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Four years from today, I may be a senior at the Wake Forest University, one of the most prestigious universities in the nation. Four years from today I will be filling out applications for law school. Four years from today I will still be myself. Four years from now I will still be the quirky, eccentric, fool with a balance impairment. I know I will still select an eos chapstick over nutella any day. I know that I will make time for God in my life. And I know that I will volunteer and help those younger than me in any way that I can. I know these things because they are my values. They are a part of who I am, they are permanently engrained in my being. My values, they are what allow me to face the world. “I do what I have to do because it is the right thing to do” (Freedom Writers) I know I am going to change the world. I want to change things, to make them happen! I don’t know if I may start a revolutionary idea, or maybe just impact one person. But I truly want to. Perhaps these are simply the effects the encouraging words of my sociology teacher that has always told me that I can make a difference. I have donated over one thousand hours of community service in the four years along of high school with the simple selfish reason of being remembered. I don’t want to be remembered as “that tutor that helped me read better in Spanish” or the friendly assistant teacher at my Sunday school. I want to be the friend that told them that their dreams could come true. I cannot guarantee who I will be in four years, but I can promise you that I will try to make a difference to get my name in history. I will make a difference.

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