My Desire to Be the Best

Bill Gates once said, “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” And while I do enjoy ‘[celebrating my] success’, I always make sure that I address my wrongdoings first and overcome them as soon as possible. Throughout my life I have overcome several challenges, yet I continue to earn stellar grades and am currently at the top of my class. I deserve this scholarship because I have the strength and determination to attain my dreams, no matter what gets in my way.

Growing up, I was always passionate about being the best I could be. In school, that meant reading above my grade level. At home, that meant being the glue for a slowly dissolving marriage. I had to do whatever I could to keep my parents together for as long as possible. However, as with most battles, I lost mine. My parents divorced and I saw my perfect family disappear before my eyes.

For my brother, that resulted in a drastic decline in grades. For me, that meant that I had to truly be the best student possible. From then on, getting straight A’s and tutoring others was my normal.

As I entered high school, I was determined to try out a variety of clubs. FFA initially caught my interest and allowed me to discover my dream career: engineering. While attending the State FFA Convention I met a paper engineering professor. She showed me a piece of laminate flooring and told me that paper engineers were responsible for making it.

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While that may seem boring to most teens, it was incredibly interesting to me and confirmed my suspicion: I wanted to be an engineer.

Once I entered into my junior year I knew that I needed to get a head start on my engineering career. Therefore, I decided to begin a college pathway and join Upward Bound. Through the program I have taken part in an internship at Jacob’s Engineering and participated in a cultural enrichment trip, which allowed me to gain insight on the college admissions process.

As I begin my senior year, I am working to finish the final three classes of my pre-associate’s in science pathway. I have completed a total of eight college courses thus far and hope to complete many more throughout high school. As a female entering the engineering field, I am certainly in the minority. This endowment will bring me one step closer to changing that though.

Why do I deserve this scholarship? Because I have the determination that the engineering community truly needs. With my education, I can engineer new processes that will give future generations the best chance at living a happy life on Earth. This scholarship will not only get me through college, but it will also allow engineering to evolve further than ever before. I appreciate the consideration and I hope to one day be able to say that I earned a scholarship from the Mensa Foundation.