School Year Advice

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Everytime I take a look back on my high school career, I always would like to change something and hope someone would’ve gave me some advice to make my school year easier. This time I would like to give the advice I missed in order to help next year’s seniors to have a better and easier year. First thing, I would like to start off with the most important advice which is applying for free money (scholarships). I was the kind of student that would leave everything to the last minute. For example, when my teacher tells me “you have all semester to find 6 or more scholarships” I would leave it to the last minute and just look for easy scholarships to get it over with. This technique hurt me so much because this way I won’t get anything beneficial. My advice is to take this opportunity, even if you don’t want to go to college it will still help you gain some money that you don’t need to give back. This might help paying some of the expenses that you have for college or life. Another struggle I’ve faced this year is picking my major to apply to universities. Applying for colleges is stressed by itself because of how many requirements they need and how to think about …show more content…

In my freshman year I did not like to get up and present or talk about myself in front of people, but now I can confidently stand in the middle of crowded people and talk about my experience. Link Crew has given me a chance to gain experience and be able to talk to people and communicate. At first, I saw Link Crew as just a program that will give me a graduation sash and will make me look better with it, but while I was forced to communicate I learned how to stand and talk about myself. I also learned how to lead others to my advice and helped me to be a good leader. I want to say I am more stable now and understand what is my strength and weakness and that what made me have a good leadership

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