<p>Aviation has always been my dream. There is a picture of me only a year or two old holding onto a toy airplane playing with it. As i grew up i knew i wanted to become a pilot no matter what. Particularly i would love to become a fightier pilot through the air force. However as my vision decrease, i knew the likely hood of that became less and less. I still knew that i had to do some something with the military and i wanted to do it through the air force. I had to serve my country and i still do and still will, somehow.</p>
<p>I became interested in the Air Force Academy when i was in 6th grade. The more i read about it the more i loved it. As i grew older and entered high school i wanted, thrived for it even more. I did not want to go to a regular college. I wanted a life far more challenging and meaningful. I wanted a life worth living, remeberable and know i worked my ass off for it (can you tell i just watched Saw and Saw II?). More ever, i wanted to do something more meaningful than everyone else (except those at the academies duh). I wanted to be challenged, stressed, worked but in the end to have that amazing feeling of success.</p>
<p>Other reasons are: Job Security. We are always going to need a military. Great pay and opportunity to advance. Do something i want to do. Have close relations with people in my field (we’ve all gone through the same stuff). Serve my country. I want to make my parents proud (not that they are not).</p>
<p>This is why i resolved to keep at trying absolutely everything possible to get into the academy. This is why i have taken the SAT and ACTs repeately. Have made work out plans to stregnthen myself to not only exceed averages, but almost maxes on the CFT. This is why i am always calling people to make sure my applicaiton is doing what its supposed to be. This is why that even with my medical disqualification and subsequential waiver denial i am still calling people, writing letters, making appointments and faxing material everyday. That is why i loose countless hours of sleep and bits of hair under the stress of uncertainty. That is why i took the hardest possible classes my first year of college to remind me what i wanted academically, and to prove myself i could do it. That is why i also took on a parttime job to take up more time and push me.</p>
<p>This is why i will apply again next year (3rd time), go through all the paperwork, interviews and nomination stuff, and do everything possible to make myself even more competitive and get my medical cleared up.</p>
<p>Wow…this was a really long post (rant if you might say so). But i think it gets the point across. i could talk for an hour or two more but you get the idea :-P</p>