Personal Essay

My favorite assignment was making the mind map and writing about it. I learned a lot of new essay styles like how to write a research and argumentative paper. I had one challenge with the research paper and became very stressed over. I chose a topic that I didn’t really understand myself so I couldn’t really write a paper over it. I then chose a different topic and got and A on it. My argumentative essay was easy because I argue a lot to get my point across. I have noticed that writing is just…

In March 2014, I encountered a rare, kind-hearted human being who impacted my life for the better. Little did I know that Ramsey Thrasher would slowly change me into a different person in the many months to follow. Before I met him, I was independent and the definition of a realist. Before receiving my first letter from Ramsey, I was a technology fanatic and thought that old-fashioned letters were practically extinct. I never enjoyed reading and writing, and I definitely wouldn’t rather spend my…

My choice to pursue chemistry with an opportunity to study overseas directly comes from my enthusiasm to pursue a career in a chemistry based field and a chance to address my personal development. Studying undergraduate chemistry with a foundation year would facilitate an expedited route into tertiary education given the current situation I face with my A levels and presents a preferable option for advancing my career path. Studying Chemistry with a foundation years offers me the opportunity to…

Prior to today, I had never heard of timshel. However, upon reading the passage and learning what it means, I feel as if timshel is a word that I can, and already regularly do, apply to my life. Although timshel means ‘thou mayest’, in my own words I view it simply as this: we get a choice. Nothing is concrete, and the choices we make help shape us into the person we become. We can choose to be lazy or rude or have a negative outlook on life, or we can choose to be positive and do our best to…

When I think of my personal happiness I think of myself living a pleasing life, having a career with a great income, being wealthy and teaching my kids the right way to do something and not the wrong. Being nice and considerate of other people will take you a long way in life. But everyone’s definition of happiness does not consist of the same thing. Someone else’s definition of happiness could be to grow old with their significant other and move far away to a secluded, private island drinking…

Your identity is never complete because identity is an ongoing definition of you. When you stop learning new things your identity will be complete, but since you are always learning and always getting smarter your identity will never be complete. Your identity is based on the people around you, the environment, the people you are with everyday and, and all of the experiences you have been through. An author will not be able to reveal the full identity of a character because as the story goes on…

Plaid and Proud A question that I have spent an immense amount of time discussing is that of whether purpose or method matters more. Simply stated, that question is “Why, or how?” Through much debate, I have landed on the conclusion that how something achieves its cause is, in fact, of greater importance than the purpose of the object itself. Therefore, I will not compare myself to an inanimate object in terms of what ends it achieves but how it achieves those ends. And when viewing…

numbered as one. Knowing where you want to go, and what you want to do. Then comes focus, directing more of you energy towards goals. Value coming in at number three. Personal value how your path is traveled, defined by what it is important to you as an individual. The passion which drives a peak performer. Immersed…

Are you wondering who a personal financial coach is? Well, a personal financial coach is an expert who has extensive knowledge of the debt, credit, reserve (saving), budgeting, retirement, paying for kids’ college, and spending money wisely. Even though they are not personal financial planners, they often educate individuals about different types of sensible investments and insurance. Qualities of a Personal Financial Coach • A personal financial coach who will sell you debt management plans or…

Memoir Draft If there's one way to spend an evening, it's doing math problems the whole night. Of course, I could have been at an award ceremony in the capital, but since I didn’t win anything, there wasn’t a need for me to go, so instead, I spent my night catching up on some math problems. It wasn’t until my mother got a phone call from the 6th grade science teacher that I realized we probably should have gone to the awards ceremony. Earlier that day, contestants at the state science fair…