College Admissions Essay: The Ambition That Changed My Life

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There I stood shocked, I had made it, I had won, I had successfully proved my ambition in the greatest fashion imaginable to me. Months before I had struggled with my own identity. “Who am I? What is God’s plan for me? What's my plan for me?” These endless questions rattled through my head like a car with three wheels missing, day after day, night after tossing, turning, and sleepless night. “What was my plan for me?”; that had always been the question I struggled most to answer. It was so strange yet made so much sense in my head, yet sometimes appeared clear in my everyday scholarly life at Ocean Lakes: I could organize events, people, even the most disorganized scenes, yet could not keep myself organized. No ambition had …show more content…
I was so particular, and that still didn't change after the nomination. But here I go, like usual, on a tangent unrelated to, yet directly caused by pure, savage ambition. Ocean Lakes High School, Sophomore year, Nick Gallo, currently right handed [will change], consistently inconsistent handwriting, mood, and organization techniques for myself, while my leadership and organization for passion stood like a house built on the rock [also very religious (unchanging)]. It's academic (although we all call it study block), early morning without assignments to complete, Nick Gallo talks to Sophia (Dy) for the remaining hour about SCA. Nick had been inextractible , as SCA seemed like a giant paradox, without an innovator, without a fire under the seat, without warmth for the house (yet that's just his own, maybe not completely politically or actually correct opinion). Sophia, who had been on the SCA Executive Board that year stated "It's just not that dire." I pondered the necessity for innovation for the SCA, and in the end disagreed completely with Sophia. I had firsthand experience of being what I labeled as the "clueless freshman" or a "PCP" student: not because I wanted to be, but just because I didn’t know where to
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