I have never felt more abashed about a conflict that almost shattered my dreams. Throughout life, I never truly understood the failure of success. There are numerous accounts of failure I have strived from. However, now that I have experienced true failure, there is only one account that affected me the most that I’ll never forget. Failure is difficult to grasp and accept, especially when it nearly jeopardized my livelihood.…
he didn’t tell Logan that he needed to catch up. Our parents required us to get half B’s and half C’s: grades that weren’t great, but not too bad, either. Good grades as well as poor grades attracted attention, and attention of any kind could be disastrous. Jillian and Logan purposely answered test questions wrong so their names wouldn’t be published on the honor roll. I had to study hard to make those B’s and C’s.…
Honestly, I was less than excited to take this course. Writing 121 is a requirement for all Oregon Associates transfer degrees so it wasn’t like I chose to take the class for my own sake, and being alone having recently moved to Eugene assured me that I wasn’t going to find any familiar in the classroom or on campus at all. It’s not like I expected the course to be a breeze, but it sure didn’t seem like anything special. Having to announce my name change to the whole class wasn’t fun either, in fact it just reminded me of the reason I dropped out of high school in the first place.…
It was August 5, 2015. It was a sunny, hot day in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. For most people, it would have been a perfectly beautiful, day. However, for me, it felt like my life was ending. I got into my dad’s car and he drove my mom and me to the airport.…
Life is about making choices. Always do your best to make the right ones, and always do your best to learn from the wrong ones. In the beginning of the eighth grade I felt invincible, I was one of the many gregarious students on campus and one of my major goals at the beginning of the year was to make “A” honor roll. During the month of October I decided to involve myself into student council and run for the secretary position. Luckily my mother had a fantastic artistic ability so she helped me create the vivid posters that would go around the school.…
We are in a red Hyundai Sonata 2015 at 7:20 in the morning. My mom is in the driver’s seat, my sister is in the passenger seat, and I am sitting in the backseat behind my sister. We are driving down Meadowbrook road, going to my school. I am staring out of the window just ready to devour doughnuts and bagels. I am also ready to receive my Honor Roll award.…
It all started on an Autumn afternoon back in 2012, when my beloved mother told me that she decided that it was best for me, my sister and her to move to U.S.A. Don’t get me wrong, since I was a little girl, I wanted to travel the world, I wanted to experience new things, meet new people, talk different languages. But not at twelve. I wanted to stay in Barranquilla, Colombia; I wanted to stay with my culture, my traditions, my family and everything that I was accustomed to. However I was only 12 and my mother was the one who made the decisions.…
The last six months have been a time of transition for me. When I look back, even just to May when I graduated high school, I am astonished by how much has changed. In August, I had to make a decision unlike any I’d ever faced. It was one of those moments you knew would have a major impact on your future. I was sitting in Fort Yargo Park at a picnic table across from my mother, and we were talking about my college plans.…
If I were able to meet my high school self, he would be unrecognizable. Our image of ourselves is different, our abilities are different, and how we view the world is different. These changes, whether they are good or bad, have made me the person I am today. At the end of high school, I had the feeling that nothing could stop me.…
In 2011 as I moved on to high school I was determined that I just wanted to get it all over with and not have to worry about it anymore. Well I was wrong, as school continued to go on I was changing my state of mind. I wanted to finish school and be something more in life and make a difference. I started with eight classes, and they were okay for the most part. My favorite class was Principles of Education and Training, I Developed a thought of mind that no matter what I did I had to work in life, but the point was doing something I liked not just doing anything.…
Why College Education is Important to Me In the beginning fresh out of high school I could not wait to go on to college live alone away from my parents. I thought is was going to be the “life”. August of 2008 rolled around I was so excited. I had a boyfriend I was moving away from home meeting new people and enjoy college…
The beginning of my Freshmen year, first semester I was ready to take on the world. Through academics, sports, networking meeting new people, enjoying and giving my greatest effort towards my St. John’s experience. Having goals to meet, walking around with the utmost confidence in everything I did in life. I felt as no one could touch me in a way, I had no worries in life and was truly excitedly impatient about my future. Then “it” happened, “it” changed my whole mindset on the future.…
I've made a lot of mistakes, just like any other person, but one shining example that comes to mind when I think about growth from personal failure is my freshman year of high school. I failed English, Algebra, and Health. I had to spend three days in summer school recovering credits. My freshman year of high school was a tough year. I had a very hard time staying motivated and focused, forget being anywhere near organized.…
George Bernard Shaw once said “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself”, and from a very young age i knew that i wanted to create someone great , someone strong,someone unlike any other. When my mother found out that she was pregnant with me she had been told that she wouldn 't be able to have any more children ever ! So you see all my life i 've been faced with challenges that i 've overcome , i wasn 't even supposed to be here ! my freshman year in highschool my mother suddenly fell ill and was left partially paralyzed.…
I was once told that “as your beliefs about limits change, the limits themselves are pushed back”. I put confidence in the idea that we learn the most about ourselves when we are pushed to our limits. That we learn how far we can really go and how much we can truly endure. I was just fifteen, sitting in my ninth period art class when the desultory phone call came, that awful phone call that compelled me to drop everything and fly to Puerto Rico and rush to the hospital. By the time I got there it was too late.…