College application essay. Should read like a love letter to aviation. From aCollege application essay. Should read like a love letter to aviation. From a young age, I often found myself lying in the grass, looking up at planes… Father died suddenly when I was 9, didnt have much growing up, never let that stop me from pursuing my dream. Moved to Fl and took first flight at age 12 and was enraptured…not much in my life I could control but this I could…. Built a Sling 2 aircraft with other teens from the ground up with the Naples Youth Aviation Project (NYAP); those years of building in the hangar taught important life lessons and gave me lifelong friends… I am ready to realize my dreams of becoming a commercial airline pilot and hope I can mentor other young girls who may not know a career in aviation is possible… I look back on that young girl looking up at the sky and I wave my wings to her.
