College Essay

Task: Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence

When I was little I always did what I saw my big brother do. I would copy him in everything. He was my role model. No matter what he did I saw him as someone who had courage to fight for what's right. He so rarely broke down. He was and is like my second father.
So often I would do everything he would do and I would like everything he would like. When he wanted to play baseball I wanted to play baseball. When he wore one thing I wanted to wear it. He loves math, I love math. When he aspired to be an astronaut and work for NASA, I wanted to be an astronaut and work for NASA. That was his dream and as it was his dream it became mine.
This dream followed both him and me through out elementary and Jr high school. In High school his aspiration to becoming an astronaut died. I was left alone in the dream of going to space. "Our" dream of becoming astronaut did not die on my part. I spend to more years aspiring to live the dream me and my brother once had.
When I reached freshmen year in high school, my brother was already in his second year in college, with his own dream and his own major.I realized then that i couldn't live my life through the life of my brother. I could not want to do everything he did just because i admired him. As a began to find myself i realized that i too had other dreams that i wished to fulfil in my life. I began to realize i did not want to be an astronaut. I recognized, that dream was not really my dream it was my brothers old dream, that I followed it just because I looked up to him and wanted to do what every he wanted to do.
Though I may not have wanted to be an astronaut anymore, I still did desire to work for NASA. Even though I was just a freshmen i began to look for a career that might fit my dream of working for NASA. I wanted to go to some college that have some major that might help me accomplish my dream. I finally had a dream of my own. I began to research and became interested in learning how to build and make shuttles and space equipment.
Having my own dream has defined me better. I now see what I want out of life. Yet I can't deny that thanks to my brother I found that dream. He makes me want to finish high school and go on to college and follow my dream. He would be the first person from my family to finish college. He motivates me to keep going. Though I found my own dreams it doesn't change the fact that I want to do great things with my life as my brother is doing now.