When I graduated eighth grade I would imagine having many accomplishments in high school. I began my freshman year in Joliet West when I was fourteen years old. At the age and at that age many teens are not thinking about their future yet. As months past I realized how bad I was doing in school but never did anything that would help me. Now, that I am a senior I came to realize how things would have been different if I would have asked for help when I needed it. I experienced failure by not passing many classes within my years of high school because of my poor choices. My freshman year I wasn’t on track with mostly anything, my grades in my classes were way off the average. The average would be at least a C in every class. I believe that being
As young girl with big dreams I imagined my senior year of high school to be one of the best years of my life. I imagined going to homecoming with all of my friends, being the captain of the varsity soccer and cheerleading teams, going to Friday night football games, going to Prom with my perfect date, and going on a senior trip with all of my best friends. I never imagined my senior year to be the way that it is. I am the new kid.
Fellow students of Nobles, imagine you finally reach the summit of a mountain you had been planning to climb for three years now: a time when you physically pushed yourself so hard that your body no longer cooperates, but you were able to keep going anyway. What about the feeling of doing well on a test after giving up six hours of your last weekend to studying for it? Even something as simple as crossing the last item off of your to-do list produces the same feeling. I’m know we have all felt this euphoria at some point. Nothing is more rewarding than completing goals you set for yourself.
My High School life has helped shape the way for my college experiences that I will face. My senior year in high school is not the same as many other high school students. I am taking many advanced classes to help me prepare for college. These classes help me better understand exactly how much harder I must work to succeed.
My most meaningful accomplishment was making it through my first year of high school. However, it wasn’t the schooling that proved difficult. It wasn’t a social anxiety problem or having to eat the cardboard they served for lunch daily. It was the running. Literally running. My school had joined the state initiative to make sure that every student completed at least one year of an athletic program before graduation. Yet, I failed to think of a sport where being underweight and lanky helped at all. So I ran track, specifically the 1600 meter race thinking, “What the hell at least if I collapse it won’t be because I got tackled by Ray Lewis’s cousin right?” I remember always walking up to the starting line with my heart in my throat and the track
I was given this life because I'm strong enough to work for it. I'm not a Spartan by blood, nor a missionary on a quest, but I am persistent like one. I aspire to establish my objectives into reality because I'm the man in the mirror who’s going to make a change. I use to think great things came from the success I achieved, and failure, on the other hand, was unnecessary in my perspective. As of result, I was blinded like if I placed a wet towel to my face without noticing because I was given academic excellence awards, honor roll awards, haap awards, sports awards and community work awards; even though I was proud of these accomplishments. I started to alter the true purpose of these awards by thinking I was doing enough, but what I should
I found out about the program from, who attended the program. Although I have had several accomplishments that I am very proud of, the accomplishment that comes first to mind was winning first place in a series of three chess tournaments where excellent performance in the previous tournament is required to gain entrance into the next. In the first tournament I competed against members of my school in a round robin format which was held over several weeks. I ranked among the top four from this tournament as a result was eligible to move on to the next tournament where I faced the top placing students from other schools in my county.
My greatest achievement thus far is reaching my senior year in college. This upcoming semester I will be entering my senior year at Long Island University, where I am currently studying Diagnostic Medical Sonography. Being accepted into this highly competitive Diagnostic Medical Sonography (DMS) program, which only took 12 students the year I applied, was just another key in that accomplishment. The DMS program takes a lot of focus, dedication, and ambition to finish out. With 12 hour-long days, I still found time for homework, studying, and my CF regimen. While doing that I also managed to finish out my junior year with 3.3 GPA which is hard for any student, especially one that has Cystic Fibrosis and Diabetes. I hope to soon be able to say
Personal Essay I’ve always have seen myself as a very independent and motivated person who goes for the things I want. There were a lot of key moments during high school that helped me to grow as a student that I would like to share with you. When I entered high school, I was very scared because I was at the bottom. I felt that I had to reach certain standards and to really focus on my grades to get through my four years of high school. On every homework assignment, and tests that were given I would always make sure to improve on the ones that I missed.
And now, not much has entirely changed in my outlook for high school. I still see how it will be more challenging, how I will be pushed to be the best student that I can be. But also, now, I see that high school is a perfect fit for me. How my thoughts in 8th grade all lead up to what I want out of the 9th grade, a challenge. I want to be pushed to my greatest potential, I want to be given hard work, be forced to increase my managing skills, etc.
Out of all the trophies I collected over the years from playing various sports, the biggest accomplishment I have ever achieved is making my way into college and starting my path to becoming a teacher. The experiences I have had in my field experiences and tutoring students brings me so much joy. The only way to describe it, is to say teaching fills me with more intrinsic rewards than anything I have known. I am proud to say I graduated from Boerne High School as a Greyhound. I played soccer for the Greyhound’s Varsity team starting my freshman year and, sadly, had to call it quits after a knee injury prevented me from going further with my soccer career.
An accomplishment that I achieved came from a failure that occurred my high school freshman year when I went out for the wrestling season. I had never wrestled and I wasn’t a very aggressive person, which made me unset for this type of sport. When I began I would constantly lose, match after match and I would be frustrated yet fine with my loses because it was only my first year. I continued practicing at full effort because I knew that with harder training I would be capable of improving. I ended that season without any wins, yet the experience was amazing, I loved the concept of the sport and felt great about myself going out there and trying something new.
Good afternoon everyone. Friends, family, staff members, honored guests and fellow graduates. On behalf of the Grad Class of 2016, we were selected by our class to give some parting words. Today is our day. After thirteen years of knowing only these walls around us, our time here has come to an end. We are officially stepping forward into our futures. No longer united on one path, as we are now branching off on our own, taking our own paths.
High school has been an irreplaceable experience for me. It has been a very hilly road with many ups and downs. I look back to freshman year and it is hard to believe that in only a couple months I will have reached my first destination out of many more. I feel like my high school experience has prepared me very well for college. Overall, I feel like I have been equipped for not only college, but also life as a whole. I have learned how to work with others and express what I think in a respectful manner. I have developed great skills and have found the real me. My experiences are the ones that have molded me into the confident person I am now.
Time flies so fast. Looking back, my high school is just like a movie, a lot of things happened. High School is four years of growing up and probably a time in your life where you go through the most changes. In high school you are able to discover yourself and find out who you are as a person. Each year is special and unique in their own way. My journey through high school was a tough one, especially because I decided to not only focus on academic work but also to invest quality time in extra curriculum activities. I wanted more than just academic excellence; I wanted to be a leader, I wanted to add value to every aspect of my life, I wanted a rounded education and not just mere schooling. My success story is what I will like to share with you; how I really made it and how this defines my personality. My journey in High School was scary, exciting, and successful.
I have made many achievements in my life. I am happy to be such an achiever at things. I remember my first achievement which was in kindergarten. In kindergarten I got on the honor roll for the first time. I was so happy, but I was just happy because my mom was happy. I didn’t even know what honor roll meant, but I finally founded out that is meant that I got all A’s. My mom was so happy for me, and I got lot of money for my A’s. After that my next achievement was that I learn how to ride a bike. When I first started to ride a bike with no training wheels I kept on falling. After I kept falling I didn’t want to learn anymore, but I saw that my little cousin was riding a bike, so I just had to learn how to ride a bike. Finally, after all the sores and burses, I learned how to ride a bike. I still fall every now and then.