If I Could Live My Life Over… Even though I’m just a sophomore in High School, there is a lot in life I wish I could do over. Like the way I treated people, some things I’ve done, people I trusted and the things I’ve said. Although if I were to redo any of those things, I wouldn’t be the person I am today. Through all my mistakes and lessons learned, I’ve really come to like the person I am today. A lot of people in the world don’t like who they are or what they’ve become for many reasons such as: looks, weight, personality, family, job, etc.
Helping people is something I just feel like I have to do and that it is selfish of me not to help a person in need. Growing up in my community and in my family I notice that people don’t really care about you they more so worry about their self. I’m from
I don’t interconnect with my pledge brothers how I should. These are the reasons why. Opening myself up to people become difficult at times. When I am inside of a new environment it takes me time to warm up and allow people to see the true me. My reasoning is because most don’t understand me, and they take my demeanor as cockiness.
I believe that, as you suggest, the ability of one such as myself to “tramp the last mile” is what could set me, or anyone else in my position apart from the rest. This quote is really significant to me because of the current challenges I am facing as I plan out my future away from home and on my own. In the past few months I have
Capitan Mark Kelly Ever since I was a young girl I have always had great dreams and high expectations for myself. Anytime I was asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I would quickly reply” a lawyer” As the years went by I still had that goal in mind, but I began to realize that I was not exactly Ivy League material. Though I did work really hard in my classes, I was still at best average. During my junior year I took my SAT’s, and cried when I got my scores back. For many years I was scared to go to college because I thought I wasn’t college material.
Some of the stories were just plain weird, and i did not really understand what was going on no matter how many times i read them. Things just did not seem to make sense until i heard some of my classmates' thoughts, and Kens too. It was not that they were difficult reading, just more or less they had ideologies behind them that i did not pick up. For example, with 'Good Country People,' i still do not understand what the point of that story was. It was just about a guy who became what he thought people expected of him to get what he wanted.
I tried to keep focus but my solitude was starting to become unbearable. Yes there were many students around but they all seemed to have their own network since they knew their classmates from their previous schools while all of my friends were in regular ed classes. I started to rebel and slacked off so much that teachers began to wonder why i was in a advanced class since they thought i couldn't hack their work load when in reality all i wanted to do was be placed in regular ed just to be with my friends. Odd and dumb reason, i know but I didn't know that at the time. Eventually I was moved from classes due to my insubordination and i was content at the time.
Online classes required self determination and a lot time. This is definitely not what I had in mind! Procrastination and grades don’t mix well and the outcome has many consequences. Happiness is hard to achieve when you are always in a rush to finish a task that was supposed to be done weeks or even months before hand. For example I waited all summer to sign up for fall classes and as a result I got stuck with most classes that other students didn’t want to take.
As well as “The making new friends” challenge. I mean why bother making new friends if you are going to lose them each year? But in the other hand, you should expect (and accept) the diversity of people. What to expect from college is not really something to specific. For example, many of us weren’t really use to studying during high school, mainly because it was so unchallenging.
You are about to become a senior in a few months! :) Becoming a senior is not always easy. Every decision you make from now on will affect your future. You have two choices, slack of your senior year or keep up that hard work for one more year. Just think about all that hard work you have done throughout the last three years; taking test, completing projects, and preparing yourself for college.