I am writing in response regarding a position in the field of finance. I am currently working in obtaining my bachelor’s degree in Finance at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. Throughout my college career, I have been faced with several challenges, but I do not always succeed. I have failed at times along the way, but I have tried my best to learn from those failures. In my resume, I have pointed out some of my academic, work, and activity highlights, but with it I have pointed out the failures behind it. I have learned that these failures are not always a bad thing or the end of my story.
I have always considered myself to be a type A person and academically gifted. I have striven to be the best I can be. When I began attending at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, I set a goal for myself. I wanted to obtain a 4.0 GPA while being in the honors program. I knew from the beginning that the honors program would require me to take extra classes that would be challenging. I was devastated when I got a B in logic my sophomore year. Not only was it a B, but it was almost a C! That experience forced me to take a step back and realize that it wasn’t
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Since I picked my major so late, I am having to take many of my prerequisite classes at the same time as other classes. This has caused me to be far behind some of my other class mates. I have realized that I have to work twice as hard to catch up. I have learned that the time and effort it is taking will be worth it in the end. Along with my academic disappointments, my past job experience is lacking. I have not had a lot of job experience, and the experience that I do have has nothing to do with my field of study. My past job experience involves working with children, not the money market. I am planning on changing that soon. In the near future I will find a job or internship that will help me gain knowledge and experience that will help me in my
My GPA is a 4.1000 and it teeters between 4.1500 and 4.1000. I haven't ever had a C and my grades are all A’s or A+’s. I also make sure I behave in class, so my work habits grades are also all A’s and A+’s. I’m consistently make sure that I keep my grades where they are and I always am striving for my best. If I do happen to get a grade I'm not fond of, I make sure that as soon as possible I get my grade back up to the desired A or A+. For instance, once I had a complex goal not met, so as soon as I could, I made sure I got my grade up. Now that goal is met and my grade for that quarter is A+. Even in the topics I don't enjoy as much, I make sure I work my hardest. I’m always trying to improve my grade with extra credits and 4.0 opportunities. This shows that I do meet the grade requirement for
Throughout my two years in high school, I have been trying to maintain a certain grade point average. I’ve passed two of my state tests already and I have yet to take my English II and U.S. History state test. I passed my Algebra I test in 8th grade with Proficient and my Biology I test my freshman year with Proficient. My grades fell off the first 9 weeks of this school year because I had a hard time understanding English II and I ended up scoring Basic on my 1st 9 weeks benchmark test. Now I have made a promise to myself that I will be advanced in everything from now on. I’ve been studying more and working in my SATP practice booklets and now my grades are improving. When I was in 2nd grade I was accepted into the Gifted/Excel class at Bentonia Gibbs up until my 7th grade year at Yazoo County Junior High. Ever since junior high, I have been in the advanced classes, and I hope that will help me with my plan to graduate as one of the top of my class.
Throughout my educational career I have always excelled in the classroom. I recently graduated high school, being in the top three percent of my class, all while being a captain in the varsity football team and working full time. My high school GPA was a 4.0, and I received many awards, including First Team All-State for academics. Currently, I have a 3.5 GPA at UTA, while working part time and being involved in various school organizations. Academics are very important for me because it represents a better, more financially stable
This fall I am retaking Chemistry and I aiming for an A. I do not think grades can fully represent one's work ethic, grit and perseverance. Personally, I have struggled with the fact that I was in special education until middle school. I was behind academically because for the first few years in my life I was almost fully deaf and struggled to learn as quickly as others. Although I was in no longer in special education classes by high school, it was already ingrained in my mind that, academically, I was not intelligent enough to fulfill my dreams of having a job that involves food and nutrition. Even with those thoughts, I still pushed myself to apply to Johnson & Wales to prove myself wrong. Thankfully, I did prove myself wrong. I just goes to show even with those negative, I came from being someone that saw no potential in myself with no proof that I was smart into someone who works hard everyday. Grades don't show that someone is in-tune with their weakness and strengths and that their emotionally intelligent enough to work on them. For example, a weakness that I have struggled with is being not being
Academics has always been an important part of my life. Ever since I was a young child my parents have pushed me to lead good life academically. All throughout grade school I have had decent grades (generally speaking in the nineties or above), and I owe this, at least partly, to my parent's determination to give me the best possible education. I also owe this to my will to be at the top of my academic game. This was naturally quite easy for me up until my senior year of high school. When my senior year came around, there was a lot of pressure on me to make a lot of life changing decisions. When all of this was put on me, the last thing that i wanted to do was change the way i was living. I loved the way my life was, and going away from home to college wasn't something that i felt i was ready to do. Because of this i decided to enroll in Genesee Community College, which is about five minutes away from my house.
I have returned to college after being out of school for several years because, I am motivated to obtain my associates degree. I want to finish what I started years ago. When I was in high school, I became discouraged with my studies due to an illness and ended up dropping out of school. A few years after that I had an opportunity to return to school and obtain an Associate’s degree. When I started the program I was doing well until my illness returned. I found myself having a hard time juggling my school work, my illness and a job. I eventually started failing classes and ended up giving up again. At this point I had once again, let life’s challenges win the battle. Looking back, I understand that I failed when I returned to school because I wasn’t mentally prepared nor was I mature enough to deal with issues as they happened. Looking back at it now I understand that I made a terrible error permitting fear to take
Many of my peers from grade school went on to four year universities with honors and scholarships. For myself graduating high school was the highest achievement thus far. I was not the most outstanding student during those years. I was insubordinate towards my educators and refused correction. I was known as a class clown and trouble maker. Unfourtantly mentally I did not consider myself to be a difficult individual, but special. I am
My goals in college are to get involved with student government, play lacrosse graduate in the top of my class all my life of being in school I was always active not just a regular student. Whether it was SGA or sports or volunteer work I was a part of it; all years of school levels I have graduated with honors and I do not want to see anything different now while I am in college. As we all know college is not a walk in the park and I am well aware of that. I have to really be on my game to accomplish my goal of graduating with honors. I am already on the way of my goal, I have already completed 3 business courses and am now on the process of taking one now. I have taken business law, introduction of business, and industrial business; I did not take them at Towson however they still transferred over as business courses.
Don't get me wrong; my parents never mandated that I take all the honors classes I could gain admission to. No one told me to take three honors classes. No one, that is, except the little voice in my head that convinced me scholarly success was based upon the number of "H's" on my high-school transcript. The counselors cautioned me not to do it, students who had fallen into the trap before warned me against it and my parents just left it up to me. Through it all, I just smiled and reassured them, "Don't worry; I can handle it." The trouble was, I didn't have the slightest idea what lay ahead.
I realize that I have been so worked-up about maintaining great academic standards in college that have hindered me from participating in social activities in college. Before I started college, I established some academic norms for myself. One of these norms is to attain “A’s in all my classes. Up till now, these norms constantly run through my mind. I found myself so self-indulge in my academic performance that I constantly check my performances in all my classes. Whenever any of my grades falls below 90-percentile, apprehension will set in.
If I am going to be completely honest I need to express my true reason for applying for the USDA scholarship. For starters, I am tired of relying on my family to help me pay for college, I want to take more responsibility for my schooling. My mother is the one who pays for my tuition since my father is now unemployed and I will not take money from him until he is fully able to support himself. This situation does not really sit well with my mother, because unlike my sister she received help from both our parents during her schooling. I am very grateful and blessed that I do have a mother who is supporting me through college since I know several people who are doing it on their own unwillingly. However, I often feel as though I am a burden towards
I always knew I wanted to do great, big things, but I felt that in due time I would know exactly what that would be. My career goals were not very clear during my start here at the college, but my educational goals definitely were. I knew I wanted to succeed by exceling in everything I did. I have always been a hard working student, and I saw college as a challenge that I wanted to excel at. Everyone always said to me that college would be very hard, and it would be difficult to obtain great grades. However I always believed in myself, and pushed myself to give the best of me possible. Through every semester I encouraged myself along the way, and I did everything I could to excel in every class, no matter what the subject was, or who the professor was. I had a clear goal to do great no matter the circumstance, and as I come closer to finishing my fourth semester, I’m proud to say I have achieved one of my goals. I have accumulated a perfect grade point average which I am very proud of, because I know it took a lot of hard work, and perseverance. This was one of the many things that I wanted to achieve her at the college, and I am glad I was able to push myself till I achieved
Despite the beliefs of many of my peers, my path towards educational success has not been easy. I was a straight A perfectionist in junior high, but when I first started high school I hung out with the wrong people, the bad crowd, and let everything I had fall apart. Negative thoughts started consume my mind, and I began to believe them, thinking I was a failure and would never be able to reach my dreams because they were 'outrageously high'.
I have always wanted to make good grades but I never really set any goals but, then I realized that setting academic goals are way more important than people realize . I then started to set goals like my sophomore year of high school after I did that it really helped me focus on my future and what I wanted for myself. My goals I think pushed me so much more academically they opened my eyes a little bit more. One Goal I set was to graduate High school with a Core 40 diploma, which I did, so that is one goal down and a bunch more to go. My senior year I started applying to college but my main goal was to make into Saint Mary-of-the Woods and when I received my acceptance letter I was ecstatic. So far, I am still trying to figure out my academic goals for college but, I do know for sure that I want to succeed in every single way that I can so I can make a better future for myself. A goal that I made this year is to make the dean’s list every single time, for this I will study so hard for every test, do all of my homework, and ask questions when I have them and maybe even getting a tutor. This challenge will probably be really tough but I believe that I can do it if I put my mind to it, and I tend to be a very determined
Living up to my resolution, I joined several clubs, both in and out of school and academic and recreational. I also met some of my very best friends in high school. Achieving all of this, friends, memberships to academic clubs and good grades, made up my first successful experience in high school. I was driven by the years in middle school and the promise that I made to myself at the end of eighth grade. Throughout my under classmen years I exceled in all subjects and thoroughly enjoyed the clubs I had joined. I think my downfall for the last two years of school was that I took for granted my good grades and as my classes got more rigorous I didn’t change the way I learned the material, but continued on the same path that I had been following my entire academic career, even when my grades were slipping slightly. Halfway through my senior year, I realized I needed to change the way I was learning the curriculum my instructors were teaching. I’ve always been the type of student to take good notes or listen to a lecture and understand everything the first time around, as was the case in elementary school and middle school. But my more rigorous classes proved to be a challenge for me and I did not know the proper way of learning the material on my own. I started by asking more questions in class and then going to my friends for help on subjects I didn’t understand. After many questions and after school tutor