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Jumping Hurdles As a 17 year old girl in high school, I’ve faced many hurdles that I’ve had to overcome. We’ll just balancing out school work with after school activities is hard enough for some people, I also maintain a job where I work almost every day after school. Not only am I working and doing school, but I also maintain mostly A’s in all my classes and am on the National Honors Society. Doing this good in school and being a hard worker are very important to me and I plan to keep it up. Having a job and keeping up with school is not easy, but with the right motivation an individual can get through it. When I turned 16, my parents decided right away that I needed to get a job. I decided that I wanted to work at Tj Maxx and eventually
As many people have told me before, it is a very different ballgame than middle school’s easy going years. There is much more work, the classes are harder, and the environment is completely different. Many people’s grades may slip and they may cower in fear at the barrage of assignments they receive class after class. Unlike other people, I am confident in my ability to excel at all classes and to sustain exemplary grades. Therefore, while many are trembling in fear at the prodigious assignments and work is bombarding them from all angles, I will be at ease, knowing that whatever obstacle is thrown my way, I will conquer it and be its own
At one point I came to the conclusion that I’m either going to fail, go to summer school, or go to a school that I didn't want to attend. I felt so disappointed in myself because I knew that I could've done better. So then one day I told myself, “I can do this”. I then started to study more than I usually did, I turned in all of my missing work and my present work, and I also took an after school tutoring class
Within the past four years of my high school as “ Willis Bilagody”, have been been such a rollercoaster ride. There were the funny/fun times when the people there made it seem that way, and bumpy times; by that I mean the work and the grades. The struggles of becoming the active and successful person I am to society was because Freshman year of high school, it was always just trying to fit in. Always getting the preaches of being the hard working adult that we had to be, and that nothing is always going to be there handed down. Then came along the money. There had to be a way to have cash to spend, and oh wait, working. Working and doing yard work for people of the neighborhood was first step on becoming self-reliant. But although, I was recognized as having Insomnia, attention-deficit disorder (A.D.D.), and synthesia that didn’t stop me from going to school, or dropping out and being a loser. I just had to keep trucking, that’s when hiking/backpacking came along for me. To me hiking was my escape, “I’d always known, in the abstract, that climbing mountains was a dangerous pursuit.” (Krakauer 450). How things were applied for school sometimes.
Balancing school and a social life is a task in itself but, adding an Eagle Scout project - also College Applications - makes everything even more backbreaking. I had to turn down going to the movies or eating at restaurants with my friends to work on my project. As a teenager turning down a fun time is painful because, I could either be bored doing monotonous paperwork or, be entertained for two hours. To the average teenage mind, the answer is effortless but I need to look at the long-term effects. If I have fun for a few hours, that will only be satisfying for that amount of time, but I travail the mountain of work now, my life will be so much more surmountable. So through the ordeal of paperwork, I versed an important lesson, accomplishing a tenacious task before having fun and, doing it completely enables one to have more time. The largest task I faced, however, was working with other
Juggling work and school, finding time for having fun, and liking what someone does, these are some of the problems that plague young adults today. If a person that fits those requirements is looking for a little extra income, this writer knows just what the doctor ordered. Working as a waiter is a very fulfilling job, especially for a young adult student. With flexible hours and uniforms, decent pay, and working in a fun atmospherewith many different types of people, being a waiter is an excellent job for a student.
My story began on a cool summer’s night twenty short years ago. From my earliest memory, I recall my father’s disdain for pursuing education. “Quit school and get a job” was his motto. My mother, in contrast, valued education, but she would never put pressure on anyone: a sixty-five was passing, and there was no motivation to do better. As a child, my uncle was my major role-model. He was a living example of how one could strive for greatness with a proper education and hard work. At this tender age of seven, I knew little about how I would achieve my goals, but I knew that education and hard work were going to be valuable. However, all of my youthful fantasies for broader horizons vanished like smoke when school began.
As one young person was heard to remark, “You can’t get a job without experience, and you can’t get experience without a job.” That dilemma can be overcome, however, by starting work early in life and by accepting simpler jobs that have no minimum age limit and do not require experience. Jobs Teens Can Do Begin early at jobs that may not pay especially well but help to establish a working track record: delivering newspapers, babysitting, mowing lawns, assisting with gardening, and the like. Use these work experiences as springboards for such later jobs as sales clerks, gas station attendant, fast-food worker, lifeguard, playground supervisor assistant, and office staff assistant (after you have developed basic office skills). As you progress through these work exploration experiences, try increasingly to get jobs that have some relationship to your career plans.
Firstly, my transcript reflects my skill sets and abilities by working two jobs. Working as a teenager can be very stressful and hard. Majority of teens might agree that having a job while in high school is tough considering homework and just life in general. While working in school, you have to understand your priorities and make sure your time is being spent wisely. Making time for things is not always easy either. Seeing a student take care of their responsibilities and making sure they continue to have good grades shows more than people think about that
Growing up I was always the go-to guy when it was out of both my parents reach. Reading and trying to translate government letters my parents would get in the mail, selling and trading trucks on craigslist, ordering phone cases, etc. I was about 13 and did my all to satisfy everyone's favor. A lot of the ti
There are many things that contribute to the everyday life of a student and their successes, most of which include the unique situations and experiences they go through. Personally, I believe the biggest factor that has affected my educational career is my mental health. Growing up while struggling with a mood disorder and a panic disorder has been incredibly difficult for me and has made school seem like an endless trek into nothing. However, every day I face life head on and strive to achieve the high goals I set for myself. Since I’ve been diagnosed, I’ve made it a goal to help others struggling with similar issues and frequently look for community service opportunities to make a difference. Despite my constant internal struggle, I have
Balance. A word I’ve heard so much once I began high school…balance your schedule, balance your academic and social life, balance time with family and friends , balance your budget…whew! It can be exhausting finding balance. I believe this element of having balance is the key to achieving success academically and personally. Looking at my high school years as a whole, I would say they’ve been successful. I’ve been blessed to have experienced many valuable elements of life, by the ripe old age of 17! While I may not graduate the valedictorian of my class, academically, I have rendered and maintained a respectable GPA while successfully taking on many AP and dual credit courses, as well as juggling a life outside the classroom. Along with
That summer after school I just wanted to find a job and start making some money. Going to college for anther four year was something I thought I could not handle. I final got a job at UPS unloading trucks. At first I thought how hard could it be? But every day I would come home exhausted from working in the heat. And then when I got tiny pay check, it hit me. From then on I decided that manual labor was something that I could not do the rest of my life and I could definitely not support a family on that income. A job behind a desk in the air conditioning was what I wanted.
There are two main obstacles that stand in my way. The first obstacle that will interfere with my success is a lack of materials. Particularly cash to buy books and internet for school work. Although I don’t have an answer for my lack in money, I may end up getting internet later in the year. If that’s not possible than I will work around this obstacle. The other obstacle that i will face is the late time that I get home. I usually get home after six o'clock, but this isn’t too much of a problem since I will simply stay up later to finish work.
A dream of mine has always been to be the first in my family to go to college and receive a degree. In order to succeed, I knew I had to learn to manage my disability. Even though, it takes me longer to prepare for school I have found methods to help me succeed. I listen to alternative music to block out distracting noises, and organize my work by prioritizing and using color-coded folders for each subject. A week before major exams, I start preparing by studying and mapping out my time, making this typically stressful week more manageable. These strategies, and many others, help me surpass expectations. Finally, I accomplished some of my goals. I received Dean's List honors all four years during high school. In addition to academics, I use my study habits to partake in extracurricular activities. The position as the Editor-in-Chief for my school's yearbook required me to manage my time and manage it we...
High school is a very stressful yet exciting time for all students. Whether or not a student is involved with extracurricular activities like athletics or academics every student becomes busy and creates a tight schedule. It is difficult to balance academics and athletics with a normal social life. Students have a job on top of extra academic events, athletic events, and social events. Working and non-working students are students that have common responsibilities, but they have to be assiduous students in different ways.