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__** SAT Essay #2-Patience-7.14.2011 ** __ ->If you were a businessman expecting a high quality presentation, do you think the maker of the presentation could have produced and distributed a polished product within minutes? It would take days to make a suitable show. However, if you were suffering a heart attack, wouldn't you want a quick response so you could survive? Patience is required for some tasks to occur, while for others it is appropriate if impatientce is practiced. Whether it is better for people to act quickly and expect quick responses from others rather to patiently wait for what they want depends on the situation.

->Impatience almost always leads to stress, even if you're not the one who experiences it. If the person you assign the presentation to had to deliver within one hour, they would undoubtedly be stressed. Suppose they are unable to deliver? Then you will be left angry, dissappointed, and possibly embaressed! Plus, if this happens frequently, you or your colleague can develop behavorial problems that make you less pleasant to be around. However, impatience can be practiced in medical emergencies without causing stress to many others. When you're having a heart attack and the paramedics rush you to a hospital, the paramedics won't be stressed, since they're trained to stay calm in the worst of situations. When you use impatience depends on the situation you're in.

->Patience will lead to happiness and peacefulness. If you are patient with the person making the presentaion, they will probably deliver a better product than you expected and faster too because they are under less stress. You and the presentaion maker will be happier and have peace of mind. If patience is practiced, you'' get better results, and you'll be calmer.

->Patients should be practiced if you need a good product and fast. Impatience should only be practiced in medical emergencies where a fast response is needed. Patience leads to peace of mind and less disappointment, and you'll be a better person to be around overall. Impatience will make it easier for you to get frustrated and stressed, and make you a less pleasant person. Patience should be practiced in situtations not involving medical emergencies.

**__ SAT Essay-7.14.2011 __** Once when I was 6, I tried to take a hot pan off the stove. The handle was metal, and I did not realize it could burn me. I picked up the pan and immediately dropped it to the ground. My hands were burning. The contents of the pan spilled all over the floor. I never forgot the incident. From then on I knew to never take a hot pan off the stone. Memories help people in their efforts to learn from the past and succeed in the present.

Memories can be life lessons or accidents or even mere observations. Like learning to tie your shoe, or watching your brother make the mistake of leaving his car keys in the car. Sometimes forgetting the bad memories can make living in present easier, but it's usually the bad memories (like the story mentioned above) the carry the best lessons and have the best message.

Relinquishing memories means letting go of everything you've learned. If you try to forget everything you've learned, it will be harder to succeed. Forgetting memories may make moving in the present easier, but it makes it harder for you to go anywhere in life. Memories are what make the world go around, and without them, we wouldn't be who we are today. Without them, we'd have nothing differentiating our personalities. Without them, we'd all be the same.

I think this is a powerful topic and was engaged by your opening. As a reader, I can relate to being told "no" by my parents or being given advice rather than what I want. Help me understand how you were able to not only accept the advice but embrace it as your own philosophy.

I'd like to hear more about what it looks like giving up on "wants." Give some examples/details. Tell me the story. Was this a gradual transition? Was it an abrupt-life-changing-awareness? How did it make you feel? How has it shaped your character? **Personal Essay-7.13.2011 ** When I was 6, I lost a bike race with my friends because their bikes were all newer and lighter. My bike was okay, but it was old and bulky. I went home and asked my parents for a new bike, but they refused. The only thing they offered was a piece of advice: Do you best with what you have. At first, I was annoyed to be receiving words instead of a new bike. It was only later did I bother to comprehend what they explained to me. They told me to work with what I had instead of asking for something else. This is a principle that can be applied in all walks of life, and I have followed since then, for the past 8 years.

Following this principle led to me having less wants. It took a while for me to mature, and there were a lot of bumps on the road, but I did it. There was one particular episode where I wanted a whiteboard, and so I asked my parents to take me to Office Depot. They refused, but instead of whining about it, I dealt with it by using a piece of paper. To my surprise, a I was able to lead a more frugal life, I saved up what little money I earned or received and used it only when necessary. My parents had done this as well, so our family was financially secure. Doing the best with what you have will lead to you working harder, which means you'll get more. So, if you do your best with what you have, you'll get more out of it, and if you get more, you won't have to work as hard, so your life will be stupendous. Frugality leads to high quality of life, even if you don't spend that much.

However, you'll only get a high quality of life if you do the best with //you// have. Using someone else's effects will have the opposite result. For example, if you use someone else's knowledge of math on a math test (otherwise known as cheating) you aren't using your own knowledge, and you definitely aren't doing your best either. You aren't being true to yourself, or honest.Using your own conditions is vital to doing your best.

Doing your best with what you have has compeled me to have less wants. I am living a frugal life, and enjoy a high quality of life because of it.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">** What is the best advice you ever received? Why? And did you follow it? (University of Pennsylvania) ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 115%;">Do your best with what **you** have--not somebody else’s stuff (like brains or something) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 115%;">**Intro**: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">** Paragraph 1: ** _
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 115%;">Hook
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 115%;">When I was 6, I lost a bike race with my friends because their bikes were all newer and lighter. My bike was okay, but it was old and bulky. I went home and asked my parents for a new bike, but they refused. The only thing they offered was a piece of advice: Do you best with what you have.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 115%;">I feel this is a principle that can be applied in all walks of life.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 115%;">I have followed it so far
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 115%;">…my 14 years…
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 115%;">Leads to less wants
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 115%;">So you can lead a frugal life
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 115%;">Be happier
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 115%;">Financially secure
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 115%;">So you’ll work harder to do the best with what you have
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 115%;">Get more!
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 115%;">Like give what you get sort of situation
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 115%;">Reasoning: if you do your best with what you have, you’ll get more, and if you have more, you won’t have to work as hard anymore, so life will be good
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">** Paragraph 2: do the best with what //you// have. **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 115%;">If you use someone else’s effects, you’re not being true to yourself
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 115%;">So you’re not really your best, because you’re using someone elses things
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 115%;">Like cheating on a math test—you’re using someone else’s knowledge of math, not yours, so you’re not doing your best
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">** Conclusion: **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 115%;">Doing the best with what you have leads to less wants, and you’re more satidfied with whatever you accomplish

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<span style="color: black; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 32px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">//<span style="color: #000000; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Original: // <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 32px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000000; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Down the road late at night, the blind man went. He made noise with his stick. He wore something shading his eyes and was bent over. He said he lost his eyes helping England and King George. <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 32px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">//<span style="color: #000000; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Modified: // <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 32px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000000; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Down the road late at night, the blind man, Pew, went. Swinging his weapon, a long, curved stick, around, he brought about cacophony to the peaceful neighborhood with his nervous shouts. He fashioned and blind fold and was cowering over the icy ground. Cape billowing and body shivering, Pew explained how he was deprived of his eyes helping England and King George. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Frightened, the blind man shuffels along the icy street up the snowy hill to his home. His weapon, a long stick, is akwardly extended in front of his body. He swings it around not knowing what he could hit. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Body shivering and lungs gasping in the frigorific air, the blind man, Pew, yearns to return safely to his warm home behind him. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">His loose socks crawl back down his chubby legs and into his archaic shoes which struggle to maintain traction with the slippery, perilous ground. The cuffs of his clothing fall back to his shoulders as he holds his hands up in fear.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Rambling Autobiography__** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//**7.11.2011**//

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the 1st son of two Indian immigrants. My younger brother, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Vivek, would come five years later in Wilmingtion, NC, <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">a small coastal town two hours from Raleigh. I moved to Atlanta when I was 6 and a half, and have lived here ever since. For the first 5 months we were here we lived in a small 2 bedroom apartment in Decatur, then we moved to our first house in East Cobb. It was the first house my parents had purchased and lived in in the U.S. We'd lived in apartments for the majority of our life's. I remember getting pushed down a hill of snow on a tire outside our apartment in Wisconsin at the age of two.<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Heart beating and mind racing, I sped down the hill holding on to the tire for dear life. I'm not sure if I sustained any injuries in the incident. My dad,<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> a fun-loving guy, purposely pushed me down! From our apartment in Wilmington I remember that the ladies who worked in the office were always very kind to me, as I was frequently locked out of the apartment by my babysitter, <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">an old deaf woman. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tears flowing and knuckles aching, I would knock and knock but she wouldn't hear me and wouldn't open the door....

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">When I was born, my parents named me Vineet, but on my Social Security card my name was spelled "Vincent." <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Pleasantly humored, my parents had to get me a new card. However, that misspelling has followed me my entire life, and whenever someone misspells/mispronounces my name 80% of the time they say Vincent. It's like a curse! I am always <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">wondering -where do people get the C from?!