To be completely honest, this is the one thing I have been dreading for months: writing my personal statement. At the beginning of the school year, many teachers decide that they want an essay about their students. Every time this is brought up, I sit staring at a blank computer screen for hours. Any other essay prompt and I would be done typing in no time, but this one is always a struggle. Like all other human beings, there are...

Following Georgetown's McDonough School of Business essay prompt of "Describe the factors that have influenced your decision to study business." My dad is an engineer. He has been trying to push me to go into engineering since I was a kid. Now that I am in high school, my math and science teachers and counselors all think I would be the best engineer in the world. That might be true, but ever since my first business class my freshman year,...