to take the ideal “me” that had always resided in my mind and take the first steps out. And it was at this moment that the first cracks appeared on the shell I had created. I started to freely express myself, and I began taking risks that I would have otherwise never taken, such as making a speech on the last day of the camp and eventually taking high leadership positions in three school clubs. From there, I gradually became more self-confident and started to chip away at much of the doubt, worry, and negativity that I had accumulated over the
I couldn’t have been prouder on the day I scored horribly on the SAT. Not the official one, but a practice one that was taken in a controlled environment. I knew I could have easily scored higher than the meager score I received that day, but that’s not important. It wasn’t the SAT score I was proud of that day, but rather the significant life transformation that also happened that day in Beijing, China.
I was always an introverted boy in the past, and it all began when I was eight years old during a winter piano recital, of which I had to play the opening piece. To my young and unprepared self, it was quite a traumatizing event, and afterwards I gradually developed a hatred of public presentation to the point where it ruined my self-esteem …show more content…
It was one of the best (but unfortunately also one of the most expensive) programs, where students, historically, increased their scores by leaps and bounds. For six out of seven days of a week students would spend 12 hours per day learning everything about the SAT and live independently with a roommate at a hotel. On the first day, when introductions were being made, my roommate and many other classmates asked me questions about who I was and where I was from. Thus, the realization came that, here, no one knew who I was, nor did they know about my past, and from there I decided that I would try to take the ideal “me” that had always resided in my mind and take the first steps out. And it was at this moment that the first cracks appeared on the shell I had created. I started to freely express myself, and I began taking risks that I would have otherwise never taken, such as making a speech on the last day of the camp and eventually taking high leadership positions in three school clubs. From there, I gradually became more self-confident and started to chip away at much of the doubt, worry, and negativity that I had accumulated over the