College Admissions Essay: A Hollywood Ending
A Hollywood Ending
His backpack over his shoulder, my brother grips the paper tightly in his hand. While his feet shuffle across the hallway towards his room, a deep-rooted yell from the kitchen follows. Proceeding in reverse, he reaches our parents with curious eyes spotting his report card. As our parents stare, their faces slump into a shameful woe. “C’mon kiddo, you have the potential to get at least a few A’s next semester.”
That single word. Potential. Most define the word as encountering a prospective future; or maybe as having the potential to operate a business, or the potential to play college sports. It exemplifies the success in an individual. Or so does it? For when I was on the school soccer team my freshman year, my coach said that I had …show more content…
I, for one, knew this was a long stretch, but my friend had high hopes and practiced hard. He hardly noticed that fewer than 5,000 high school soccer athletes played division I (“Estimated Probability of Competing in Professional Athletics”). Senior year came around, and my friend had no expectations about going to college for athletics.
We, as people, look for the yellow brick road. We want a path paved to success, only for an exceptional nirvana, or a Hollywood ending to follow. These are both expected at the least to each individual, especially within the realm of dimmed possibilities.
Consider, for example, all the Internet ads one views in a day. There are millions. Actually, to be more specific, there are around thirty billion floating around in cyberspace (Kim). There is a plethora that gives the intention that any person can win an iPod, win a car, or win 2,000 bucks per week for life! In the long run--after “investing” several hundred dollars to receive the prize that can potentially change one’s life--it ends as a tragic deduction of money and
His backpack over his shoulder, my brother grips the paper tightly in his hand. While his feet shuffle across the hallway towards his room, a deep-rooted yell from the kitchen follows. Proceeding in reverse, he reaches our parents with curious eyes spotting his report card. As our parents stare, their faces slump into a shameful woe. “C’mon kiddo, you have the potential to get at least a few A’s next semester.”
That single word. Potential. Most define the word as encountering a prospective future; or maybe as having the potential to operate a business, or the potential to play college sports. It exemplifies the success in an individual. Or so does it? For when I was on the school soccer team my freshman year, my coach said that I had …show more content…
I, for one, knew this was a long stretch, but my friend had high hopes and practiced hard. He hardly noticed that fewer than 5,000 high school soccer athletes played division I (“Estimated Probability of Competing in Professional Athletics”). Senior year came around, and my friend had no expectations about going to college for athletics.
We, as people, look for the yellow brick road. We want a path paved to success, only for an exceptional nirvana, or a Hollywood ending to follow. These are both expected at the least to each individual, especially within the realm of dimmed possibilities.
Consider, for example, all the Internet ads one views in a day. There are millions. Actually, to be more specific, there are around thirty billion floating around in cyberspace (Kim). There is a plethora that gives the intention that any person can win an iPod, win a car, or win 2,000 bucks per week for life! In the long run--after “investing” several hundred dollars to receive the prize that can potentially change one’s life--it ends as a tragic deduction of money and