My College Essay

From Black to Light by Ogechi Nwaogu

Black is what I see. When I look around it's all there is. Then they come. They fill the spaces. They are everywhere around me. Hitting me. Passing me. Existing within me. They entice me. They fascinate me.

This is what I live for. The opportunity to do more. I dream of ways to save a nation with these thoughts. The blackness is constantly being filled with ideas. I wish to share, but these thoughts are too strong to express.

Where do I go from here? I can't just save the world in a day. Even Moses didn't walk the world in one day. He saw that he had to see it all. I want to see this world, all of it, with my own eyes. I want this world to see me, to hear me and what I have to say because there is so much.

I want to be somebody beyond who I am today. I want to contribute to the saving of our nation, not to stop global warming, or the ongoing war, neither to ask for the clichéd term of "world peace", but to bring it with no ulterior motives in mind.

I won't do it for the money or for the fame. I will do it to save the next generation and give them a proper lesson on what our world should be because that is far from what it is today.

It is said that there is a one out of a million chance that anything is possible and that you or I are not that one, but I say that we are all that one, like on the show "One Tree Hill" when Brooke said that she was that one out of million person that was going to become a world known fashion designer, when her own mother tried to put her down by telling her that she wasn't that one, but she was.

See, I'm a person just like everyone else. I can stay awake up to one o'clock in the morning watching TV. I love to watch the show "Numb3rs" because it is Charlie in the show that has inspired me to do what I once would have called the impossible. He has shown me that the flying objects through the blackness can be incorporated into everyday life.

These people, Brooke (Sophia Bush) and Charlie (David Krumholtz) didn't initially set out to make a difference with the script that was given to them, but they have made one to me. If I can make even this slight attempt to change the world, so can anyone else. That is what I want to set out to inspire. I want to "pay it forward" to the world because the movie "Pay it Forward”, paid it forward to me by giving me hope for what I once thought was a fallen nation.

In what was once black, it is now bright with no longer numbers alone. My mind is no longer black. It is now filled with flying ideas of numbers and words to inspire those who so strongly look for a sign of hope like the one I found or to inspire those who have lost all hope and to give them the assurance that I will be there to restore their faith in all things, but first hope.

As an aspiring mathematician/accountant I wish to not only calculate numbers to increase the rate of money coming in for the company I work for. I wish to broaden my ideas and the ideas of others to think of math in the outside world and to make it an escape to sanctuary for someone else as it has for me.

Man Up

Man Up

His face is augmented by the shadows that surround him

His haphazard is like a cool breeze on the skin

He walks as if emoting for all to see

But is recluse

He vindicates his role as a virtuoso

He smiles but is in oblivion to those who are engraved by him

He doesn't dilatory

He is spontaneous

But not too haphazard

When looking into his eyes you feel like you’re in an asylum

You are cajoled by how he infiltrates your thoughts

He doesn't dictate or give adulations

He doesn't say the reciprocal of what he feels

Nor does he repudiate what is thrown at him

He is not arid when he extenuates his thoughts

His statements aren't hackneyed or skeptical

He mitigates the truth to make a replica to the harsh facts of life

He speaks of disparity with deplore

His thoughts and ideas are perpetual towards volatile

All he entreats is jubilation

For fidelity to venerate

Those who wish to change the perquisite ways of the world

Man up