During elementary school, I rarely struggled with the difficulty or workload. When I tested in and attended Whitney M. Young Magnet High School for 7th grade, I was soon overwhelmed by the stress and workload. Because of how independent I was in grade school, I struggled with figuring out how to lessen the stress and deal with it. I rarely approached my parents, because of their lack of knowledge about my coursework. Even though my grades began to drop, I continued to believe that I could handle it on my own.
Goal Number One I didn’t know it yet, but the way I viewed the game of lacrosse was about to change drastically. It was a normal day for me. I was in eighth grade, and I was getting ready for school.
This psychological assignment requires us to break a social norm. In my case, I decided to break an appearance social norm. I thought in something weird, but at the same time really funny. Therefore, I entered to my little walking closet and I took the most brilliant and extravagant high heels shoes that I found to wear them at a place when people usually used flip flops.
“Ok, you wait here,” I told Hailey. I hurriedly climbed the stairs to grab my coat so I could walk her to school. Hailey can never run up the stairs. Everyone of them is different height from the last, making it impossible to properly judge how high to lift your foot. Either the stair is too high and she stumbles forward with her foot falling beneath where she was expecting it to stop, or she kicks the step lip with her socked foot.
When disadvantages occur, it feels bad and upsetting. But at that moment it is best to keep an open mind to try to think positive and overcome the challenges that occur. It might be difficult to think positive when you have a disadvantage, but thinking positive is one of the best ways to overcome the obstacle. Sharing an example would be the time our soccer team made it into the finals. Only ten minutes were left into the game was over.
day would offer a real-life test. As Carla Berkowitz walked up to classmates Jessica Quaggin-Smith and Max Kazer on Monday afternoon at Lake Shore Park, not far from Northwestern Memorial Hospital, she noticed a shirtless man in gym shorts and black sneakers leaning back on a nearby bench with his head tilted back. "He looked really uncomfortable. His mouth was open and he was just in a really awkward position. Something didn 't look right, didn 't feel right to me," said Berkowitz, 23, who lives in the Gold Coast.
The Monster I run but i’m always found My feet never delay when hitting the ground The monster follows me day and night Always manages to give me quite a fright I ran and ran for years on end But somehow always ended up in the monsters den Roar it would and strut around Like a rooster it's squawk and sound Once again my feet hit the ground I met the monster again in its den But something changed
One of my most difficult academic challenges that I have faced was in my 11th grade trigonometry class. The problem that I faced was that for the entire 1st semester we didn 't have an actual math teacher. Throughout the entire semester, different substitute teachers switched in and out of the class. This challenge is significant to me because i tool this challenge as an opportunity to take control of my education and to try and use my leadership skills to help myself and the rest of my class learn without a proper teacher.
I was floating in a place which I can only describe as the abyss. It was an endless void which engulfed all life and turned them into nothigness yet here I was. I didn'i know how I died but the last thing I remember was my computer screen. I had several tabs opened about the mythological. I was a fanatic when it came to myth.
I had to find opportunities instead of them coming to me because of amount of resources my parents had. The greatest challenge in my life was to get good grades because that was the one thing no one could take from me. The discouraging part was that at school I was just a number and no one could see the knowledge I
What defines me the most? Is it my race, ethnicity, ideology, religion or my intellectual heritage? My ethnicity and race speak to where I come from, alongside the cultures of my parents and my ancestors. However, they say a little about the person I am, without defining me intellectually. In essence, my religion gives voice to my identity and a true sense of my personality.
In my brief life, I have overcome a lot of adversity. My mom fled Mexico with her three young children to escape domestic violence. When we came to this country we had only a few personal belongings and the promise of a better future. We came to this country and lived in a small trailer with no toilet other than a bucket, and no shower except for the one that was lent to us from the kindness of a stranger, our new neighbor. As a single parent, my mother had to work day and night to support us.
Overcoming an Obstacle As I begin to think about my life, I start to reminisce on the most darkest times I went through. This point in time is when I gave birth to my baby boy, which I begin to suffer from postpartum depression. At that moment I knew I needed to seek help, whether it was physically or spiritually. Even though I never thought I would make it out, it has been almost three years since I overcame this obstacle.
Often, people tend to encounter emotional, physical, and mental obstacles in life, allowing them to interfere with achieving their goals. Growing up around a family who has allowed drug abuse, alcoholism, teen pregnancy, dropping out of high school, and other obstacles to hinder their success, it has caused them to be imprisoned, struggle with welfare, not attend college and not being good role models. Having went through my own personal struggles, I decided to use my family’s negative experiences to set positive goals for myself. I refused to allow my family’s patterns, and my obstacles, to negatively define who I am today, and even more important, who I will become in the future. I am the only teenager in my family who does not get in trouble with the law and does not abuse drugs or alcohol.
Critical Thinking #1 Through my short time in Uganda, I have gain a great insight from class this semester that relates directly to my experience. For example, through my host family, practicum, or interacting with other Ugandans. It has been an eye-opening experience learning about a culture that I have never interacted with or experiencing going to a different country for the first time. In class, I am truly learning how culture does in fact matter.
