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College Admissions Essay: My American Dream

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When I first saw the essay's topic I thought to myself: -Ajkena this is going to be so easy, just write your dreams down.
But I read the topic over and over again and began to think that really this essay is not about writing my dreams down. I think I shouldn't not share my dreams with all the people that ask me to, I like to share my dreams with people that would like to be part of them. This gives me hope and motivation and joy while watching them realize. Dreams from goals differ in that, when we dream we think about opportunities as being always available and on the other side, when we make goals we know that we won't have all the opportunities we need to realize them. So here I begin, at DCC as an international student from a non-very famous country but still …show more content…

I see beauty in diversity!
I believe that this will help me in my career in twenty-five years. I want to see myself a great nutritionist who loves life and loves help people taking care of their bodies. On this Earth God gave us everything we need to complete our physic life. In twenty-five years I am a great women who has always loved treating people with love, and this because of the way I was raised in my family. I see myself finally as a proud citizen because I will finally feel home. I am a great nutritionist who never gave up cakes and cookies in occasions, because it is good to treat myself once in a while. I am a nice colleague, because no one wants to deal with a mean colleague. I am a great friend, because I miss my great friends. I am a great listener, because I love it when people listen to me and time taught me that people who listen are beautiful. I am a cool mother, because my parents taught me how to be one. I am a good wife, because at the end what meters most is being happy with someone you really

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