Transfer Scholarships
Scholarship Essay by Zak
I recently submitted this to be eligible for a scholarship and decided it would also be good to use as unique content for my blog. Let me know what you think, or if you think there’s anyway I can improve it.
So there I was, sitting at my laptop for the 3rd night in a row trying to think of a winning idea that would be able to earn me a scholarship. Most of the time I don’t have a problem writing, ideas usually come flowing to me in floods of information and I can usually arrange them into a pretty well written essay effortlessly.
Then why was I having such a difficult time choosing a topic? It’s not because I didn’t have ideas, but rather I had too many ideas and couldn’t choose which one would be best. I wanted to write an essay portraying all my best qualities, my understanding of the world, the universe and my willingness to strive the extra mile to accomplish my goals and succeed. Easier said than done.
I considered writing about my own personal philosophical views on the world, God, the universe and significance of life, but then realized that a paper like that, no matter how well written, would never show how I am as a person or the traits and qualifications which would deem me worthy of a scholarship. I considered writing about personal experiences but quickly realized they wouldn’t be able to accurately describe how I felt or thought about achievement or my own philosophical views.
So I did what most people do when they’re faced with something that isn’t easy to do and procrastinated. Yep, and I put it off for 3 whole days before deciding enough was enough and got down to work and decided to write exactly what was in my head at the time and just let the ideas flow.
I recently moved back to the US after spending 5 years in a foreign country to begin my college education. My plan was to find a place to live, find a job, start studying and then just flourish from there. Easy enough plan, right?
It seemed simple enough, and I figured as long as I still had the desire I could do whatever I put my mind to. Unfortunately, my “plan” was no where near as easy as I’d expected it to be. I faced problem after problem and trial after trial. Getting an apartment and looking for a job was a nightmare, primarily due to the economic crisis, and secondly because of the fact that I had no credit, no qualifications, no experience and most importantly