College Admissions Essay: My Experience As A Writer

I am a reader not a writer. There have been many experiences in my life that have shaped to be a reader. Growing up, I was always an avid reader and a novice writer. I enjoyed reading all types of books as a child. I read all of the Goosebumps books. My parents bought me all of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. When the book fair would come to my school, I would always have to buy a book. The school librarian knew my name by heart because I would always come and check out books. Reading has always and will always be my strength. Reading is my strong point because, in elementary school, my teachers focused more on reading than writing. We would have weekly readings and prizes whenever we finished a book. Also, we would have to take tests …show more content…
I don’t remember much about writing in elementary school. I remember writing book reports in middle school, which were pretty simple. When I got to high school, writing started to get complicated. We had writing tests we had to prepare for and we had to learn all of the rules for writing. I started to just write for the grade and not for enjoyment. Teachers began to enforce writing and not in a pleasing way. We would go months without writing and then one day my teacher would expect us to write a perfect paper. Sometimes we would write so much that I dreaded even hearing the word “essay”. There was never a happy medium. Writing became overwhelming.
As I continue to grow as a reader and a writer, I have many goals. My first goal would be to venture and read new things. At the moment, fiction is the only thing I take the time to read, besides school reading. It is time to broaden my library and mature in my reading. Another goal I would like to accomplish is to start enjoying writing. Writing is a good way to get thoughts down on paper that I can express. I don’t want to see writing as job. If I practice, I think I will start to have fun with writing. The time to change my attitude about writing is