Friends, Intelligence, and Confidence

Throughout life, one develops their own characteristics that make them who they will be for the rest of their lives. In that interesting life, however, there must be important moments that highlight your personality, and overall make you the crowing person you are today. Whether that moment be life-searingly painful to remember, there are others that are so memorable because they were a time of great jubilation. These are the ones that we usually choose to make our lives encircle. Personally, there are many events that lead me up to becoming the honors student, actor, and “ladies-man” that I am today. When I attended KEY Camp at Casper College the summer of my fifth grade, it taught me three important lessons, which were the power of friendship, intelligence, and confidence.

It was late in the year of fifth grade, and the feeling of summer was setting in. Cody Baumstarck, Jason Wang, and I were all over by the closet talking about random subjects, none of which had any relation to the subject supposedly being taught by the instructor, Mr. St. Clair. In all actuality, I’m pretty sure he was sleeping on his desk while the kids just played around for the day. Later though, we arrived from choir to notice that he had awoken, and was writing the math assignment down on the chalkboard. Cody, Jason, and I sat near the front of the room, the sound of screeching white chalk on the board was so familiar to us, as well as the groaning of noticing there was an assignment from other classmates.

To be honest, however, my friends and I had no trouble with the math, it was usually actually pretty fun. Ten minutes before the bell rang, he called us three, and two other guys out into the hallway. At first, we were scared (our elementary track re...

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...MY friend!”

With the entire realization that I could’ve only attended this college trip, it reveals that having extreme intelligence, especially at a young age, can help you with so many problems in your life, such as relationships and jobs. College isn’t just for learning, it’s for life-learning. Teachers and doctors, and the most important people in the world are all that they are because of college. Their intellectual minds allowed them that access.

With the pain of feeling regret or being rejected, one must stand up to challenges and be confident in your choices, making you a true leader. If I hadn’t won the game, my confidence wouldn’t have soared enough to be able to ask Miranda to the dance. The entire experience of KEY Camp strengthened not only my mind, or intelligence, but also my confidence, as well as my ability to make friends by making me more social.