Western Application Essay - Undergraduate Applications

In these days, being well balanced a teen includes strong grades, having jobs, family time, playing sports, involved in numerous school clubs, participating in community service. But in all honestly, who has time for all this? I do. I have managed to keep myself constantly busy for the past eight years. I am proud to be able to look back on my last few years of school and feel an overwhelming sense of satisfaction. I believe that my job as a high school student is complete and through many of the activities I have completed, I am ready to move up and on to greater things.
By working with the Auburn Youth Teen Late Night it allows me to experience first hand, hard work. I take pride in working hard and sustaining the satisfaction of knowing that I have made a difference. While working with these teens, I feel like I am making an everlasting positive impression. I feel that by working beside these

students gives them security. Its giving them a safe place to reside, even if it is only for one night. I build relationships with these kids that extend beyond the school. Seeing them throughout the Auburn Community with colossal smiles widespread across the length of their faces. Recognizing them and being able to connect with them makes me feel like I have impacted, and become a pert of a greater thing. The Late Night Program gives students from the sixth to the twelfth grade an organized place to be, keeping them off the streets. We give them an equal opportunity to take part in games, arts and crafts, karaoke, a variety of sports, and free food! Being a part of an eight to ten staffed program, dealing three hundred to five hundred kids a night can be extremely challenging; but in the end I know that my efforts may go without recognition, but they don’t go without a lifelong impression.

Another positive prospect I have taken part in is my schools FFA chapter. It has been such a unique and memorable experience. Being able to go the State Convention as a freshman at Washington State University, and being elected delegate as a freshman. We would travel all over the state to compete in competitions hosted by high schools and colleges. I have collected countless first place ribbons and prize money from the fall and

spring fairs. I have learned to appreciate the work it takes when organizing such big programs. Unfortunately, the school could no longer further the classes in which are needed for this program to continue. Which is why I have started my own. I have constructed the Snag Island Beautification Project. Where through out the seasons, I plant hundreds of trees, organize landscapes and maintain roadsides. This is one of the more rewarding activities I have been able to partake in.

My passion in soccer, and I have been playing since I was five. I recently was awarded first team all league. This was such an amazing accomplishment for me, and my family. With all the dedication, broken bones, and time put into this eighty-minute game, I feel as if it has all been summed up with this single

achievement. I have, as all other athletes have, went through tough times, but my manage to step up and just play my game. This just reinforces my hard work and shows me first had that hard work has finally been rewarded. I just hope that all the hard work that I have put into my twelve years of school pay off by allowing me to attend your school.