Homeless 4.0 transfer student

Maciejczyk
Fri, 28 Aug 2015 02:43:40 +0000

Thanks. I really appreciate all of your advice. I did not know that about the private school’s generous financial aid packages. I started looking at them. Some of them say 100% of demonstrated need.

I am still a little worried about looking outside the state. With acceptance rates of 1%-18% what are the odds that both my wife and myself could get into the same one? It would be hard to cope if one of us got accepted here and the other one in Ithaca NY or something.

It is also hard to deal with the brevity of these essays. How do you boil down the entire essence of who you are to 500 words?

In talking about my time living in an RV I haven’t even scratched the surface of my experiences. I feel like I also have to explain why I did not go to college out of high school, and am now a reentry student. No one in my family has ever graduated college. Most of my cousins did not graduate high school and are in jail on non-harm crimes like possession of illegal substances and prostitution.

The housing crash was hard on my family and they had to sell their house. After working at the US postal service for a short while, I moved to California thinking it was the easy answer to all our problems.

I started doing stand up comedy even though I had severe social anxiety disorder. In a way it helped with that. I started to make some leeway. The owner of the laugh factory felt bad for me and set me up with the clubs free therapist, who was really there for their working rode comics. Even with the therapy it was still hard putting all of myself on the line every night. All of my confidence rode on whether the crowd liked me, and eventually I had to give it up.

I was lost until I returned to school. Before I returned to school I had to spend a lot of time in Alan-on meetings to understand myself. I did not even realized how much of me was determined by the rest of my family’s substance abuse. It took that community to realize that I was not worthless or defined by others, but I started to derive real confidence in myself when I returned to school. Even though we are living on the streets I am feeling better about myself than ever.

Should I be more brief about being homeless and talk about the rest of my life leading up to that?

For a special understanding of my circumstance could I say living with nothing allowed me to focus on what is important in life? Being conferrable with nothing allowed me to focus on my ideals. I have been trying to build a life plan around my ideals rather than material possessions. I want to teach. Teaching can have a positive domino effect on the world.

This is really hard to put yourself into a box. Does everything really ride on the essay like they say?

What do you mean by,“as somebody who also has a less than ideal background”? I shared mine. I am very curious about your story. When I wrote that I was hopping to find someone to talk to that has similar experiences. It is hard being an outlier in this negative respect.