Question

Scholarship essay required questions:

Tell a story with three main parts:

1. What are the most significant challenges you have faced?

2. What accomplishments are you most proud of?

3. What will the scholarship mean to you/allow you to do?

4. Bonus: Can you connect your story in any way to the story of Martin Langan himself (story below)

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Try to connect yourself with Mark Langan. (Read below)

Mark Langan’s Bio:

Martin W. Langan was born in Reading, Pa., in 1907. His sweet temperament, combined with his love for candy, earned him the nickname “Fudge” as a child. That name stuck with him throughout his lifetime.

Following his graduation from high school, he commuted hours each day from Reading to Philadelphia to take night courses in business and accounting.

Lesson: Langan was dedicated to education/improving his future.

After receiving a certification, he worked as an accounting clerk at a large insurance company in Reading. He was there for 40 years until he reached a mandatory retirement age.

Lesson: Patient; hard worker

In his mid 20’s, while in a local hospital for an appendectomy, he met a young nurse, Mae Westley, who was to become his wife. Mae was also born in Reading and, like him, had taken night courses—in her case, to earn credits needed to enter nursing school. Martin and Mae were married for 54 years and had three children.

For decades, he arrived home like clockwork at 5:20 pm, and almost every day the family would sit down to dinner at 5:30.

Lesson: Family-oriented/dedicated to his family

He ate heartily, often finishing what was left on others’ plates. A quiet man with a generous belly, he loved his children unconditionally and would help them with the dishes before moving for the evening to a large rocking chair. There, he would watch TV, nap, smoke a cigar, organize his shopping coupons, and plan his bets for the office football pool.

Lesson: Organized, good at routines. Self care?

He went to church every week and took particular pleasure in priests who gave the shortest sermons. When teaching his son how to drive, he advised the boy to “Move along quietly,” and this directive became a guideline that has served his son ever since.

Lesson: religious

During all their years at home, his children never heard him swear or utter or a single word of disrespect for any race or religion. Once in the row house community where the Langan family lived, a mixed-race couple moved in next door. Neighbors came to Fudge, a respected elder in the neighborhood, to ask for help in driving the couple away. He refused, saying that Christians should not do such a thing, and his children bore silent witness.

Lessons: open-minded, kind to all people

Martin “Fudge” Langan died in 1992; his wife Mae Wesley Langan died in 1999. Their three children remember them as people who never put on airs, worked hard, moved along in life with quiet care and modesty, and did their best to live honest, decent lives.

Closing bullet points:

• Hard worker

• Humble/modest

• Caring

• Honest

• Kind

• Family-oriented

Answer 1

Let me first tell my story. I completed my graduation in 2012 and joined for CA i.e. Chartered Accountancy. After completing my training under a qualified CA (that was how it should be done) for 3 years, I started preparing for my intermediate exams on my own without attending any classes. But I was not able to clear the same. Later after two years I decided to attend the classes and finished my intermediate exams through my hard work within a year. This was counted to be the second toughest examination in our country.

Then I went to a nearby state for attending my final classes and attended the same and attained a job after 2 years. Meanwhile, I also worked for a government organization for the underprivileged and other entities. Later I married my long time best friend and boyfriend. We have a daughter who is 2 years now. My husband works as a sales manager in an MNC in Qatar. And he is a very generous man who helps me achieve my goals and let me live the way I want.

And when connecting my story to Martin W. Langans story there are similarities that I could find whih are as follows:

- Hard work: Like Martin, I also have worked hard to achieve my course as I had to move away from my home many a times in order to achieve what I want. I also had to go through many difficulties when my father had financial troubles. But it was my hard work and determination that helped me reaches my destiny.

- Humble/modest: I am a person who is always humble and modest to those persons who behave right and good. I cannot and would not tolerate those people who lie, is dishonest or treat the fellow beings rudely.

- Caring: In my teen and adulthood before marriage I used to help my mother and siblings with all the household chores and earn small money so as to gift my siblings what they want. Today also I buy each and everything that my mother and father want. I also send them an amount every month so as to help them with their provisions.

- Honest: Honesty is something that I expect from others towards me so I also make sure that I maintain the same with everyone around me. Majorly my family, my husband and his family. I also maintain the same with my fellow workers and the clients that I meet.

- Kind: I live in a multi culture, multi race and religion area. In my locale there are all types of people and also people who belong to different countries. As I was born and bought up in Saudi Arabia until my 18 years, I was taught to be generous with all people around us so I maintain the same even today.

- Family oriented: I’m very bound to my husband and daughter, my family and my husband’s family. I always ensure that my mother in law has me when in need and that they stay with me and my husband as they are getting aged and are not feeling lonely and left alone. The same has been ensured with my family also as my mother and father stay with my brother and his family as a part of taking care of them in their old age.