8. If you were to describe yourself using a quotation, what would that quotation be? After you have chosen a quote, then write a bit about how it relates to you and reveals what kind of person you are.

"Be the change you want to see in the world."
This quote relates to me because I think of it in many of my situations for example, when choosing a career.
Special-ed children and teenagers should be treated with more consideration and patience than the rest of the students because despite how old they look, their brain is that of a childs. Many teachers I have come across don't have the patience necessary meaning they are providing a scary and sometimes dismal experience for the special-ed students. The only way this will ameliorate with a 100% garantee is if I go into the career myself. I feel that I understand these kids more than some teachers now and I have a cousin that suffers from mental retardation disorder and syndromic mental retardation. This refers to the quote I cited because I would be the change I want to see in the world and taking into consideration a special-ed teacher career shows how passionate I am about wanting the change.

9. Given the authority to establish a holiday, what would you choose to commemorate? Why? What would the celebration look like?

If I could choose to establish a holiday, I would commemorate July 2nd, the day that segregation in America ended in the workplace and public accomodations, into a holiday. It's such a huge and significant day in the timeline of historic dates that I can't underscore it enough! It completely changed the future in America for the best. It illustrates morals and it conveys the message that all of us on the world are equal. We are here to help one another not insult and certainly not enslave. America now has to set that example with our countrys' power. If this could be a holiday it would be celebrated with free bus rides for everyone and the act of kindness to one another. A free bus ride would illuminate the harsh years when african-american people had to sit at the back of buses or even give their seat up for pure cruelty. On this holiday it would also be expected of people to have consideration towards our society and ponder over segregations' miserable works. This holiday would lead to people joining the imaginary revolution against racism which still exists to this day due to insufficient of our humanity not comprehending the reality that we are all equal.

10. What is the best adivce you've ever received? Explain.

Teenagers often complain about all the life lessons parents stress. In this case, its the antithesis! My mom constantly stops to give me a side note of advice relevant to what our conversations are about. She always said not to fall for the pressure other ignorant people might give me because they don't know what's wrong and right but I do. I have the power to make my own decisions and the knowledge to make smart ones that will get me on the right path. I learned that the people who have to pressure someone into doing something is because they feel alone, subconsiously or not. If someone is proud in what they do then they can stand up for it by themselves. Thanks to her advice, it doesn't affect me when people try to pressure me because it doesn't work, I'm not influenced easily by negative ideas. I will continue to spread this valuable advice to my friends, people who need it, and family.

11. Ask and answer the one important question that a university won't ask you, but you wish they would.

How hard did you work to get here?
If colleges knew how hard some people worked to get to there and if they had any personal struggles interferring with their journey and still overcame them, I'm sure the acceptance rate would double. No one knows how hard some people work. Luckily, many become stronger along the way and so does their determination making the situation to be a "win-win". I obtained horrible grades my freshmen year of highschool that I'm ashamed of but quickly learned to put conflicts irrelevant to school out of the way. But I still struggled to get homework done due to lack of time and switching homes every other week. Being in sports year round cuts your free time especially if you practice on weekends because sports is also one of your priorities. It's easier when practice is right after school so when it's over you just go home and start your homework, but I've had practice at 5 pm even 7pm on some seasons and sometimes I can't go home because i live too far and don't have transportation. My next reason has been tremendously vexatious but did teach me responsibility, often when I switched parents' houses (they're divorced) I would forget my materials needed to do my homework. I have 2 binders, 4 notebooks, 1 portfolio, and 1 textbook needed every week so they're hard to keep track of. I wish colleges and universities did ask how hard I worked because then I would tell them all I've wrote and I would add that I still learned to keep all of my priorities balanced, such as school, family, friends, and sports even with family problems, distractions, sports practice, and personal struggles. Because who said being a teenager was easy?

12. Your life is a movie. Describe the first 15 minutes.

The scene starts out on the first day of highschool, that's when my life begun. A slender, nervous, girl walks up to the crowded wall of posters with the name and first period on it. She gets shoved several times and almost drops her books, you can tell she's not used to that many people. Her friend is spotted in the distance and Margaret power walks to her, excited to see her. Their friendship is like puppy love, not entirely real. The conversations are insipid and they slowly start to seperate, each going to different sides of the school just like their friendship. At first Margaret has a dismally sentimental attitude towards losing her best friend but throughout the highschool years she makes new friends. Junior year you see her struggling with grades because of slacking off during freshmen year but you also see her with the beloved best friends she's ever had. This is shown during the first fifteen minutes of her movie and is the backround information. The story proceeds to display all the adventures, conflicts, and friendships Margaret has during the rest of highschool and college and what they teach her about life.

13. Write a letter to your future college roommate introducing yourself and your background.

Dear future roommate,
my name is Margaret, I'm 16, and I'm from here in San Diego.  I know it sounds a bit odd to be living on campus if my home is not far away but it's a great oppurtunity to experience life by myself. I know my parents aren't always going to be abe to help me when I'm in trouble so I hope to learn how to fend for myself. My parents are both from Mexico, but different cities, and they met when they moved here to the United States. I'm both grateful and relieved that I was born and raised here because of the oppurtunities I've been given and will take. For example, my education is a huge gift from the U.S and I won't throw that away. You'll probaby find me stressing and worrying sometimes over my grades but I won't always be that way so don't worry. I like to free myself and clear my mind by playing sports and other doing other activities you might enjoy. I hope you and i share similar hobbies. I like to play volleyball, basketball, soccer, and even football. I also like watching sports, it's so entertaining and suspenful and you probably like it too so we'll have bunches of fun during the years. I'm really looking forward to meeting you,
-Margaret Atwood

14. Please describe your reactions/ideas to the following quote: "He does not possess wealth, it possesses him."

My reaction to the quote is that it's amazingly precise and my ideas are that when peope acquire money, especially in large amounts, they become carried away with it and lose meaning of anything other than materials. Their life begins to revolve around only materials and what it takes to get them, losing control. Wealth manipulates the person to extreme limits to gain money and material things and often the people lose themselves. They are no longer able to control themselves because, "it possesses him". Greed consumes them along with their life leading to one of the worlds' biggest flaws, corruption. This quote illustrates how harmful wealth can be to human kind. Thousands of people lose sight of morals and actual happiness but the worst part is most of these people are the ones that we rely on to be unbiased and make the correct choices in order to flourish as countries. Unfortunately, we have lost most of our people to wealth.