play of my high school career. Tommy ran out into his curl route while on the other side of the field Dan had started his post. I took the fake hand off and sprinted towards the sidelines. Ben scanned the field, looking for any play he could make. Dan was covered tight and Tommy was double teamed. The double team on Tommy had left me wide open outside the hash marks and would have to be the one to make the play determining everything we all worked so hard for our last 4 years of high school. I put…
Words 1607 - Pages 7
Transcript I, personally, am proud of how my grades have looked in my high school career. I always tried my best to maintain a 3.7 or higher GPA and I feel that I have done a swell job at doing that. There have been times where I studied profusely and went to tutoring after school to make certain that I pass a test or quiz. I feel that those times were well spent because in the end I received satisfactory grades. I regret none of the hard work spent because I know that the knowledge I absorbed has…
Words 322 - Pages 2
As my high school career comes to an end, I owe it to myself and my family to further my education. I come from immigrant parents who did everything they could to give me opportunities, opportunities that they did not have growing up in Mexico. My parents sacrificed their whole lives coming to a foreign country, only speaking spanish so that i could have this chance. I want to make my parents proud. Growing up i didn’t have a lot,being the youngest of four with immigrant parents who speak broken…
Words 300 - Pages 2
Sitting in 9th grade pre-ap english, at Chaffin Junior High, was when I realized that english was definitely not one of my strong subjects. We started reading Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, I hated it. This determined the rest of my high school career. I realized that I was more of a logical thinker, and I enjoyed my math and science classes because they focused on rules and laws that were set in stone, unlike english or art that had a little bit more space to work around with. Everything had it’s…
Words 772 - Pages 4
with me all through high school. There I was in freshman year of high school with pottery as my only honors. And all I could think about was that he was right. My grades from middle school were mediocre, but that was not gonna stop me from trying. Furthermore my main motivation to go against what this teacher had said was my parents. Knowing that they both sacrifice so much for me to go to school, I wanted to push beyond what that teacher said. My father had to leave school and start working at…
Words 293 - Pages 2
The most significant challenge I have faced is my lack of effort I put into school because I felt like I was smarter than the rest of my peers, Most of my Junior High and High School career has been spent not putting in effort into my classes and cruising because of my natural talents. Because of this, I nearly consistently got a 3.6 GPA since about the 7th grade while procrastinating on all my homework. I first started to get complacent with my school efforts when I was very young, I was always complimented…
Words 443 - Pages 2
As a seventeen-year-old high school senior on his way to the experience of university life, I seem to have a plethora of unnerving sensations when thinking about my future. I am a strong optimist who believes that anything is achievable if one is passionate enough about their goal. There so many objectives I want to accomplish in life, but the challenging aspect of achieving them would definitely be the execution of said goals. Over the past few years of my high school career, I have gained many different…
Words 596 - Pages 3
I hold a high standard for myself and have many goals in life I wish to accomplish, being accepted into the National Honor Society is one of them. I believe that I should challenge myself in everything I do. I have learned that the comfort zone is the most dangerous place to reside, and being complacent will never allow me to succeed in any aspects of my life. My willingness to not only persevere but to thrive, is a quality that is meant for the National Honor Society. I feel that I have eminent…
Words 406 - Pages 2
classes by my Junior year of high school, ever since I was in seventh grade at Crispus Attucks; neighbors of IUPUI. For the reason that Crispus Attucks High School challenges their students academically, I was ahead of the game. Entering my Freshman year of high school without fear, I took my first AP English class with Mr. Dearing, a sophisticated, tall, bald, white man, who fails at being humorous. At this instant, when I stepped into his classroom on the second floor I could already sense my writing…
Words 1194 - Pages 5
with a personal narrative. I share her sentiment for the importance of storytelling as a developing critical race theorist. She emphasizes her reasoning by stating, “I tell this story both because storytelling is a part of critical race theory and because this particular story underscores an important point within the critical race theoretical paradigm” (1998). Here is my story. In 1996, I entered my first year of high school at George Washington Carver High School. Very early in the school year we…
Words 1773 - Pages 8