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School Letter

11/30/2021

Dear Admissions Committee,

I am a fifteen-year-old boy who is supposed to describe three qualities and my experiences with them in my life. I haven’t really lived long enough on this so-called place earth compared to my sixty-three year old english teacher, so we will see how this goes. Throughout my life I have found that working hard makes you satisfied , overcoming failure makes you try harder and being resilient helps you cope with trauma. These aspects of life are most important to me and I try to live them out everyday.

Work hard and amazing things will happen. This just isn’t a slogan; It is me. It is the gravity of my world. I don’t want to work hard. I just do. Late last week. I realised my winter concert was next week. I hadn’t even started learning the music. I worked for hours. By the end of the night, I only learned three pages. I wanted to quit and give up, but I realized if I don’t work hard and finish this, I won’t be satisfied with the end result—or with myself.

You will fail, it is going to happen. I fail a lot, it sucks.  The sun was shining in my face and I was staring into the pitcher's eyes. It was a two and two count and I was the winning run. The ball was zipping towards the plate and I swung and missed to lose the game. This was one of the worst feelings of my life and I let my team down. This experience showed me that we aren’t perfect. We all will fail many times in life. Failure causes us to work harder and strive to be better.

Resilience is what we all need right now. I was laying in my bed staring at the ceiling. My sister, I have always wondered what life would be like with her here. This thought keeps me up at night for hours and it can be really difficult from time to time. I was too young to be impacted by her death and I never really understood what happened. As I got older I finally understood what happened. Resilience helped me cope with her death and made me look towards better things ahead. To look at the light at the end of the tunnel. 

It you don’t live what you believe then you don’t really live 

Sincerely,

Aiden LaCamera

November 30, 2021



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