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Pursuing My Accomplishments In My High School Career

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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…

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