I have a scholarship essay emergency

I have 5 scholarship essays due by the end of the month and I am horrible with proper grammar so even if I check it myself I don't know if it would even matter could someone read them and help me out? I'll post one at a time unless you want me to post them all. The first one is the messiest and biggest I'll post that one first.


Academy Scholarship Application



One of the many talents I possess, that I think would qualify me, for the Academy, is drive. Drive is something a lot of people who game lack, when it comes to actually knuckling up, and working, rather than just playing games. I’ve dealt with this problem for many years, not as a gamer, but as someone dealing with that brand of people. Dreams are my drive, I have many dreams that I need to accomplish. That is my fuel and motivation that keep toiling towards my goals. I’ve overcome many shortcomings within those challenging times and it shows, how I respond to other challenges.

When I was a growing up I was an only child in a fairly large community. I lived right on the edge of town with no peers, and only older citizens. So when I got my first game system when I was five, I invested a lot of time playing video games. Much to my parent’s dismay, I constantly played my game system, and it only fueled my desire for them. So much so was my passion, that even when I couldn’t play materialistically, I had gaming magazines and would imagine the characters traversing through the levels. (Back then Nintendo power magazine had full page spreads of the complete levels). Since I couldn’t bring my magazines to school, I started to think up my own ideas for creating games, therefore drawing my ideas in class. At that time wasting time, drawing. wasn’t much of a problem I only knew pixel art and of course, didn’t think of Art majoring back then, for I didn’t have that inspiration back then. Even when I got my Super Nintendo, I played games more than drew.

After a while my parents, began to worry about my attention span and took me to a specialist. There I was diagnosed with ADHD. This was during the times, when every afflicted child was diagnosed as such, and given Ritalin to calm them down. I was calmer but still had my passion for games. Eventually I met my best friend in middle school (a squirrelly, freckle faced kid, named Nick) through him I gained a new drive towards my artistic abilities. We “created” our own games and talked about them in and out of class. We talked about what our characters would do in certain situations, and how they would interact with one another. He introduced me to things, such as Final Fantasy and Dungeons and Dragons, through that, I met more friends who would become my best friends through middle school.

My grades however, started to waver. I was struggling. I understood everything I was learning, yet I had troubles concentrating on homework. Doctors prescribed more exotic versions of Ritalin. To this day I can name around ten different medications I was tried on; one of which was even giving me seizures. Those times weren’t exactly fun to me, yet my creations kept me trudging towards my dreams.

I remember when I played my first polygon-based game. I was so amazed when I first played Final Fantasy 7. I rented a Playstation from one of the local video stores. My mother and I, as well as others were amazed by the opening cut scene. I was in High School when I had heard about the game. Nick commented he would lend me it when I had something to play it on. It inspired me so much that I saved up my allowances, to get my own Playstation. After that experience I started creating new characters. Yet, this time, whenever I had spare time, I would draw every moment I had. I became enthralled by the Japanese culture. One of my new friends Steve, had been showing me anime and I was adapting my own style, from comics books and Japanese art styles of the time. I drew out new game one which over 15 people would come to me and collaborate. I created my own world, which I still have the original map of. I created a culture, villains, ideas all my own. It wasn’t extremely polished; alas it was still something that caught everyone’s interest. That project still exists today, ten years later. My dream is to bring that game into fruition.

In High School, I struggled more with my academics. It was clear the medications weren’t aiding me, and upping the dose weren’t the answer. I eventually started going to a therapist, trying to figure out what was going on. To alleviate things I ended up going to home schooling for a while. I did alright but I didn’t want to end up with a GED. So I joined the Alternative School Program, where I continued my course studies and earned my HSED, graduating with honors. During this time, I discovered the reason why I was having so many problems. I was misdiagnosed with ADHD. My true diagnosis was ‘Aspergers Syndrome’ (high functioning autism). I didn’t know what this meant though, and proceeded from Alternative school to a two year university taking on a full course load of classes. I didn’t have a full understanding of the events in my life, I also didn’t do well with my education, and decided to pull away for a while and figure out how to deal with my problems.

I eventually discovered during these that a lot of Aspergers Syndrome has to do with focus. I found out, that as long as I directed my focus towards the right things I could accomplish a lot of things. I also learned that it helped me build a basic understanding on quite a few things. I unconsciously paid attention more to what was going on around me. For instance a normal person would look at a soda can, and see a can of soda. I noticed I was internally asking myself questions while I looked at things, why does the soda have fizz? Why does the can have the lip around the edge? How did they seal the can, and how does the pull tab work. I started to train myself more and more to use that ability, rather than just shrug it off. Learning more about it empowered me to figure out how to shift it to my advantage. I also discovered the billionaire Bill Gates has Aspergers Syndrome.

After a while I slowly weaned myself off the medications, and went back to college doing a more structured course load, focusing on classes that I could relate to. I held a full time job with Wal-mart during my first semester. I worked full time during the night while doing full time at school during the day. Afterwards I decided to continue with school and went onto another semester focusing on bringing up my 0 GPA (due to my first semester three years prior). I also joined the student council and learned what it meant to be part of a university. I participated in a student summit in through the student council. I also was part of the theater class, and helped make one of the centerpieces for the Christmas play they held annually.

For my second semester, I formed a video game in tech club called “Monkey Grip” were participated in helping improve the TV room through donations and funds we got from the school. Formerly, it had one TV with missing buttons. The tech rooms were also being remodeled and with it they gave us two 26 inch Sony Trinitrons and a 56 inch projection TV as donations. We also received a DVD player and surround sound system. I was the class president for two semesters taking on the responsibility of finding people to join, and arrange events. Events mostly consisting of arranging tournaments and gathering equipment from people who had old systems in which they could spare. I also learned a lot from various members, about how video games work, and a basic understanding for some of the smaller details. During that time I was also part of the Campus Activities Board as well, as The Crew volunteer group.

I finished two years at UW Marinette accomplishing my goal at the school recovering from a 0 GPA and bringing it to a 3.5 making it onto the Deans list. I’ve overcome a lot over the years. Having done my best, overcoming and learning from each obstacle, toiling to make my goals come true. I will undoubtedly accomplish my dream with IADT I have experience, on my side and the ability to use my disadvantages to my advantage, and make them my strengths. I will not falter achieving my dreams.