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National Honor Society: A Short Story

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I know I’m sitting in front of my silver Mac laptop but yet I can see anything in front of me. I’m starring at a colourful screen but yet I can’t comprehend what I am reading. All of a sudden everything looks blurry. I panic a little as I wonder why this is occurring. Until all of asudden, I felt tear drops slowly running down my checks. I’m crying! I’m frustrated! But most of all I feel like a failure. Why couldn’t I get the score I so desperately needed!? Why can’t I be smart? I should know all of this! I’ve taken weekend camp and even had a one-on-one tutor. All that money spend and for what! My small head was exploding with all these questions and statements that had just one big no caption that I fear may have been stamp on my forehead, FAILURE! These SAT scores had me questioning what I …show more content…

As an eighth grader, I sat sadly on my chair during graduation seeing all my close friends graduate as partof the Honor Society. I wanted that for myself. I didn’t want to feel dumb. So that 1st day of as I walked nervously into the huge hallway of my high school, I made a goal to work as hardas I could to graduate as a member of the National Honor Society. And three and a half years later I proudly accomplish this goal. Suddenly I realize that I’m not a failure. The moremy head started reprogramming my head with all my great accomplishments; I felt my posture straightening out. The SAT score doesn’t define who I am. It doesn’t know the endless hours I invested studying hard, that I took honor classes and that I’m taking AP courses. It doesn’t know that I’m always volunteering or that I help run youth soccer camps or that I’m a core team member of my church youth group or that while doing all of this I playtravel soccer and I’m a four year varsity player and captain of my team. But most of all that I’m a good, honest, caring and hard working person. This has only encouraged me to find other ways to show the college of my choice that I am

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