There is no time like the present. You never really know when an opportunity will present itself to you again, so why not seize the moment and take advantage of it the first time it comes around? Oftentimes people will dismiss the chance to experie
UCLA11Essay (13)
Jackson Carmack
Arts and Arch 10
Ron Winter
January 31, 2011
Tradition?
I feel like UCLA is not where I belong, but if you were to ask anyone else that knows me they would say it is. My Mother, Father, both Grandparents, both Aunts
The wind was whipping the rain around on the frigid autumn night of November first two thousand eight. So much wind and rain in fact, streets were flooded, and sailboats could have easily replaced cars. At the time I was a high school senior, s
I love to do various things and some things have a different reason why I do things; overall, I do what I do for me. I want to reach eternal happiness and this can only be reached by having a certain positive mentality. Knowing that the outside affe
We often underestimate the amount of time we have in our lives. The time spent reading, playing, sleeping, running, laughing; etc goes by in the blink of an eye without us realizing it. I blink, I’m in a lecture hall, I blink, I’m walki
My friend Mike and I had been best friends since I was eleven years old. Mike, who is one year older than me, graduated a year earlier than me. He got into his dream school, and after a happy but painful graduation, I wished him good luck in his new
I was born and raised in Korea until I moved to America in 5th grade. My parents left all their family members, friends, jobs, and everything they had worked for to provide a new opportunity for me. Because they risked and sacrificed so much for me,
How do you feel the moment you open up your eyes in the morning? Do you wish that the alarm did not wake you up so you could snooze for ten more minutes to finish your sweet dreams? Do you not want to get up so you don’t need to face the picky s
Some people live in the past; trying to recreate moments and memories they miss or want to redo. Other live in the present, experiencing things as they happen and going with whatever happens. I live in the future. I can’t help but always think about
I love the feeling you get when you run full speed into someone. There honestly isn’t a better feeling than putting pads on and knowing that you just became in a way invincible. The shoulder pads and helmet that I put on during the few weeks in the s
I once was a big fish in a little sea and I don’t know how to swim away. I grew up in a very small town where four cars inching along behind a tractor were considered “traffic jams”. Only a few months ago, local grocery store owners and Subway worker
