An Experience That Changed My Life Essay

the last nine years of my life I have been an active member of Girl Scouts. After beginning as a timid, socially delayed, six year old a lot has changed and allotted growth in many aspects of my life. Though I was not necessarily thrilled when my mother forced me to attend my first official meeting at the local elementary school, I fail to see how I could possibly be the same person had I not gone through with Girl Scouts. This program has always brought out and harnessed my intentions of making…

Through my experience, my freshman and sophomore years as a musician were terrifying. On top of the shock of the new atmosphere at school, I had to play my instrument with and in front of others, which was quite a stretch for me at the time. I would always beat myself up about minute mistakes I had glorified during rehearsals, playing tests, and especially auditions. However, after I did not make an Illinois Allstate ensemble my junior year, my approach to these nerve-wracking situations…

Over the course of my junior high years, there have been some big changes in my life. So much has changed within my family, friends, style, appearance, maturity, height, and who I am as a person. Academically my grades have stayed above a 90 throughout my entire junior high experience, so there wasn’t much of a change in that category. My junior high years have been fun and I have had so many great experiences and opportunities, and I am actually not ready to be a freshmen yet. I’d like to enjoy…

Julius Caesar once said “experience is the teacher of all things”. As we grow older, we also get wiser after every time we face our own obstacles and they later on become our experiences. Our own experiences are not just problems that we solved. They are also our lessons that we learned through our life journey. Experiences help us find the meaning and value of life because it is the only way for us to gain knowledge and wisdom. We learn from our past experiences. A great example of…

opened my eyes to who I am and where I come from in a greater sense than anywhere else I have lived. Hence, I am reminded daily, that my culture is different from those in my community and in my family, yet I am embraced by and embrace the people I meet. My cultural identity stems from privilege, security, abundance, education and sustenance. I recognize the difference’s between my husbands and my upbringing and understand the way family and one’s culture…

of your life, but for Mike Rose it is a completely different story. “I Just Wanna Be Average” is an essay written by Mike Rose about how his score and another student’s score were mixed up and Mike was sent to a vocational school. After being at a vocational school, he changed for the worst as a student until the error was found, and he was sent to college prep classes where Jack MacFarland changed him back to a caring student. There are major contrasts between my high school experience and Mike…

the time, but this guy he changed my life. He made a song called deeper than blood, which I felt related to me in all ways. My parents were always arguing, they were broke and I was young so I really didn't understand. He continued to make new music throughout the years, I really didn't understand some of his lyrics till I got about 11 or 12. His message to me was that I will be okay and to just be a kid and things will eventually be okay. So not long after I thought my parents would divorce,…

Dominican Republic was not easy. Smelling the hard work of daily struggle and seeing my parents sweat each and everyday to be able to provide for me and my siblings was my motivation to one day being their pride and joy. It was in 2002, that we had our climax point where everything changed and my mother, two brother and me immigrate to the United States. It was an ugly, snowy winter evening when my uncle decided to kick out my mother, two brothers and myself from his house. We had only been in…

Everyone can relate too…____My experience of change, with my parent’s divorce dramatically changed the way I looked at divorce overall growing up. Not only did my parent’s divorce affect just how I looked at family, but it changed my outlook and opinion on all aspects of my life. The world totally looked different from before and after it, kind of like how_____ is relatable to you. “Divorce” growing up that word sounded dirty and gross to me. Incomplete and I felt like it was me trying to put…

All my life I have lived in a town called Fernley, Nevada and it will always be home to me. It is a small community that I had made incredible friendships throughout my school years and just growing up in general. From those hyper elementary years out in the playground, to those clever middle school years, to enjoying my first year of high school at the football games, hearing the cheering crowd, and waiting in the long unorganized line to get snacks, to the town being decorated on every…