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College Admissions Essay: The Teacher Who Changed My Life

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It was one of the cold days of December when I was enrolled in my first academic institution (kindergarten). I was in about five year old. The main ambition behind enrolling me in such a small age was to get admitted in some renowned school of Lahore. I was being given some extra importance as to achieve my goal. My main aim of life was to get admitted in Crescent school so as my hard work resulted me to get admitted in Crescent. I saw my parents for the first time being proud of me and I cleared my first exam of life.

Crescent is a different experience to gain. A school with lush green playing fields, beautiful auditoriums, libraries full of knowledgeable books and in short it was a school which gives you enormous opportunities of both curricular and co-curricular. I availed all the opportunities positively. I remember in my fifthth standard I used to be the captain of our junior football team at school. I was being loved by all …show more content…

Will I remain the jack with books loaded upon him or a successful person? I had to choose the way to success. And I chose to get admitted in Lse. I made my final decision and made up my mind to face all the things coming in the way of my decision. My parents became shocked on my decision and strictly ordered me to focus on computer engineering but the one person who changed my whole life was my cousin who was studying in London school of economics. He was back in Lahore for summer holidays. He defended me in front of every person. He made my parents to take a view of my decision. He made my point clear to all family members that a person should apply his skills to the field where he his skills would be worth off. Every person should chose that field in which he enjoys to work so he could do the stuff with his full hard work heart. So that he will be the master of that field. This thing was appreciated by my parents and they half-heartedly gave me permission to get admitted in Lse

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