Commencement Speech: Main Struggles In Middle School

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Commencement Speech 2018
Imagine if you didn’t have any problems and everything was fair throughout your middle school and even high school years. Do you think that you would be prepared to go into adulthood after being so accustomed to having no dilemmas whatsoever? School will be unfair as well as the rest of your life, so the problems that you encounter during school will do nothing but make you stronger for the future. My main struggle in middle school was to maintain high grades while juggling sports, friends, and other activities. Now, the main idea I want you to take from my speech is to control yourself and move on if nothing can be done. There will be many moments in middle school that can be difficult, but as a student at Downing …show more content…

This was extremely important to me because I had both soccer and piano to go along with my schoolwork. The United States Census Bureau has found that 57% of children have at least one extracurricular activity outside of school. This means that almost 6 out of 10 children have to manage their time very well if they want to be successful in school and their other activities. An example of an occasion where I had to manage my time was when I had a soccer tournament along with a project to do for school. Every time I got home that weekend, I would almost immediately get to working on it because I knew that I had a very tight schedule. I finished the project that weekend before my last game, which I was very happy about, and I thought it turned out pretty good too. However, I knew that if I had played instead of working on my project, I could’ve been awake very late that night. Another occasion where I had to manage my time was this one weekend where I had a soccer game and two birthday parties to attend along with a project to complete. I worked hard on the project because I knew that I would have breaks and time for fun later, so that was what I mostly concentrated on when I was home. You have to be very self controlled to manage your own time and you will have much nicer work as a

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