Throughout my high school career, I extended every effort to reach the point when I was ready to apply for college. I planned for over a year so that I could to move into my own apartment by my eighteenth birthday and ensure stability for myself. I committed myself to my school work, sometimes staying up past midnight to finish assignments. After school, I went to my job and put in everything I had left in order to support myself and provide for a better future. I’ve given every ounce of effort that I have trying to reach this point, and I know that I deserve to be admitted. I am dedicated, hardworking, and goal-oriented. When I decide that I want to achieve something, I won’t rest until I’ve done what I set out to do. When I was sixteen, I knew that I wanted to move into a place of my own. I asked myself what I had to do to make that happen. I needed to get a job, I needed to save, and I needed to find a place that I could afford. Knowing that my odds of hire would be best if I could claim a skill or trade that was in demand, I enrolled in the Health Science I program at the MACC Center. I studied CNA work from August to April, and by the end of the school year, I had earned my …show more content…
Though I do not have parents to monitor my attendance anymore, I get out of bed each morning and leave to go to school. Though no one is there to punish me for low grades, I study subjects that I struggle with and strive to finish every assignment. Not content with one semester grade in English 10, this year I took the initiative and volunteered to retake that semester for a better mark. It isn’t easy to perform well in school while keeping a job, but I do my best anyway and I succeed because of my drive. When others would give up and throw a worksheet in the trash or call into work for extra study time, I maintain both sides of my schedule with satisfying