college essay- creative- revised

Rebekah Barrasso

A Legal Adult at age 16

I've put a lot of thought into what my essay should say about me. I could have told you how I'm from a large family, and when i say large, I mean it ...there's 63 of us including aunts, uncles and cousins. Or i could tell you about my love for the holidays and my family's traditions that makes my heart warm thinking about all the memories. This essay will tell you about me as a person not just one of the Barrasso's.

At the age of sixteen I was a legal adult. Eighteen years old to be exact, well at least that's what my id said I was. I hit the club scene pretty young, but no one ever knew i should have been home playing with my friends instead of out dancing all night until 2 a.m. But my friends were older and I looked older. And then came my first opportunity to work were i loved to be. I started out as a coat room girl and that opened the door for me to be a bouncer and now I'm a bartender. This is were I learned how to prioritize my responsibilities.

Most people don't see anything good coming from growing up fast. I can tell you a different story. I started my freshman year of high school not caring about my grades and i didn't have any goals. By sophomore year i was still making good money, doing what I love best but still not too excited about getting up everyday to go to school, a place that I thought was boring. I didn't see any point in going, I was making money so why did I need to graduate?

Working in the club scene your "career life span" isn't long as you would think. Don't get me wrong, the money is great, by 16 I had a bigger bank account than some adults i knew. That's what made me hold a higher standards for what I consider an acceptable income. At the club that can only be achieved for a short time. I needed a career goal. I wanted more in life. My fiend's had to race the clock of the "career lifespan" in the club, and I have seen many fail. In the end they had no direction, goals and no idea were to go from there. I had other plans. I can still do what I love on the weekends but i needed a career. Everything fell into place my junior year. School became my top priority. I wanted to graduate. I wanted that diploma. I wanted to go to college.

If you're wondering what and how I could have possibly learned in the club scene a lot. I got to learn money skills and responsibility that I might not have realized otherwise until I was older. The lesson was put right in front of me, some might not have seen the examples that I learned from. It helped me figure out what I needed to do to get to were i wanted to be, some kids don't learn this even years after they graduate high school. I won't settle for an apple when I can get the entire orchard, Because I've always lived years beyond my age, that hasn't stopped now that I'm 18, as always I'm looking a few years ahead.