<p>As some of you may know, I posted a essay a while back: here is the revised essay..</p>
<p> I want you to be better then me; if you are not and become just like me, or worse, I have failed </p>
<p>It is a goal, a principal, an ideal that, a piece of advice that until recently, never really understood. As I graduated from high school, completed an internship and when into college, this statement continued to follow me playing an increasing role in influencing my behaviormy choices. </p>
<p>My high school experience and mindset can be described as a typical for a student planning to attend college: take relatively rigorous courses, do well in those classes and participate in extracurricular activates. I did find many activities that interested me and completed them in their entirety never leaving before the job was done. While I did perform many of these activities attentively, I never really understood the significance nor take the utmost pride in them. My mindset and central goal was misplaced as I ignored that critical piece of advice.</p>
<p>Interesting changes in prospective and attitude begun to occur when I graduated from high school and went on to became a college sophomore. My overall optimism, ethic, unrelenting persistence and analytical mindset remained unchangedmy foundational goal did. What triggered this revision, whether it be my independence being far away from home, my self scrutiny, classes I took, conversations with others, observations of my environment and those around me, I do not know. What I do know are the effects: faith has played a more significant role (even though I would never admit that to my parents), participating in activities that I regard with sincerity and influencing one of the most significant decision I have made, of which I am most proud of.</p>
<p>I am not a top student, the fastest thinker, a stellar athlete, a musical prodigy, nor the most gregarious; what I lack in those, I make up in relentless persistence, progressive improvement and self review/criticism. With each progressive year, I have always uped up the ante in regards to difficulties and in goals in order to remedy my faults. The duty and I service I will perform in the upcoming months and years, I hope, will make me a better a better adult, a better Catholic, a better American.</p>
<p>No! I dont care what you do with your life or how much money you make: I want you to be better man then me; if you not, I have failed as a father. My father told me this when I was about 9 around the dinner table. I was rather stunned at that severe reply when I told my dad that I wanted to just be like him. It has been nearly 9 years since he said that, yet I still remember it to this day. It is an unfortunate thing sons tend to downplay the influence their father plays in their life or how they shape their expectations: I am no exception. Irregardless of what I say or do not say publicly or privately, what he told me that day has carried itself along with me playing a large role in the decisions that I make.</p>
<p>As previous experiences in classroom performance, comparisons in achievement between myself and peers, performance in standardized tests and in the outcomes in the application process, I may improve, but may never be successful to the absolute level to my satisfaction: it is unquestionable; however, that I will be diligent and unflinching in the pursuit and eventual outcome in being the man of what my father expects of what I expect.</p>