I am an incoming freshman at the Pennsylvania State University. I applied to around 12 large universities. Besides the fact that I was interested in a large university, I wanted to study nutrition and wellness along with fitness and many of the universities that offers these programs as majors are large universities with many sub categories of what I was interested in for minors as well.

It’s 7:30pm on a Thusrday night and I am on my way home to what unknowingly would be the end of my normal life. The mature, selfless, and independent woman who is writing this essay is a product of one fateful night in eighth grade. Not only was this the night my dad told me he and my mom were getting a divorce that never happend, it was a night that my thirteen year old self had to change...

When I describe future career plans to peers or adults in my life, they are usually impressed by my interest or by the fact that I have known what I want to do for a while. In a general sense, I want to help people change and transform their lives. Being interested in health and nutrition is very personal because I was able to transform my life the summer before my sophomore year. I was not very athletic and during...

I chose schools based off the majors they offered in what I was interested in. That gave me an extensive list of large...