College Admissions Essay: The Value Of Education

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The school seems to be a great polygron for me. When I start to connect these different ends of the polyhedron, it appeared for me that there are a plenty of closed doors and unidentified roads which I had to open and learn every minute of my life. I was born and grew up in a family of intellectuals, which has always attached importance to the role of education. Personally, I consider myself a hard-working and motivated person because everything I have reached in my life was due to my hard work and persistence. Since my childhood, I had a special attraction toward foreign languages. I remember myself very often watching programs in other languages trying to repeat whatever they say. My dream was to become an interpreter and interact with people …show more content…
When I graduated from high school my parents were having financially very hard times. In Armenia, the education is very expensive, and there was lack of jobs and since my father was the only person who supported our family I couldn't let him suffer from my tuition as well. The University that I was planning to attend had two places for honors students who, by passing the exams, would not compelled to pay tuition and I set a goal that one of these places would be mine. I studied every day, day and night because I knew it would be a truly strenuously fight. I was so disappointed when first got my test results, only 2 points away. In Armenia, the corruption was everywhere. Whoever had money had also the power even in the education. As a common sense it should be not a matter of money but more the intellectual abilities of the person. However, the places were sold, it was heartbreaking, but I could be able to overcome my feelings and concentrate on trying next year and never give up. I have my own rules in my life, once I have chosen my goal and no matter of complexity of barriers I am leading myself to it as quick as