Coming Into High School: Student Analysis

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Coming into high school, I had this mentality of strictly focusing on academics and kept the goal of getting valedictorian in the back of my mind. Although I’ve always valued my family, friends, and hobbies, in the past my academic life seemed to take up the majority of my efforts and time. Looking back at my freshmen and sophomore years, I’ve come to understand that I didn’t know how to balance my time wisely. However, around the beginning of my junior year, I sought to pursue the extracurricular activities I was passionate about, but never thought I’d have enough time to do. Originally, my thought process that doing more would become a stressful distraction from my academic goals kept me from trying new things. Nevertheless, I endeavored

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