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College Admissions Essay: How Zyzz Changed My Life

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Aziz Shavershian, Aka “Zyzz” once said “If you do not enjoy it and you want to do it just for the end result, might as well give up, because you wont be consistent.” Zyzz’s quote has motivated me to love what I do, and achieve more than the everyday mundane lifestyle. Zyzz has helped me through my path of obtaining a greater self esteem. I felt like a nobody,but then gradually I have risen to being positive about myself, to living life interesting and fun. I have learned to love what I like and to achieve it before I start hating on someone else for doing it. I started to see a gap in how other people were associating and noticed that I was behind, but I didn't know why I just knew I wasn't as social. Seeing that I wasn't up to par with the other students socially I started to gain confidence in knowing that I was better academically than the other hispanics, mostly because I could actually finish a book. I achieved three awards for reading books and scoring near perfection on the tests that accompanied them. With the knowledge that I had obtained a route for achieving what I knew I was missing, stress was relieved and allowed me to see what i should obtain. …show more content…

With a fresh start and a four companion from middle school that I had befriended over the summers being in North Carolina I knew greatness would be accomplished. I actually gained status because instead of a thousand students to make friends with it was a hundred with roughly a hundred more the following year. I liked what was happening then tragedy struck, I had to move back to Idaho nearly paying off the house in idaho the bank was trying to create a ruckus and not a single payment could be

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