Personal Essay for Ateneo

Weird. It's my first time to write an essay for a school application. Harhar. This is for the Ateneo, my dream school. Hanggang dreams na lang talaga ata ako. ((:

And also, it's my first time to post something sensible here in my blogger. But somehow, it's not that sensible because my essay is not that sensible. Hahaha. DUH. Okay. So maybe this post shouldn't be described as sensible, rather significant. Hoooe. :D

PERSONAL ESSAY pa?!

Are there any significant experiences you have had, or accomplishments you have realized, that helped to define you as a person?

Tick, tock, tick, tock. Time is fleeting by. Minutes, maybe hours, have passed since I first read the question they want me to answer- Are there any significant experiences you have had, or accomplishments you have realized, that helped you to define you as a person? The question took its toll on me. It made me think hard. It made me reminisce every happening in my life.

Tick, tock, tick, tock. Time is fleeting by. Minutes have passed since I typed down my first paragraph for this essay. Just a few minutes of innate thinking made me realized a lifetime-worth of insights. And now, I’m ready to answer their question properly-

Yes. Of course, yes! All experiences of every second of my knotty life helped me define myself of what I am now. Every experience, no matter how trivial or immense they are, is significant to me and to my life. I would be a different person- I wouldn’t be the Marya Vlansce Claodine C. Espiritu now if it weren’t for those things.

Growing up and stepping on to milestones along the way made me uncover the exquisite endowments that life has to offer to us. I tried everything that can be tried; I did all that can be done. I make sure that I take a hold on each and every opportunity that meets me while taking down the road to success so as not to have regrets in the end.

I did all that can be done and because I did so, I have discovered and enhanced my God-given talents. My circle of influences drastically brought me to be drawn against new things. I was into drawing and painting during my pre-elementary years. Enjoying that flair, I joined art contests in my school, St. Therese Child Development Center(STCDC) now, St. Therese Child Development Center Foundation Incorporated. That school gave way, not only to my artistic side but also to my musical side. I joined the chorale of the said school. I excelled in our class. I had great teachers and friends. Who could have asked for more? Things may be getting well for me there but eventually I had to transfer to Sto. Niño SPED Center (SNSC), a public school, should I need to say more. No tuition fees means not a bit of problem to my parents.

My life in SNSC was too different to that in my previous school. Well, obviously, it’s because that my previous school was a private one. We had books; we need not copy lengthy notes and we had better facilities there. No one is to be blamed of course; After all, not everything we want can be in our control.

Even so, I accepted the fate of staying in a different kind of school for three school years. And for those three latter years of my elementary life, I had made me a better person than I was before. SNSC introduced me to dance and drama clubs, scouting movements, religious and environmental organizations, and to students who are way better than me- students who have been bestowed with greater capabilities than me. Staying with them, I was challenged to strive for more. Consequently, I gained self-confidence and more opportunities for myself. I learned things that can’t be taught by any guru or experiences but schooling in Sto. Niño SPED Center. SNSC educated me with a higher learning curriculum and trained me to be prepared for high school. And thus, I entered high school with certainty.

Furthermore, high school- the best part of student life as they say made me socially aware and emotionally mature. Meeting different people with different cultures taught me to be open-minded and selfless. I enjoyed sharing my flairs which I owe to our magnificent God and to my trainers, my family, STCDC and SNSC. I became a join-all-of-the-school-and-even-outside-the-school-clubs type of person. I was elected as a representative of the year level when I was in my junior year and was also recognized as a photojournalist of our school publication; these were my most wanted desires this high school. I managed to balance them, including my other minor school clubs like the Debate Society, with my academics and whenever I think back to how I reached my senior year in high school, I cannot help but smile and be proud of myself; despite everything- the frenzied schedule, the gruesome horde of school work and the pressure from people around me, I made it.

I could have blabbed, enumerated and flaunted everything I achieved since my lowest education attainment up to the present. I would have dug up every award and every recognition I received from Leyte National High School and outside our school but I declined to do so. Why? Because I strongly believe that I was not or cannot be inclusively defined by those achievements other than by the slow strides I made and the lessons that these experiences have cultured on me.

These achievements were just some minor causes of why I am like this now. If there is a notable cause of what I have become today, it will be my eminent outlook towards opportunities and success. I want to be what I am meant to be. I know it takes courage to grow up, to discern more gifts from God and to become who I am and who I am meant to be but I’ve got something up my sleeves, thanks to the best and better mentors- God and experience, respectively, I know I can do it.

Oh well. This is uber crammed. LOL.My english teacher checked it. She said it was okay. No further comments. Haaay. Lousy essay. If I pass out of sheer luck, I know I'll be placed in their Basic English class. Err. Hahaha. Okay lang basta maka-pass. Wahaha. ((: