High school I started at the bottom, not liking school, but because of my experience of life and work I find school more easy and I push myself to like school. Now, I'm at the top of the roller coaster where I like school and want to learn. I compare my educational goals to my work habits. I know I can work really hard, if I can take that same effort and put it into my education. I know I can gain a lot and give college my very best.
Thinking back when I was fifteen years old, I would have never thought I could have gotten this far in my college career. I moved to United States my sophomore year of high school and started taking ESOL (English For Speakers Of Other Language) classes and progressively moved to take honors classes in my junior year and AP classes as a senior. Even though I am a first generation college student, getting higher education was always encouraged in my family. Applying to college, getting accepted in a prestigious university, obtaining an internship, graduating with a bachelor’s degree and getting accepted into a master’s program they were all goals that I accomplished by learning from numerous mistakes. My family and I learned a lot from my college experience and we all worked hard as a team to continue reaching those goals.
By the time I graduate high school, I will already have my college associate degree that I will have earned through my hard work and dedication. Even though I went through a lot at such a young age, it has shaped me in every possible way. I was exposed to a whole different language and culture, but I was able to succeed through my strong desire of success and dedication. I am thankful for every challenge that I had to go through because if it was not for them, I would not be the person I am
Some days are harder than others but I still do not let anything get in the way of my education. My post-secondary goals after high school are to become a Registered Nurse which I have wanted to be ever since I was a little kid.
Going to school shaped who I am in many ways. It taught me how to do math, how to write, and many other things that have interested me and that made me think. School also brought my friends and I together. Without school bringing these things to me, I wouldn 't be who I am today. When I first went to school I was very excited, hyper, and emotional.
As a child, I was always told to dream big by my mother, father, and many others. Nonetheless, living with my mother, stepfather, and siblings in San Jose, there was constantly fighting, moving around, and fear from within, as well as the outside world. I always struggled in school but didn’t think much of it, considering both parents and older siblings were high school dropouts but weren’t in disastrous situations. Towards the end of elementary school, I refused to go to school because of my social phobia, as well as the fact that I would be bullied because of my speech impediment. Near the end of my seventh grade, I went to Modesto with my dad every weekend and found the different environment to be very calming, thus when the time came for him to bring me back home, I would cry in the car and beg to be taken back to Modesto.
Have you ever had a moment in your life when you were moved so much, that it affected your future? Well this is the story of how that happened to me. All this happened during the transition from middle school to high school. The decisions I had made in this time changed my viewpoints on my future, high school, academics, friends, my future, as well as life itself. It was moments like this that are crucial in ones’ life.
When I read The Lord of the Rings I remember a quote that sums up my current educational journey, “Home is behind, the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread through shadows to the edge of night, until the stars are all alright.” In high school I had no idea what I was doing or where I was going with life. As a kid I had dreams of being a Jedi when I grew up, and the next Indiana Jones, or an actor. I could do and be anything I wanted, and it was not an impossible thought since I had taken an interest in doing activities around these different subjects. I was even learning the piano and violin and I still play to this day.
The adversity that I have faced in my life is not something I look down upon. My challenges have pushed me to be the best person I can be and are the root of my success. High school has been an amazing, while also difficult, time for me. It seems like just yesterday I was walking in the doors for my first day of freshman year, unsure what to expect from the new environment. The opportunities that high school offer inspired me to take action and to become involved.
I worked my way up from freshman year to senior year and I know I can improve even more and that 's what I want to achieve in college. I know that I can improve and I will work hard to get my goal. All the hard times I went through in my life made me realize who I truly am, and I might change but only for the better and I cant wait for what the future brings
When I started high school I felt like I did not belong here. High school was very different from my middle school. Some of my teachers tried to tell me how high school was going to be like for all of us in the moment I believed them but the only advice I valued was my older brothers. “No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.”
It’s been a truly remarkable journey, full of unimaginable experiences and life lessons. From going to a public middle school to an Early College High School; I never knew how much I’d learn throughout my educational experience. When I first heard about the Early College High School program offered in my hometown I knew right away it was something I wanted to be a part of, being that I 'm from a small town in North Carolina. It would be a challenge for me to complete, but I personally like a challenge, which is why Early College was the right program for me to participate in. I faced many challenges throughout my educational experience at SEarCH (Scotland Early College High School).
but I was resilient. I didn’t let the fact that I was years of materials behind everyone else bother me. I continued to try my best and study hard, and with hard work and resilience, I was able to successfully graduate junior high school with good grades. I may have not graduated with flying colours, but I’m content with my results; especially knowing how much effort and hard work I’ve put into it and how resilient I was during the harder
My first experience with a school outside of the post was in Oklahoma. I was in the sixth grade. We had arrived at the end of the school year and the kids were all ready to be out for the summer break. My mom enrolled me in my new school anyway, about two weeks before summer vacation. I had wanted to go after summer but had to go before the vacation began, an awkward time for sure.
Now that it has been almost three years since I started college, I have accomplished so much that I thought would never be possible for me. I have almost completed my Associates in Arts degree with all most straight A’s. In high school, this was never the case for myself, I was too worried about guys and partying. I also didn’t have the support from my family either. I have now buckled down and have focused all my energy on my school work.
