Discuss a cultural, social, political, or intellectual topic that you have explored beyond school and explain how it has shaped who

Discuss a cultural, social, political, or intellectual topic that you have explored beyond school and explain how it has shaped who

It is 11: OO pm on a Friday night, the time when most teenagers my age are out partying. You do probably ask why I wasn't out partying too. But you do probably make a plausible guess that I am writing to the admissions officer at the Georgia Institute of Technology hoping I belong to the lucky few that would be admitted. But then, I ask myself why should I aim for the best? Why should I go to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology? After a few minutes of deep thinking, I discover the answer to this very straight forward question, my family. I guess it's just the way things are run and done in my family. I guess I learn t involuntarily how my parents organized their life, the enthusiasm with which they worked , how they learned to set their priorities right and how they learnt to paint the big picture and how my family strive to be the "best".
As I grew up, I do remember how I had to work for everything I desired either by running errands or by doing something extraordinary at school. My father ensured that I worked for everything. I guess this motivation to hard work finally rubbed on me. I became so enthusiastic for success and could work so hard for it. Now, I noticed that I was not the only one whose hunger to become the "best" grew, my siblings also wanted to be the "best". I guess hard work was one of the things that encompassed our essence; it made us different from any other family
I do remember growing up, always having to write my aims for every school year and then coming to my father at the end of each school year to review my aims and to question me on the reason why I didn't achieve the ones I did not achieve and to congratulate me on the ones I did achieve. This habit, which I think is hereditary, was employed in every aspect of my life. I began to make aims both long term and short term, hard and easy. It was something that I thought was normal, something everybody in my family did. It became who I was, the foundation of my character, my...