Kigaz Wrote:Leadership=a class available at my school for Juniors/Seniors where you basically pretty much do nothing. Well you do stuff like help with organization of events at school, etc etc. You have to write an essay on WHY you MUST be in Leadership.
Sounds fantastic. Just for humors sake, can you please tell us why you need to be in this club? Is it because you want to add another notch on your resume so you have a higher chance of getting into an Ivy League school? Because if you pretty much do nothing, there's a thousand other ways to show community service besides being a member of some cheesy student government club.
Kigaz Wrote:Some people figure out what they want to do with their life at an early age. I thought I was one of those people. My father is a doctor so I figured I, too, would be a doctor. But as life went on I wasn't content with being just a doctor. I wanted to do other things.
The HELL? You're already thinking about future professions this early? Have you already had a mid-life crisis? Do you have a wife and kids? Are you already a father? So let's see what "other things" you wanted to do...
Kigaz Wrote:In the eight grade I realized I had some natural gift for politics and history.
My dear Kigaz. When science majors at any University get axed by Organic Chemistry, a majority of them go into politics or history majors. You usually never hear about a politics/history major getting axed by "Socratic Literature" and suddenly choosing to become a science major.
Kigaz Wrote:I wasn't able to figure out what it was about me that just knew things happening in our society, and to be honest I still do not know.
You don't know how you gained these incredible super powers to read the news, to browse the BBC, to read the New York Times, to talk to your friends, or to mingle with your teachers? Kigaz, it all stems from the heart of the cards.
Kigaz Wrote:After that point in my life I had decided to do something in politics, but I also didn't want to disappoint my family and myself and not follow my father's footsteps.
Dear whoever is reading this. I am not ready to stand up for myself yet. I still have to follow my parents and the direction they show me in life. I'm just a confused teenager who loves his parents and tries to make it through my classes like everyone else.
Kigaz Wrote:I was at a crossroads and did not know which path to take. It wasn't till my short lived life in AP European History that I discovered what a Renaissance man was.
HOLY CRAP. YOU HAD TO LEARN THAT IN AP EURO? What the hell is wrong with the K-12 education system these days? Holy crap!
Kigaz Wrote:I figured I could be a doctor and a politician. I could do the two passions in my life. Politics and medicine might seem like two completely different careers but they share two distinct similarities. They both help the communities they work in and they both require leadership skills.
Yes, yes. Lawyers help themselves by suing doctors and shoving high premiums down their necks while doctors have to bend over and pay high malpractice bills. It's not enough that doctors throw away the best years of their life and get out when they're 35 just in order to SAVE PEOPLE. Now doctors make too much damn money that everyone has to get a piece of them. Any job could theoretically help other people. Doctors just get shafted because there are so many litigators out there due to all the political science retards that go to law school that they need some way to make money in this stagnant economy. Lawyers go into politics and shaft on doctors even more. Obama is a clear case as his plans to cut down on six figure incomes in order to help the less privileged directly cut into doctors paychecks: paychecks that were discovered because time, sweat, and blood were devoted in this enterprise. And the HMOs prevent us from saving people by telling us that certain patients are "too expensive to care for" and are "lost causes." They cut into doctor's finances AND prevent us from saving people. Honestly, what's up with that crap?
And politicians are too busy bending the law backwards to even care what the ramifications are for the public. Help the community my ass. I demand a goddamn bailout. I honestly crap out $700 billion whenever I need to. Because I'm a politician.
Kigaz Wrote:Both demand the questioning of the choices they make. Both require making hard decisions while under pressure. Skills such as these are ones that should be learned early in life...
There are no hard decisions to make in politics. You just sniff the other guys ass and he sniffs yours. Hey let's do some "pork-barrel legislation." Let's do some "log-roll" voting. Don't like the fact that the other party has the advantage, waste their time with a goddamn filibuster.
Kigaz Wrote:...And that is all I got. I don't really know how to end it. I figure that is a good place to end the essay. Any suggestions?
It's not that bad for high school. Since everyone will write stuff similar in nature.
My Actual Advice
1. How competitive is it to garner these leadership positions? If they're very hard to get into, then you have to show that you've walked the walk instead of just talking about greater complex issues that are beyond you, me, and our whole system of bureaucratic money-pushing.
2. Are you being yourself when you type this? Do you feel this accurately represents who you are? Or is this fluff?
3. It's tough doing stuff since you're still very young. But humility and honesty never hurt anyone. It helped me to get my job and even scholarships to be debt free.