<p>Learning how to organize my life is without doubt one of the hardest things I have to learn. High school was a completely foreign concept to me as a freshman and my grades reflected the lack of structure in my life. I ended up finishing my freshman year with measly 2.6 overall GPA. To me, this was unacceptable. I spent my summer pouring over glorified ‘self help’ books to no avail. This caused me to give up reading books that proclaimed to be the ‘magic cure’ and just start blindly reading. Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl received a glowing review from my favorite teacher so I decided to read it and dip my feet into the ocean that is psychology.
It was a book that commanded my attention from the very first page. The novel described in detail of how Dr. Frankl was captured by Nazis during the second world war and how he coped with life in the concentration camps. This book taught me something that is not in any academic curriculum while providing me a quote that I abide by in my life. “He also mentioned what may have been the real reason for [other prisoner’s] death: giving up hope.” This quote struck home because that is exactly what I had done with my high school career; I had given up hope of ever getting into a good university. It taught me to never give up hope; that if men and women could find something to live for in a concentration camp I could find a way to get my academic life back on track. After the I finished the book, I soon made a plan of action just as Dr. Frankl did 60 years ago. I concentrated at getting one thing done at a time and then moving on to a different piece of the puzzle. It was not a quick fix, but in the months leading up to my sophomore year I practiced working with my plan of action to organize my life, and remain stress free. This hard work paid its dividends in the form of almost a full point jump in my cumulative GPA in addition to taking on more responsibilities in my extracurricular life through high school without the pressure my peers were experiencing.
While almost all things come in and out of our life, assignments, athletics, jobs, friends, the latest technology, and homework, the lessons taught by Man’s Search For Meaning will never fade from my memory. Being able to organize life is a key part of leading a fulfilling life and by something as simple as one book, a mere 4 hours out of a day, has drastically changed my whole view on life and how to live it. It has given me a reason to pursue my favorite subject, psychology, at the 9th best university for psychology in the nation, the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But above all else, it taught me to never give up.</p>
Can someone help me revise my essay to madison?I would greatly appreciate it. Be as tough as you can
<p>" finishing my freshman year with measly 2.6 overall GPA" <em>a</em> measly 2.6 overall</p>
<p>“I spend my summer pouring over” you mean to say poring</p>
<p>What exactly do you mean by “blindly reading” also?</p>
<p>“It taught me to never give up hope;” Putting ‘the book’ instead of its pronoun would be clearer, also that last ; should be ,</p>
<p>" and by something as simple as one book, a mere 4 hours out of a day, has drastically changed my whole view on life and how to live it." do you mean to say ‘…life, and something as simple as following one book’s advice’ or something similar, because that part makes no sense as is</p>
<p>Thanks! I fixed all those errors. </p>