Write a NATURAL and INTROSPECTIVE college application personal statement about the person who has most impacted my life and why. WRITE ABOUT MR Atta Addo, my sophomore math teacher in Algebra II Honors helped me change my perspective on math. At first I felt like I hated and wasn’t very good at math and also heard many stereotypes about girls being weak at math and he helped me => include specific anecdotes and quotes from the teacher. He also gives me life advices about resilience and hardworking. I like studying math more and believe in myself that I can become a woman in engineering (stem) (fI plan to apply for a biomedical engineer). make it inspirational and unique. PLEASE MAKE IT AS UNIQUE AS THESE SAMPLE ESSAYS: “Prompt: Tell us about the person who has most impacted your life and why. (250 words)
Walking into my first class of senior year, Securities and Investments, I thought, “Just another class with just another basic teacher.” Mr. Anderson was standing outside the classroom, I walked in and saw no one, I knew no one. All of my friends were in separate classes, it was just me.
He started the class immediately after the bell rang by telling us, “Ok, class, let’s go outside.” Instead of just doing a regular old lecture, Mr. Anderson teaches outside and around the school. I was immediately hooked: to me, a class where I didn’t have to sit in a rock-hard chair for 90 minutes every other day seemed thrilling. However, it wasn’t just the outdoors that intrigued me, but the content: investments we can make throughout our lives, and how to benefit from the stock market. I was attached; I was drawn to business; I was drawn to the financial aspects, technological aspects, all the aspects of a business. Finally, a class that I yearn to be in, a class about the inner workings of the stock market and business.
Mr. Anderson taught me to keep an open mind when doing anything new, from joining a new class to researching a stock. That mindset has led me to new opportunities, such as volunteering for Wells International Foundation to create clubs. Now, whenever I’m feeling apprehensive about something new, I remember how much I ended up loving Mr. Anderson’s class, and do my best to change my apprehension into anticipation.”
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My aspiration to engineer new technologies and programs that can produce more sustainable
futures derives from two influential people: my father, an engineer who first taught me how to read
blueprints and apply principles of physics and mathematics to building increasingly complex
machines, and Mr. Michael, my Physics instructor who taught me that experimentation is
fundamentally about experience and error and gave me the confidence to allow myself to make
mistakes and learn from the outcomes in the lab.
Yet, perhaps the most impactful person in my life in recent years has been Mr. Anthony, who was
my tenth and eleventh-grade English instructor. Before meeting him, I had never enjoyed literature
courses because, no matter how much I loved reading, I was never asked to share what I thought
about the texts assigned on our syllabus. As a science student, I was pigeonholed, and I
internalized this critique by convincing myself that perhaps I did not have something to contribute.
Mr. Anthony changed all this. He pushed me to give class presentations on my favorite texts and
engage in debates over the ethics of Frankenstein or the ideologies embedded in Never Let Me Go.
Besides helping me blossom as a writer and public speaker, he also helped me grow as a scientist
and engaged community member, as I routinely borrow his pedagogical techniques as a peer tutor
and feel I have worthwhile thoughts to share in writing and speech as a teammate, classmate,
research colleague, and friend.