Pursuing My Lifetime Goals

Ayush Sah

Mrs. Seeley

Eng IV 3B

17 Sept 2015

Considering your lifetime goals, discuss how your current and future academic and extracurricular activities might help you achieve your goals.

Growing up in an Asian family and heritage, I was always told to push myself to the limit. Being a hardworking student, I have taken challenging classes throughout my high school career. Higher level courses such as Pre-AP, AP, and IB classes have helped me transcend my own limits, pushed me to work harder and allowed me to realize my full potential. My entire life I thought in school, I would learn all I need to know to be successful in this world. Then, my fifth grade teacher, Mr. Thompson, profoundly altered my thinking. He said, “School only gives you

In addition, it has taught me how to work in a team with people who have a different opinion than me. Organizing community events, volunteering at those events to make sure everything is going as planned and by helping manage upcoming events have drastically shaped my overall decision making skill, allowing me to choose between two factors much effectively. The habits that I am picking up from these activities will stay with me throughout college, giving me an opportunity to further advance my college

Volunteering and participating in these events has taught me new ways of doing things in a time conserving manner. For example, in the first year of Business Information Management class, we were told to type a timed resume for Bill Gates. Only other time the term “resume” had shaken my eardrums was when my uncle said, “your participation in physics club will make your resume very strong.” As I was trying to recall that moment, my teacher passed out a sample resume so we can get an idea of what a resume looks like. Before I could even take a look at the paper, I hear a voice saying, “your time starts now!” Although I was able to finish writing based off the sample resume, it took me a great amount of time. As I attended the Microsoft workshop at the library, I was taught a much faster and accurate way of typing documents in word, excel and powerpoint. The technology workshop fueled my passion for computers. The future academic and extracurricular activities I’m planning to take in college such as athletic programs, community service, fundraising and etc gives me a chance to gain experiences that aren’t taught in