College Admissions Essay: What I Learn From Goals

Learn from goals Learning opportunities happen everyday. Everyday you get a little bit smarter because of the experiences and the events that happen and now if the same thing happens again now you know how to handle it. But everyone has things they strive for or accomplish these are called goals. Goals are much harder to achieve because they are suppose to take more effort so when it is accomplished you can see hard work pays of. Along the way in trying to achieve this big goal there are a whole bunch of little thing you have to do in order to be able to achieve the ultimate goal. And some of the smaller stuff you might mess up, but again you learn from that and the next time you do it better. But trying to achieve a goal is the only experiences

Ever since I was born my mom was always there for me and up until she passed, I didn't really know my dad well because he was gone months at a time working. When i was born something was wrong with my brain sending signals to my legs, the doctors actually thought i would never walk. It was because of my mom working with me everyday that i was able to learn how to walk. But this meant went spent almost every second of every single day with each other and were extremely close and i am the youngest in the family. When she passed away December 19, 2008 it totally destroy christmas for me. No longer is December a happy time for me, i just pretend like it is just another day and get done what i need to get done. Losing a parent and the other one is always gone working meant the my siblings and i had to mature at a young age too take care of ourselves when dad was not around because he was working.This cause everyone to realize life is short and we need to make the best of what we can with what we are dealt with. I use my mom as motivation to do good in school and to make her proud. Clearly, my mom passing away had a huge impact and shaped my life to make me who i am

This experience made me not like march which also happens to be the same month i was born in. He fell into a coma for three months. This is where i met many people the were willing to help the scare little boy the didn’t understand why this was happening to him and his family. I didn’t think we deserved it, we just lost our mom and now I might lose a brother too. The was a older lady at the hospital that always built puzzles by herself. One day I decided to see if i could join her because i wanted to take my mind off of everything that was happening. She let me join and we built puzzle every single day up until the last week before my brother came out of his coma. I didn’t understand where the lady had gone we have seen each other everyday for the last 2 months. It wasn’t until the next day that my dad told me the that one of the doctors told him she a passed away in the night. I didn’t know she was sick so i really didn’t understand, but my dad did say she left me all the boxes of puzzles we built together. None of her family would come in a see her and i was the only one that made her happy for the last bit of her life, the simple act of building a puzzle. A couple weeks went by and we learned was my brother had was a genetic heart defect. My dad ended up have to go to the ER because his heart start to mess up. After that he had to do testing to see if any of the reast