Sample Of My Essay

Cleveland216 wrote:

So here I am. 18 years older, 18 years wiser, 18 years driven. Am I the man who will lead my family into the next generation? Or am I just like the others who have had big dreams, but never did what it took to put those dream in motion? 20 years from now when people ask who am I will I be ashamed to say what I am and who I am? Or will I be able to stand tall with my head to the sky and say I am Hugh Walker, I am the man who went to College, I am the man who successfully set my dreams in motion, I am the man whom my sisters, brothers, cousins, nephews, nieces, etc. can look to and say “Yes, thats the man I want to be like”. As I look at my High School career I continuesly say to myself “Why didn’t you do this? Or “why didn’t you do that?” The only problem with me pondering over the past is that I can’t go back and change the hands of time. As young men I can only look to the future and I hope for a more prosperous lifestyle then the one I have lived the past 18 years of my life. The grades, the documents, etc does not define who I am. I know as a college recruiter your looking at my transcripts and saying “No way this kid should be at Morehouse College” “He doesn’t have the grades, He doesn’t have the extracurriculars, He has nothing”. You would be absolutely right for not accepting me to Morehouse College. However I’m asking your school to take a chance on a man who wants to be something more then just a statistic. I’m asking you to see what I see in me. I want your school to see the young men who has an undying willingness to do what it takes to be a leader, to be a son, to be a brother and most importantly to be Man. I was once told that all I can ask for is a chance, then once you get that chance make sure the world sees your star shine brighter then any other star in the sky. Well Morehouse if you decide to give me that chance to prove myself at the highest level of education I know in every part of my body that I will take that chance and run with it. My goal in life is to prove to not only my doubters, but to myself that I can do anything I set my mind to. If I want to be a pilot of a plane, or a lawyer, or whatever as long as I have the education and the drive I can do anything. A few years ago I remember standing on the porch of my house and telling my sister that some day I’ll be able to fly. She responded and said, “Unless you have wings or something, there ain't no way you’re going to be able to fly”. Well at that age I was like whatever you will see. Now that I’m older and I look back to that conversation I can think about what she meant by that. People always say you can’t do anything in life without help during the way, but in my case I tried flying without wings all my life, now that I’m older I realize that sometimes its not so bad having a little help or asking for help. This is just a sample, I want to add a paragraph or 2 then I'll be done. So what do y'all think?