UCLA11Essay (13)

Seize the Moment

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

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Tradition?


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

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To not have any regrets

      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

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A Fear of Failure

I have always feared failure, the thought that I could be beaten by a test or an obstacle has always motivated me. For me I motivated more by the idea of avoiding failure, then the notion of enjoying success. From the day I was born, my parents have
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b/c life can be a cruel world

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

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Life is so fleeting

            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

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Because I Want To Be Less Hasty

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

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To live my life to the fullest

     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

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Always Dreaming

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

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The game I love

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

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To fight for something right

I do what I do because I want a better life. My parents instilled with me, ever since I was young, that passion to strive to be the best I can be, to get the best grades I can get, to earn the most awards I can earn, to get into the best college I ca
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Big Fish In a Little Sea


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

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