Scholarship Essay!!!!
I’d like to start by saying I’m very glad I got 100% on this assignment on the first try. I spent a lot of time editing and I’m happy that it paid off. I wasn’t very confident with my rough draft, so I’m glad I cleaned it up enough to get a good grade.
The hardest part of writing the scholarship essay was eliminating the clutter. I highlighted the clutter, removed it, found more clutter, removed that, and repeated the process until most of the clutter was destroyed. It was a very time consuming process. Finding ways to rearrange sentences was difficult, and it was hard to remove clutter while keeping my voice alive in the writing. Maybe the point was to make the writing less personal, but I like having style in my writing. It was hard to make the writing flow in a style that wasn’t my own. Another hard part of the essay was the anecdote. I thought of my anecdote quickly, but it was hard to make the anecdote detailed enough to be memorable but short enough to fit on my page. I felt like I kept going back and forth with too much detail and not enough detail. It was also a struggle to write my anecdote without writing a sob story. I had to keep going back and cutting out details to keep it authentic without the sadness. I’m happy with how the essay turned out, even though the clutter and the anecdote made the essay frustrating to write and edit.
In the future, I want to go to college and get my pilot’s license. I am debating between going to college for aviation or music. I’m really interested in commercial aviation and air traffic control, but music has been a big part of my life for a long time. I love them both, which makes it hard to decide what to do for college. In my essay, I didn’t mention either of those interests in depth (to eliminate clutter), but I might add them to my essay later to make it more personal. After finishing the scholarship essay, I feel very relieved and prepared. I’m so glad I have an essay that I can use for scholarships so I won’t have to do as much work later in the year. The preparation we did for the essay makes me feel like I have a good chance of receiving scholarship money, and I feel like I am a few steps ahead of other students.
Overall, editing the essay to make it perfect was hard, but I’m glad I have it on hand for when I need it. Here is a link to my essay:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kl6oV_qbkZZ2EpXBq-Eu_8DFufuAjophiCkL5oBTUqg/edit?usp=sharing
And here’s a link to the graphic organizer:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VM_XFzrv-SrP1A0jSFtHs_TTxvn5tFAzuF7yzv70cZw/edit?usp=sharing
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