in the Helfman household. My mom was constantly jabbering on the phone‚ my dad’s eyes were glued to his computer working‚ and my brother was stuck to his bed and never got up. My brother‚ Danny had gotten into Syracuse University a few months earlier and he was ecstatic about the life he was going to make for himself. Danny and I got along well our whole lives‚ but we weren’t as close as some other siblings. This upset me because sometimes all I wanted to do was talk to my brother and get his advice
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harmonies‚ timbre‚ and texture‚ a whole new realm is unraveled. The extraordinary feeling of unwinding and renewing your mind by listening to the flow of music is inexpressible. Nothing compares. My sophomore year I was given a choice: Either continue in the solo classical piano I had played my whole life‚ or join jazz band and put effort into learning a new style of music. I chose jazz. The comping‚ sight-reading‚ and working with a group of people made jazz crazily different from classical. I loved
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pink and blue. She laughed with her friends uncontrollably. I watched her every day through my window as I was stuck in my hospital bed forbidden to go play with the other kids. I was in preschool; I couldn’t skip and laugh and play with the others because I was born with a disease called Congenital Ocular Dystopia from Orbito Frontal Bone Dysplasia‚ which means I was missing bones behind my eyes to keep my eye sockets in place. I also had distorted facial bones and visual acuity issues‚ and no one
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My Life Experience on why I Chose Radiology as my Major In 2007 my life changed forever when I was hospitalized for appendicitis and had to have my appendix removed. I was then notified of something beyond that‚ which we change my life forever. The doctors diagnosed me with Crohns disease. I had never heard of it before and when the doctor explained the disease to me‚ I became very depressed. It explained the stomach pains that starting occurring just a few years earlier‚ when I was a senior
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of what her life was going to be like‚ she finally found a job in a retail store‚ working at minimum wage and getting paid under the table‚ meaning that she could only accrue in cash. This was just a stepping-stone that will lead her to reaching her dream. For the first two years of working on the retail store‚ she worked extensively amount of hours during the day‚ approximately 10 to 12 hours‚ about 6 days a week and sometime even 7 days. In the midst of those years‚ she assisted my parents with
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My eyes felt heavy and dry from staring at my phone for so long. I know I should have been studying for my science test‚ but I procrastinated‚ so I continued to keep my dazed eyes glued to the bright screen. When I rarely looked up from my phone‚ I noticed that day was withering away‚ as it was becoming more and more deep into the night‚ with the sun replaced by the moon in the star-filled sky. After just simply turning my neck to my window‚ I felt stiff from staying in the same position‚ being too
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being‚ I have had my fair share of challenges to face. My parents were born and raised in Mexico. Being from the type of family both my parents had‚ education was not an option and no importance was taken toward it. They both dropped out of high school and began to work in factories to help their families with financial problems. They realized how hard it was to earn a living and to maintain a family without a proper education. When I was four years old and my sister was nine‚ my parents made the
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Forrest Gump once said on a park bench‚ “ My mama always said there’s an awful lot you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes‚ where they’re going‚ where they’ve been.” As I get older‚ the more I realize everyone has a story to be heard. However‚ mine cannot be told by the shoes I wear on my feet. It can be told by the way I carry myself through everyday life. At a young age I quickly became accustomed to chaos. My father’s second home was a prison cell‚ and my mother’s first love was drugs. This
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My parents and I were getting ready to leave after a long night waiting for results when the doctor came in and told me the scariest thing I have ever heard in my life. He said that if I had landed and inch and a half more forward on my neck then I would have been paralyzed and in a wheelchair for the rest of my life. When I was in first grade at Morris Brandon Elementary School‚ something very bad happened to me. I was jumping on my trampoline that my sister had gotten 4 days before this for her
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That 1.8-meter-tall singer on stage was me. My schoolmates may not know me by name‚ but they can tell something about the guy who is damn good at singing musicals. After he finished singing on the stage‚ the principal jumped to his feet clapping hands. Parents watching online hurriedly posted messages of praise‚ eager to find out whose kid the singer was. I‚ proud but not vain‚ had been accustomed to such reactions. For me‚ loving and practicing musicals has been a long‚ inspiring journey; it means
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