My Goals And Aspirations

This was the path I was suppose to take, I felt like I needed to get out and prove everyone who doubted me about going to college wrong and not just some tech school a couple of minutes down the road or a school in my town. Majority of my classmates always made jokes about me not going to college and being the kid that peaked in high school. Not wanting to be known as that guy, I buckled down at the beginning of senior year and started making the moves needed to take that next step to go to college. Finding motivation in myself, I started to excel in my school work and put the pieces together. After taking the standardized test needed for college and filling out applications I started to receive feedback from colleges.

This was the path I was supposed to take, I felt like I needed to get out and prove everyone who doubted me about going to college wrong and not just some tech school a couple of minutes down the road or a school in my town. Majority of my classmates always made jokes about me not going to college and being the kid that peaked in high school. Not wanting to be known as that guy, I buckled down at the beginning of senior year and started making the moves needed to take that next step to go to college. Finding motivation in myself, I started to excel in my school work and put the pieces together. After taking the standardized test needed for college and filling out applications I started to receive feedback from colleges.

The words of my parents and teachers went in one ear and out the other. “School just wasn’t interesting to me” My senior year of high school I decided to dedicate my self to school work. All I did was take school a little more seriously and pay attention. Before you know it I had made the honor roll for the first time and continue to make it the rest of the year. Finally the extra work was reflecting in my grades.

High school is stressful, especially senior year, cramming for tests, late nights researching and writing papers, applying to colleges, and much more. Going from the stress of trying to pass high school to the stress of trying to adjust to college never gives anyone the time and ability to just relax and learn about themselves. Other countries encourage high school graduates to take a ‘gap-year’, which is a year off between high school and college. In a gap-year one could do several things, such as: travel to a different country, volunteer overseas to help a developing country, learn about a different culture, maybe take a few internships to gain insight on different careers. In the process of those adventures one may even discover something

Decisive Moment Having consistently received A’s and B’s in the past, I shocked myself when I failed both semesters of AP Calculus AB. That happened sophomore year and it struck me like a bolt of lightning. I had negative thoughts about my success in the future and it impacted me greatly. For awhile, I questioned and asked myself why I did not study hard like the other students. I also feared that I would not be able to get into the university I wanted.

I took the LSAT in my senior year of college, was accepted almost everywhere I wanted to go, but at the last minute “freaked” that I was making the wrong decision. My fear was two-fold: was I making a rash decision, and would a career as an attorney allow adequate mental stimulation? I chose not to attend, instead embarking on a very different path for the next ten years. My gold traits are very strong, though not as much as my green traits. My gold tendencies are loyalty, need for efficiency and responsibility.

I received my first letter and it was a letter of rejection. I was devastated, but I knew that I will get an acceptance letter eventually and I did. The acceptance letters I got were mostly colleges I did not want to attend. My college counselor and my parents were letting me consider a community college for the first year or two but I knew that I would not see myself going there . So I had to work hard that whole semester in order to get a higher GPA and to show schools that I was approving since I did apply early.

Why did I choose to come to college? I choose to come to college so I could further advance my skills and career opportunities. When first coming to college I thought it was going to be a piece of cake, but was I wrong. You had to already know how to study, take test and have perfect time management skills, and I did not have any of those. I ended up dropping many classes my first year in college and failing one or two, and not having that great of a grade point average.

When I came to college, I knew grades were important but I did not realize how challenging it was to get above a 3.0 in college. Studying in college for tests is a completely different concept than in high school. Students have to put everything into studying for tests and not just cram 10 minutes before the test, or start writing a paper 3 hours before it is due. Most people at Ole Miss are doing this, and I do not think they are going to get very far in school. It feels so much better knowing I am trying my best in my classes

But as high school quickly came to an end I realized that I was not as well prepared for college, as I would have liked. By the time I was a senior I began concentrating more on my studies, and less on other things. Once I started applying myself, my grades improved, and so did my attitude about my education. Senior year flew by before I knew it, and I still had to take my SAT's. I was sick with bronchitis, but had to take them because it was the last available date.