A Day in My Life Essay

When I was two my parents separated and then got divorced soon after. I can remember being at home with my mom and my bother at night and we were all getting ready to go out to the pool to go in the hot tub. My dad came back to the house to get something and my mom asked him if he wanted to go swimming with us and then they started fighting. My brother and I went into our room and we didn’t get to go swimming. I have very few memories from being in preschool so I am sure that this is my earliest…

of Induction Day at the United States Naval Academy, I can only piece together small clearings in the fog. It was a whirlwind of activity and heat and fog. My brother was a second-class midshipman at the time which gave me a false sense of confidence for what was to come. My day began at 0530 on the morning of July 1, 2014. I put on my “Don’t give up the ship” t-shirt (which turned out to be a mistake as a slew of jokes were made on my behalf during the issuing of all the gear), said my…

break down my life into three categories: The Beginning, Tough Times, and Better Days. The Beginning will be important events that I remember from ages 10-15. Tough Times will be about one major event that changed me as a person between 15 and 16. Better Days will be important events that have happened to me within the last year. The beginning is about significant events that happened to shape me as a person (baptism, bullying, school changes, and buying my horse). Tough Times is about when my…

there yet?” is the text message my mom received from me for over two consecutive months. My mom works close to home and would take her lunch break the same time every day. During her lunch break was also the same time the Karen, the mail women would drop off the mail. Since I knew that the mail was dropped off, I knew I would not be able to concentrate for the rest of the school day not knowing if my acceptance or denial letter was sitting at home. Finally, one day the response to the text…

Have you ever loved someone who does absolutely nothing for you and makes your life much harder than it once was? Well, I do, and I think most parents would agree with me. Through all the screaming, crying, peeing, pooping, and sleepless nights I can still say with one hundred percent certainty that I still love my son. I don 't believe there is anything that he can do to make me stop loving him. The unconditional love between a parent and a child, I believe is sacred and almost primal in…

topics that I wasn’t aware of before. Additionally, this class opened my eyes to certain behaviors I exhibit in my own life. Psychology in my opinion is one of the most powerful subject/concept in our lives. The reason I say this is because everything we do, everything we say and how we act all correlates with psychology and how our mind works. Throughout the semester I learned quite a few different topics that I can relate to my life. A couple of them are how are dreams formulate, what phantom…

I wrote down the most tragic thing to ever happen to me in my diary when I was only nine years old. I had been home alone with my ninety-year-old great grandmother, who I called Juju, for the night while my grandmother and aunt went to a business dinner. She told me she was going to bed so I decided to watch television in the living room on the other side of the house. As the night went on, I heard this weird, eerie, tapping noise and I couldn’t figure out where it was coming from. I was scared…

our community. In my life, the word passion is characterized by the love of my family, the outstanding culinary arts program in my high school, and the belief of my religion. The love of my family is a key quality in my definition of passion. As you grow older, the love for anything extends more because you are capable of understanding things more. In my early childhood, I was in a scary accident that could have had me killed at young age; Christmas Eve in the year 2004 was…

objects in the short 16 years of my life from a shiny, pristine, and lightning fast bike to stylish Nike running shoes to a flat-screen HDTV, but few objects have ever truly transcended the line of being an object to being a "thing". Bill Brown's explanation of what makes an object a "thing" would be something that had a profound impact or some major significance in someone's life, in this case my own. That being said, the Holy Grail of "things" in my life would be my PlayStation 4 due to the…

and I am dreading the sound of my alarm going off. A sick sensation of guilt over and hate overwhelm me, and the only thought coming to my head is "wow, I really wish time would freeze." It feels like the longest three minutes of life and, I am in heaven and close my eyes hoping that I never have to get up. But, soon enough, I hear the screeching sound of some stupid Fall Out Boy song and know that I must face the day. I swing out of my bed some 17 minutes after my initial alarm and stare in…