<p>Thank you!!!!!</p>
<p>Its tempting to write a classic application essay, describing some arbitrary moment of success. But really there isnt any one instant that I feel defines me completely, and ultimately thats what Id like to do. Im more or less the sum of all my moments in high school, and completely different than where I began. As a freshman I was just awkward. My extra-curriculars reflect it, I was absolutely uninvolved, unhappy, and scholastically average too. I adore my family, but my mother didnt allow me to participate in any sports as a child, and after moving to live with my father, who travels most of the week, I was basically alone and just drifting along. It wasnt until sophomore year that I realized that I might have been selling myself short; about mid-year in AP US History I finished an eighty-question test in about twenty minutes. When I turned it in a few other students called out Christmas tree! assuming I had just forsaken the quiz, so my teacher graded it right then, and with a rather confused look declared that I had gotten a ninety-two. My grades were still underwhelming for where I realize now they could have been, but around the middle of my high school experience I began growing more confident, trying out several different sports and clubs. Last year Im happy to say I buckled down and actually pushed myself for the first time. While my math teacher refused to recommend it, I got an override form so I could take AP Statistics, and ended up with a 5 on the exam. On a completely random whim, I joined the girls lacrosse team, and found myself starting as we went undefeated in the county. It wasnt always a smooth journey, and Im still not always successful, for instance junior year I ran for student government treasurer, to an unexpected loss. However I know that I never would have even attempted something so daunting three years ago. Sometimes I wish that I had known what to do with myself from the beginning or had tiger parents that pushed me to my full potential, but in the end I think my confidence comes from the fact that Ive found myself independently. Ive been the slacker, the disinterested, and the struggling, but Im not anymore. Ive had so much fun in high school, and I wouldnt trade my weird, rocky, up-sloping path through it for anything. Its not going to stop either, and I hope to continue my stumbling through the unknown, finding new strengths and passions, at an amazing university next year.</p>