College Admissions Essay: The Four Years Of High School

Many people who have finished high school claim that it is merely 4 years out of the decades that the future holds. However, I believe that high school is an important foundation in order for one to be successful in college and their chosen profession. High school not only influences but also shapes the interests and feelings that students have toward certain subjects. In the following years, these same feelings and habits will be hard wired into the brain as highschoolers mature into young adults. They become innate reactions and will have critical impact on the lives of these students. In realizing the importance of the 4 years of high school and their substantial impact on our future choices, I’ve taken great a great deal of effort to be less critical of my teachers and peers and of the high school experience in general. It has served me well because unlike the majority of my classmates, I loved whatever subject I was studying. As a student, I grew up accompanied by the will to excel and with excellency came the beautiful complexity and the joy of math. Its

At first, convinced that I simply didn't pay enough attention in class, I spent many hours a week studying by myself at home, Googling websites and watching lengthy videos from Khan Academy, an online learning website that provides video lectures to anyone who had the time. To my delight, I was able to catch up with the lectures and the busywork that followed. However, most of my time went into a subject that was no longer enjoyable or fun. It was simply self-studying and going to class seemed useless with the lifeless and exhausted atmosphere from the students who have either given up or were about to. The same pattern applied to both Pre Cal and AP Cal, with the second becoming so unbearable that I began to do research on my own in