My autobio essay

it’s the szn of applications again!
Hi! I’m currently a grade 10 student. I need tips since i’m not the best in acads and I also didn’t had that much experience in extracurricular in my jhs life because of the pandemic however I do plan on applying for FinAid as it’s my only way to help my familyand admu is my prio because they really noursh there students.
I need tips with regards autobio essay, recommendation letter, tips for the exam in general. (my desired strand is STEm btw)
This will help me and other people who plan on applying ADMU SHS
Thano you and have a good day ahead!

for my autobio im was going to dedicate a part to write about religion and how christianity negatively affected me during school. i was wondering how that would do well since ateneo is jesuit and very christ-centered so would they have a bias upon checking essays and seeing religious vs non religious students?

Hi! Has anyone here applied for finaid and got rejected, but applied again the next year and got accepted? I’m from a middle class family but my parents are struggling to pay the entire amount of my tuition, so having a 25% scholarship would already do wonders for us, especially since it’s only my mom working at the moment.
And another question, the essay for this year’s application said Bio essay, was that supposed to be an autobio essay? or did they really mean bio essay where we talk about oursleves in third person?
Thank you!

The metaphysics I gravitate to is optimistic. I mean the kind of optimism that's part and parcel with the nature of things.

• Consider the role of optimism in the functioning of one of the elementary processes of cognition.
• I think of biology and evolutionary processes in general as physical optimism: nature hedging its bets for the future through sheer numbers (of organisms, of kinds of organism, and, if plenty is the rule, of planets teeming with organisms). With so many creatures and so many kinds of creatures, something is bound to survive, if only the tardigrades, cockroaches, or other extremophiles.
• Suicidologist Thomas Joiner's book Why People Die By Suicide persuaded me that optimism is expressed in the organism long before belief or choice on the matter arises. Joiner shows how extremely difficult it is for a person to get to the point that suicide is a genuine risk. Three conditions need to be satisfied: thwarted belongingness, thwarted effectiveness, acquired capacity to serious injure oneself. But it is hard not to belong at all, not when one exists in a world with such a number and variety of persons and other creatures. It is hard not to feel at least a little effective, no matter how much one's total possible effectiveness has been thwarted. And it is hard to acquire the ability to seriously injure oneself. The difficulty of satisfying these conditions is a reason for optimism, and the reason is built in to the organism itself, long before choice enters the picture.

Advocates and commentators on the topic:

• Leibniz in his theodicy and Voltaire's reply, in Candide
• Schopenhauer
• Alexander Pope, in Essay on Man
• Emil Cioran, the arch-pessimist (nb. he did his dissertation on Bergson, who was optimistic if he was anything)
• Nietzsche, e.g. in The Gay Science and Human, All Too Human. In a late edition of The Birth of Tragedy he writes, "Is pessimism necessarily a sign of decline, decay, malformation, of tired and debilitated instincts—as was the case among the Indians and appears to be the case amongst us 'modern men' and Europeans? Is there a pessimism of strength? An intellectual preference for the hard, gruesome, malevolent and problematic aspects of existence which comes from a feeling of well-being, from overflowing health, from an abundance of existence? Is there perhaps such a thing as suffering from superabundance itself? Is there a tempting bravery in the sharpest eye which demands the terrifying as its foe, as a worthy foe against which it can test its strength and from which it intends to learn the meaning of fear?"

To investigate:

• Ralph Waldo Emerson, who was allegedly an optimist (nb. Nietzsche admired Emerson and read him religiously)
• The scholastic argument for ontological goodness (the convertibility of being and good)
• Margaret Boden, in a paper

Questions:

• Is optimism rather than pessimism, or pessimism rather than optimism, the more theoretically virtuous in metaphysics? Does this question even matter? I myself don't actively go looking for optimistic theories or aiming to be optimistic in my own thinking. The continuity and superabundance of nature persuades me to be optimistic, In spite of strife there is a prevailing harmony among persons and among things generally, evident at minimum in the fact that there are any stable patterns at all, not least for the several billion years till life arose on this planet.
• Are scriptural religions optimistic? How about religions not of a book?
• To what extent is optimism in metaphysics a product of the theoretician's reason as opposed to their biological temperament or other psychological characteristics? How should one evaluate optimism and pessimism in metaphysics? To what extent does metaphysical optimism arise from having endured significant trials or losses in life? Several years ago a friend said she liked me for my optimism. It came as a surprise to me. I've endured a lot of misery, and I've consequently tended to think of myself as a pessimist, but there is something basically optimistic in me. To be an inquirer is to be optimistic, i.e., that there is something to be discovered, even if it's falsehood, error, negation. Recall Mayo on being a shrewd inquisitor of error, which is optimistic. Consider the foregoing questions in light of the literature on philosophy as autobiography (also this).
• How does the evidence for "depressive realism" square with Peirce's arguments for optimism in abductive reasoning?
• Someone in one of the subs said that stoicism is optimistic. Is it? At a glance it seems more quietistic than optimistic. What the hell is optimism anyway?

I’m usually in kpop, but I thought some of you might be interested in this so. Usually I keep up with all the successful people in korea, so Son Heung Min is naturally on my list. Recently I read his essay/autobiography book. Vol.1 “things I think about in regards to soccer.” To my knowledge, there is no english version...so I thought I would share my thoughts on the book.
I read roughly 20-30 books a year and...the book wasn’t that great read. It wasn’t very polished. To understand half of the book, you would have needed to closely follow soccer to know what he was thinking at certain periods of time.
Now… i do play soccer, but to understand half of the book was about his feeling during the games. To me, the purpose of autobio is to understand the person and for non-soccer following person, half of the book seemed just statistical.
I read it like a person who didn’t know anything about soccer and here are some things regular people would understand. If this doesn’t get deleted by mods, i’ll write part 2. 3. 4
It is 100% from the book, but i’m amateur translator & reader and did what I could to keep the integrity of the transition of the book.
The book is divided into “halfs.” the first half talks about his dad significantly.

1. Dad’s advice to me until 2nd grade was “go out and play.” Even now, dad talks about this. “You must burn the coal that is known as freedom in order for creativity to be embedded in a person.” Letting kids do what they want is the fastest way to see where their interest lie.
2. During 3rd grade, I wanted to play soccer professionally. Dad (he is ex-national pro player) was against it and asked me “why?” and i said “because it’s fun.” and he told me “heung-min, to play soccer and to be actually good, its hard. the world of soccer is cruel and cold. It’ll make the society look like warm place. Do you still want to do it?” Dad had a big flaw. He was not good at making speech at the eye level of a 3rd grader. Why is soccer cold? What does ‘harsh’ mean? These were what I wanted to ask. Only later I realized how deep those words were…
3. I would go to school in the morning and afternoon we trained for soccer for 2 hours. The menu was simple. It was ball lifting. With inside, outside, middle of the foot, every part of the body. Once mastered, it took 15-20 minutes, but when i started it took 40 minutes. Next was 8 ball dribble (this is where you set 4 cones in diamond on two sides, and make “infinite” signs). This helped me understand the importance of sense of touch. We did this for 7 years.
4. Dad always said “you focus on training, nothing else. I’ll take care of everything else.” Practicing soccer takes a lot of prep. Taking care of pebbles (lot of koreans back then played on dirt field, grass field was...super luxury). Setting up cones, getting the balls. I’ve even see dad take big refrigerator size box to carry a soccer ball. But I only practiced. I never touched anything else.
5. Dad was super scary. Even the academy he ran, kids would quit b/c he was so so scary. And forcing kids only to practice ball lifting, many hated it. Even the academy team could not play against others b/c we never had enough members. I’ve also never remember being praised. All I remember was being criticized.
6. We have lot of stories. One time we were fighting about something and dad got angry and forced us to ‘ball lift’ for 4 hours. The 1 ball started to look like 4, and the ground started to shake. One time neighbhorhood grandma would yell that she’s calling the police because how angry dad treated us. Dad tried to explain that this was for their own good and she said “no way a parent can do that to a child.”
7. I’m like mom and my brother is more like dad. I would do everything dad asked me, but my brother was combative. Arguing against dad and fighting with him. There is a drill that we did where we would lift the ball and circle around small soccer field. 1. left foot, 2. right foot, then with 3. both foot. If we dropped it, we had to start over at 1. When I dropped it, i went back to start, but my brother would drop it and when he saw that dad didn’t notice, he would keep going acting like nothing happened. I’m sure dad knew, but he never said anything.
8. For 7 years, this is all we did. Variations of Ball lift and 8 dribble. Same thing everyday. I was able to do this for 3 reasons. 1. Soccer was fun. 2. Dad was scary and i wasn’t brave enough to tell him that this was boring. 3. I’m sure we’re doing this b/c its necessary dad thought it was necessary.
9. Dad’s philosophy was simple. You must master the ball before anything else. Once you master, then work on pass, then shooting, then tactics, then game play. Unless we can do 1+1 there is no reason to work on anything else.
10. Many wonder what our training was like b/c players have stories about their youth program and such. I don’t really remember what my childhood training was like because we did the same thing every single day.

[side comment-person opinion]
3&9 a. Son heung min dad was a forward at pro national level and he says in interview that he hated how he played the game b/c he didn’t have mastery of the ball. B/C korean team focus on “winning” it neglects to train individuality. He often talks about how wrong this is and promised himself that if any of his kids play, he would train them opposite in the way he was trained

1. This is also mentioned in his documentary with TvN. He says “dad always said if you want to do soccer, you must not do anything else.” so he helps him with every aspect of his life so sonny can play soccer. It goes in detail how he never helped dad set up cones or pick up balls, he only focus was to train.
   
2. now you have to apply and be tested in order to get in the academy. There isn't enough room.
   
3. son's dad talk about the way he treated his kids are absolutely brutal and sometimes it gives him tears in his heart. while son says, its b/c dad sacrificed everything for me, i am here today.
   

His brother I believe... played up to 2nd league in germany somewhere. From the korean soccer community, apparently he’s huge asshole. So people talk about how his dad raised “one true tiger and one false tiger.”
this is roughly.........30% of the book through. As I've said before...i'll keep on writing next week if this doesn't get deleted by mods. Don't wanna be writing knowing its breaking the rules or what not.

I’m usually in kpop, but I thought some of you might be interested in this so. Usually I keep up with all the successful people in korea, so Son Heung Min is naturally on my list. Recently I read his essay/autobiography book. Vol.1 “things I think about in regards to soccer.” To my knowledge, there is no english version...so I thought I would share my thoughts on the book.
I read roughly 20-30 books a year and...the book wasn’t that great read. It wasn’t very polished. To understand half of the book, you would have needed to closely follow soccer to know what he was thinking at certain periods of time.
Now… i do play soccer, but to understand half of the book was about his feeling during the games. To me, the purpose of autobio is to understand the person and for non-soccer following person, half of the book seemed just statistical.
I read it like a person who didn’t know anything about soccer and here are some things regular people would understand. If this doesn’t get deleted by mods, i’ll write part 2. 3. 4
It is 100% from the book, but i’m amateur translator & reader and did what I could to keep the integrity of the transition of the book.
The book is divided into “halfs.” the first half talks about his dad significantly.

1. Dad’s advice to me until 2nd grade was “go out and play.” Even now, dad talks about this. “You must burn the coal that is known as freedom in order for creativity to be embedded in a person.” Letting kids do what they want is the fastest way to see where their interest lie.
2. During 3rd grade, I wanted to play soccer professionally. Dad (he is ex-national pro player) was against it and asked me “why?” and i said “because it’s fun.” and he told me “heung-min, to play soccer and to be actually good, its hard. the world of soccer is cruel and cold. It’ll make the society look like warm place. Do you still want to do it?” Dad had a big flaw. He was not good at making speech at the eye level of a 3rd grader. Why is soccer cold? What does ‘harsh’ mean? These were what I wanted to ask. Only later I realized how deep those words were…
3. I would go to school in the morning and afternoon we trained for soccer for 2 hours. The menu was simple. It was ball lifting. With inside, outside, middle of the foot, every part of the body. Once mastered, it took 15-20 minutes, but when i started it took 40 minutes. Next was 8 ball dribble (this is where you set 4 cones in diamond on two sides, and make “infinite” signs). This helped me understand the importance of sense of touch. We did this for 7 years.
4. Dad always said “you focus on training, nothing else. I’ll take care of everything else.” Practicing soccer takes a lot of prep. Taking care of pebbles (lot of koreans back then played on dirt field, grass field was...super luxury). Setting up cones, getting the balls. I’ve even see dad take big refrigerator size box to carry a soccer ball. But I only practiced. I never touched anything else.
5. Dad was super scary. Even the academy he ran, kids would quit b/c he was so so scary. And forcing kids only to practice ball lifting, many hated it. Even the academy team could not play against others b/c we never had enough members. I’ve also never remember being praised. All I remember was being criticized.
6. We have lot of stories. One time we were fighting about something and dad got angry and forced us to ‘ball lift’ for 4 hours. The 1 ball started to look like 4, and the ground started to shake. One time neighbhorhood grandma would yell that she’s calling the police because how angry dad treated us. Dad tried to explain that this was for their own good and she said “no way a parent can do that to a child.”
7. I’m like mom and my brother is more like dad. I would do everything dad asked me, but my brother was combative. Arguing against dad and fighting with him. There is a drill that we did where we would lift the ball and circle around small soccer field. 1. left foot, 2. right foot, then with 3. both foot. If we dropped it, we had to start over at 1. When I dropped it, i went back to start, but my brother would drop it and when he saw that dad didn’t notice, he would keep going acting like nothing happened. I’m sure dad knew, but he never said anything.
8. For 7 years, this is all we did. Variations of Ball lift and 8 dribble. Same thing everyday. I was able to do this for 3 reasons. 1. Soccer was fun. 2. Dad was scary and i wasn’t brave enough to tell him that this was boring. 3. I’m sure we’re doing this b/c its necessary dad thought it was necessary.
9. Dad’s philosophy was simple. You must master the ball before anything else. Once you master, then work on pass, then shooting, then tactics, then game play. Unless we can do 1+1 there is no reason to work on anything else.
10. Many wonder what our training was like b/c players have stories about their youth program and such. I don’t really remember what my childhood training was like because we did the same thing every single day.

[side comment-person opinion]
3&9 a. Son heung min dad was a forward at pro national level and he says in interview that he hated how he played the game b/c he didn’t have mastery of the ball. B/C korean team focus on “winning” it neglects to train individuality. He often talks about how wrong this is and promised himself that if any of his kids play, he would train them opposite in the way he was trained

1. This is also mentioned in his documentary with TvN. He says “dad always said if you want to do soccer, you must not do anything else.” so he helps him with every aspect of his life so sonny can play soccer. It goes in detail how he never helped dad set up cones or pick up balls, he only focus was to train.
   
2. now you have to apply and be tested in order to get in the academy. There isn't enough room.
   
3. son's dad talk about the way he treated his kids are absolutely brutal and sometimes it gives him tears in his heart. while son says, its b/c dad sacrificed everything for me, i am here today.
   

His brother I believe... played up to 2nd league in germany somewhere. From the korean soccer community, apparently he’s huge asshole. So people talk about how his dad raised “one true tiger and one false tiger.”
this is roughly.........30% of the book through. As I've said before...i'll keep on writing next week if this doesn't get deleted by mods. Don't wanna be writing knowing its breaking the rules or what not.

I’m usually in kpop, but I thought some of you might be interested in this so. Usually I keep up with all the successful people in korea, so Son Heung Min is naturally on my list. Recently I read his essay/autobiography book. Vol.1 “things I think about in regards to soccer.” To my knowledge, there is no english version...so I thought I would share my thoughts on the book.
I read roughly 20-30 books a year and...the book wasn’t that great read. It wasn’t very polished. To understand half of the book, you would have needed to closely follow soccer to know what he was thinking at certain periods of time.
Now… i do play soccer, but to understand half of the book was about his feeling during the games. To me, the purpose of autobio is to understand the person and for non-soccer following person, half of the book seemed just statistical.
I read it like a person who didn’t know anything about soccer and here are some things regular people would understand. If this doesn’t get deleted by mods, i’ll write part 2. 3. 4
It is 100% from the book, but i’m amateur translator & reader and did what I could to keep the integrity of the transition of the book.
The book is divided into “halfs.” the first half talks about his dad significantly.

1. Dad’s advice to me until 2nd grade was “go out and play.” Even now, dad talks about this. “You must burn the coal that is known as freedom in order for creativity to be embedded in a person.” Letting kids do what they want is the fastest way to see where their interest lie.
2. During 3rd grade, I wanted to play soccer professionally. Dad (he is ex-national pro player) was against it and asked me “why?” and i said “because it’s fun.” and he told me “heung-min, to play soccer and to be actually good, its hard. the world of soccer is cruel and cold. It’ll make the society look like warm place. Do you still want to do it?” Dad had a big flaw. He was not good at making speech at the eye level of a 3rd grader. Why is soccer cold? What does ‘harsh’ mean? These were what I wanted to ask. Only later I realized how deep those words were…
3. I would go to school in the morning and afternoon we trained for soccer for 2 hours. The menu was simple. It was ball lifting. With inside, outside, middle of the foot, every part of the body. Once mastered, it took 15-20 minutes, but when i started it took 40 minutes. Next was 8 ball dribble (this is where you set 4 cones in diamond on two sides, and make “infinite” signs). This helped me understand the importance of sense of touch. We did this for 7 years.
4. Dad always said “you focus on training, nothing else. I’ll take care of everything else.” Practicing soccer takes a lot of prep. Taking care of pebbles (lot of koreans back then played on dirt field, grass field was...super luxury). Setting up cones, getting the balls. I’ve even see dad take big refrigerator size box to carry a soccer ball. But I only practiced. I never touched anything else.
5. Dad was super scary. Even the academy he ran, kids would quit b/c he was so so scary. And forcing kids only to practice ball lifting, many hated it. Even the academy team could not play against others b/c we never had enough members. I’ve also never remember being praised. All I remember was being criticized.
6. We have lot of stories. One time we were fighting about something and dad got angry and forced us to ‘ball lift’ for 4 hours. The 1 ball started to look like 4, and the ground started to shake. One time neighbhorhood grandma would yell that she’s calling the police because how angry dad treated us. Dad tried to explain that this was for their own good and she said “no way a parent can do that to a child.”
7. I’m like mom and my brother is more like dad. I would do everything dad asked me, but my brother was combative. Arguing against dad and fighting with him. There is a drill that we did where we would lift the ball and circle around small soccer field. 1. left foot, 2. right foot, then with 3. both foot. If we dropped it, we had to start over at 1. When I dropped it, i went back to start, but my brother would drop it and when he saw that dad didn’t notice, he would keep going acting like nothing happened. I’m sure dad knew, but he never said anything.
8. For 7 years, this is all we did. Variations of Ball lift and 8 dribble. Same thing everyday. I was able to do this for 3 reasons. 1. Soccer was fun. 2. Dad was scary and i wasn’t brave enough to tell him that this was boring. 3. I’m sure we’re doing this b/c its necessary dad thought it was necessary.
9. Dad’s philosophy was simple. You must master the ball before anything else. Once you master, then work on pass, then shooting, then tactics, then game play. Unless we can do 1+1 there is no reason to work on anything else.
10. Many wonder what our training was like b/c players have stories about their youth program and such. I don’t really remember what my childhood training was like because we did the same thing every single day.

[side comment-person opinion]
3&9 a. Son heung min dad was a forward at pro national level and he says in interview that he hated how he played the game b/c he didn’t have mastery of the ball. B/C korean team focus on “winning” it neglects to train individuality. He often talks about how wrong this is and promised himself that if any of his kids play, he would train them opposite in the way he was trained

1. This is also mentioned in his documentary with TvN. He says “dad always said if you want to do soccer, you must not do anything else.” so he helps him with every aspect of his life so sonny can play soccer. It goes in detail how he never helped dad set up cones or pick up balls, he only focus was to train.
   
2. now you have to apply and be tested in order to get in the academy. There isn't enough room.
   
3. son's dad talk about the way he treated his kids are absolutely brutal and sometimes it gives him tears in his heart. while son says, its b/c dad sacrificed everything for me, i am here today.
   

His brother I believe... played up to 2nd league in germany somewhere. From the korean soccer community, apparently he’s huge asshole. So people talk about how his dad raised “one true tiger and one false tiger.”
this is roughly.........30% of the book through. As I've said before...i'll keep on writing next week if this doesn't get deleted by mods. Don't wanna be writing knowing its breaking the rules or what not.

Whether it's academics or casual stuff like movies I can't seem to remember important details.
For example, I'm studying a liberal arts major and it involves a lot of reading about history. I'm truly fascinated by what I read and do well on the essays and exams, but once the class is over it's hard for me to recall anything.
I'm a fan of the NBA and watch games/look at stats/read articles all the time in my free time but I can't come up with a paragraph explaining how I feel or my judgment about something. If you go over to nba, the people there can write essays explaining stuff and support them with facts and info about games years before.
Even on 9/11 threads, people have good memories about what they were doing, even as an 8 year old. That's my age on 9/11 but I don't have any memory of that day.
Is something the matter with me? Am I dumb?
Edit to add
And people that write autobiographies, how the heck do they remember minute details about their childhood and young adult years? I read JFK's mistress Mimi Alford's autobio about her formative years and life as an intern and it's very very detailed. She wrote it in her 60s about her life as a teen. It's 200+ pages of info, that's a lot of material. I'm 23 and can't even remember what I did in high school. I can maybe tell you the jist of it in a few sentences but no specific details.