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Personal Statement

 

            When so many people go to bed dreading the new morning, I am too lucky to sleep with an unending smile. I have everything I want, I get everything I need, and I dig up more than I could ever ask for. So honestly, I would be joking to say that I don't think I'll get into the college I want. I could make up a sob story in hopes the admissions office would put pity to my cause, write about how much of a genius I am trying to impress people with my brain, or talk about the homeless people I feed to display my compassionate heart. But I do not have a sob story, I am not a genius, nor am I Mother Theresa. I am the incomparably blunt, determined, and goal-minded "Clarence Henderson that comes only in ones--and the only one is me. Throughout my life I have been more than fortunate to be surrounded by a family that loves me, loyal friends, and a safe community. Although I have not yet tasted the adversities life can spit, I have seen and learned from the circumstances my family and friends have gone through. It is them that expose me to otherwise bubbled perfection I am confined to. So in my twenty two years of living I have learned to be an individual, to be open-minded, and also to never expect anything.
             Before high school everything was too easy for me, I was living a style Jones's. I got good grades, I got along well with everyone, and my biggest worry was trying to find a matching pair of shoes for my prom. But looking back now, I realize that I had no personality. I was the "nice- guy in the class that everyone flocked to and the "goodie-two-shoes- the teachers loved. The biggest give away to me now is that I didn't have a favorite kind of music. As trivial as that sounds, it revealed to me that I wasn't me, I was what everyone cool was. If everyone liked hip hop, I was sagging the pants lower than everyone, if everyone jumped into the river, I was holding the towels at the side, and even more was that I did the traditional smile and nod more than I had spoken.


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