My freshman and sophomore years of high school were dreadful. In fact, they are an absolute blur in my head. While most students’ goals were to be valedictorian of the class, I spent most of my precious time trying to be that one person who had the most friends, and constantly fretted about my social life. At that moment, I failed to realize the magnitude of importance that comes with the first two years of high school. I never knew that the grades you attain can be a big indicator whether a university accepts you, or denies you. The thought of how I put my social life before my education absolutely repulsed me. I promised myself that from now on, education would be the only subject on my mind. Unfortunately, I feared that it might be too late to reverse the damage.
During my junior year, I pushed myself to limits I never knew I possessed. I put away my phone, my computer, and deactivated my Facebook. My social life will never again distract me from what was really important, my dreams, my future, and the university I will attend. I took advanced placement classes hoping that will bring up my GPA, and I took numerous amounts of health classes to gain knowledge in the medical field, a career I wanted to pursue since I was a little girl. Locking myself in my room