Experience

Humble The Poet, an author, once said, “life doesn’t start after the obstacles; life is the obstacles.” Many think that once they get over the obstacle, they can move on. They fail to understand life is a obstacle. This idea drives my story, and my obstacle of life in which I was given a new life to live, that without it not only is my application incomplete but so am I. Imagine being a little kid constantly having to worry if tomorrow will ever come. When I was 3 years old, I was diagnosed…

Overcoming Personal Adversities Ralph Blum once said, “The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings”. In reality, obstacles can be too harsh for one to handle, potentially resulting in loss and tragedy, though sometimes in life harsh obstacles can in fact result in positivity. The oppressive societies in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale put forth the idea of overcoming adversity. The authors recognize that some…

Whenever we live as normal human beings, we tend to set goals and accomplishments that we want to accomplish one day. We plan out a perfect and hardship free journey to get us right in front of our goal or accomplishment. Unfortunately, we do not live in a perfect world. In any type of journey, we will encounter a certain type of adversity that will try to get us off track and give up on our goals or dreams. As I think about what Horace stated and refer to my thinking, I come to agree with…

Zlata and Lydia are 2 survivors that are very much alike and different in many ways. They both had to do what was necessary to survive during wars. Zlata and Lydia both did not know if they were going to live or die because at any moment Zlata could have been bombed and Lydia could have been put in a gas chamber. They also both had to get food somehow for instance Zlata had to go out and get food being careful with what she did because at any moment she could be shot and Lydia had to sneak in…

Each of us face obstacles with various degrees of difficulty in our lives. Meeting those challenges and working hard to deal with them can become an everyday struggle. The sources of those obstacles can be as varied as their impact on those who face them. I have three obstacles in my life, all medically related, that I have to face daily. I was born with a cataract in my right eye that had to be surgically removed when I was 3 weeks old. This procedure left me with no vision in that eye and a…

Known as the Mesa Verde Crusader, Virginia Donoghue McClurg was a newspaperwoman for a New York publication the” the New York Daily Graphic who while on assignment for the paper visited the Anasazi Cliff dwellings to write a story, who was so impressed by their ingenuity and technological advancement that she would later move to Colorado Springs and devote much of her life to their preservation and study for future generations and is widely considered to be one of if not the greatest factor in…

Internship Questions Drafts What do you imagine is the coolest thing about being a counselor? Explain. Counselors at Kabeyun are constantly surrounded by their job. On most days, from the moment they wake up, trying to get drowsy campers out of beds and onto the Assembly Grounds, to running their activity, and putting those same campers to bed, they have a myriad of daily tasks, each with their own challenges. This is the most fundamental, but “coolest” thing about being a counselor. Although…

Overcoming challenges in life requires one’s mental strength and courage. Though challenges are demanding, challenges can also be very rewarding and valuable. Even the most strenuous challenges prove to be beneficial. This applies to Himani Bannerji’s story “The Other Family” in which a ethnic family immigrates to Canada. The mother is often questioning her decision to immigrate her daughter to Canada and ponders if it caused more harm than help to immigrate. Obstacles appear when the daughter…

You will face many problems during life and no matter what, you should never give up. You may get yourself stuck in some problems that you think there is no way of getting out of but at the end of the day, you'd be surprised by how many options you have. Jose Mujica did not exactly have a good start in life. He faced many troubles, but through all of it, he ended up getting his life together and becoming president. Jose Mujica had been in jail before but managed to do something unbelievable.…

To achieve my dreams and goals in life, I have and will face face obstacles. The process to achieve any goal or dream, life will create obstacles. There are times when our level of confidence becomes an obstacles in every step of life. Obstacles may seem a barrier in accomplish our goals. Being an International Baccalaureate student, I will overcome obstacles by facing them. Often time in life, we tend to ignore obstacles and I have done it too. To overcome obstacles, I will acquaint myself…