17 Years Research Paper

I’ve been lucky enough to have experienced a tremendous amount of success and opportunity throughout my life. I had always performed well in school, I took advanced courses, I got into the private high school my mother went to, and because my parents owned a little Thai restaurant since I was four, I had an extracurricular that taught me people skills and offered me more work experience than any of my peers had. When I realized that I was exceeding the expectations of my parents and those around me, I became content with not reaching my full potential. It was until much later that I realized that adopting that mindset was where I went wrong. When my high school decided not to accept me into the National Honor Society during my junior year, I was devastated.

The day we left in 1-09-2056 it was not that good of a day. We were delayed 12 hours because of one of the batteries losing power when the ship was not on. My girlfriend did not want me to go after that but we needed the money and we would get to come back in 4 years and then we would leave again. We would be gone for a total of 12 years. I would go with two more people Bob, Joe, and me. This would be the first flight all through our galaxy.

During my freshman and sophomore year I was trying to find myself, trying to find what I was good at and how I can be that "well-rounded" student everyone talks about. So I joined a bunch of sports and clubs that I really had no experience at, not saying joining new clubs/sports having no experience is a bad thing, but I did go a little overboard. I was frustrated with myself at the thought that I wasn't good at anything I joined, but I figured out why. I gave up easily and I had no passion of what I was doing. I gave up at everything I did, if I saw that I wasn't good enough, I didn't practice to get better. This was my mistake, I was scared that this failure was going to define who I was forever, but it wasn't. Summer 2016 I went on a two-week trip to Puerto Rico, I met up with my family and caught up with my cousins. I told my cousins everything about my high school days and they laughed at me. They asked "How did you expect to be good at anything when you didn't work hard for it? Anyone can be good at anything if they tried hard enough" I took that by heart. This is where I came to my senses and changed, I understood the impact of having a growth

Throughout middle school and the beginning of high school I faced many challenges with my grades. These challenges made me grow and help shape who I am today. In my early teenage years I would view my school work not important. My perspective on priorities were all wrong. As I became older and matured I realized that. I realized school is the most important thing because my future depends on how I do. I realized if I want to go to a good college and have a successful career I have to work hard in school to get there. As high school went by my grades got better and I saw a better version of myself. My grades went from C’s and D’s to A’s and B’s in all my classes. I began to be attentive in class, and be productive and take notes. I did my school

I was once asked many years ago who and what do I wanted to be. I told my parents that I wanted to be a doctor, I told my high school counselor that I wanted to be a lawyer, and I told a teacher that I wanted to teach. However, what I learned in these 10 years is that sometimes life throws at you random stuff, and you’ve got to learn how to adapt to these changes.

“It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.” Never pictured The transition from middle school to high school would be as vigorous academically as it was. I went from a middle school mentality to blossoming into a young adult. I massively flunked Algebra back in High School at age 15. This was not my most inferior failure, but was an event that left a pit in my confidence. It wholly changed the way I approached my academics and outlook on life in general. New assignments were given to me left and right. I thought I could hold the information given to me quickly enough. My approach was to wing it and try to cram all the information. I was carefree I thought that I can just get through the class without trying as hard. Little

Prior to high school, I had done well in school, but did not drive myself to . Towards the end of my eighth grade year, I had attended my brother’s award banquet and noticed that there were students winning almost every award and were recognized for being at the top of their class. At that moment I decided that I wanted to be like the students who did well, but I knew that there was a large amount of effort required. Once I entered high school, I greatly increased the effort that I put into my classes. I spent more time studying, consulting teachers, and completing assignments, all while balancing sports and other extracurricular activities. My grades had drastically improved and I knew that I had succeeded, but I wanted to achieve more. Through my sophomore and junior years, I pushed myself in harder classes, became an officer in many of my activities, and increased my involvement with new activities. Presently, I am well known by my community and school for my academic achievement and service through leadership. This chain of events has increased my work ethic, responsibility, and drive for greatness. Moreover, this experience has allowed me to develop into the devoted, confident, and disciplined person I am

With this in mind, I cut out people who tried to pull me down or who did not respect my hard work. I sacrificed banal activities like shopping or going out with friends to make time for learning and my family. Consequently, my world became smaller and I became less self-centered. I became aware of my many shortcomings - talking without thinking, procrastination, slacking off, criticizing people-and overcame them to some extent over a period of time. Since I had no one to seek solace from, every mistake and every failure forced me become a better person. For example, when I performed poorly on tests, I did not seek comfort from anyone. This way, the burning disappointment drove me to study harder next time.

When you look back on your life in 30 years, what would it take for you to consider your life successful? What relationship or accomplishments will be important on this journey?

As a child, I always loved school. Sometimes I struggled with the work but I managed to pull through. As I got older and attended middle school I struggled the most with my classwork, I didn’t think I was going to make it because of my grades, I didn’t think any high school would take me. Whenever I step foot into the classroom I always thought to myself, I’m never going to understand the work I’m never going to learn this, but then I realized grades don’t define who I am. I’m more than a letter grade. 8th grade graduation arrived, I was the only one who didn’t receive an award. During the ceremony I felt ashamed, I felt like I could’ve done better and I know I could have. I felt like I let my parents down. But that ceremony opened my eyes, I knew I was smart and I knew I had the potential to learn and expand my education. Freshman year of high school came. I was nervous, I thought I was going to fall back into the same place I was in. I proved myself wrong. All year I studied hard, up long nights, I received tutoring my freshmen year, and I maintained a 3.5 GPA throughout my high school career.

Throughout the course of my high school career, I have learned that great success can come with failure. As stated by Denis Waitley, “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” Waitley’s quote has inspired me to not only learn from my mistakes, but to use them to my advantage by learning more about myself and what I can accomplish. I have learned this best from my experience during my freshman year of high school. During the first few months I was struggling trying to adapt to my new high school curriculum and social culture, I felt as though I was an outcast by

During the eight weeks we had to do our 20 Time projects, I chose to do a study on World Hunger. When deciding what to spend my eight weeks doing, I knew I wanted it to do with a problem in the world today. I’ve always felt really passionate towards things that currently happen in our world because not only do they affect me but my neighbors, friends and community as well. Though it is saddening, trying to narrow it down to one world problem was difficult. I was surprised to find that more than 10,000 world problems are in the world today and they continue to grow every minute. As soon as I came along the possibility of learning about hunger I knew it was what I wanted to do. I was drawn to it immediately and I wanted

Ever since elementary school my grades and work ethic have been extremely important to me. I’ve always wanted to be the best at anything I did. In high school these characteristics that I had the opportunity to obtain in grade school have helped me push my education and determination further. From my freshman year until now I moved up four places in my class rank. I went from eighteenth to fourteenth. This effort wouldn't have

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure” (Bill Cosby). Reflecting back on my life I have dealt with numerous downfalls but I always bounce back. I was born in India and moved here when I was six years old. As I grew up in California I was not a bright student at first. I was enrolled in Carmichael Elementary in which I was the only one with Turban on my head, which caused me to get into a lot of fights with other students who were making fun of turban. Not knowing how to speak English at the time affected the way interacted with teachers and students. On the other hand my family always had a tight budget at home. Both of my parents worked at the store we owned which was the only source money. At school kids were always talking about their new shoes and the iPod which his or her parents got them. I didn’t get everything I wanted as a kid but as I got older I understand if did I could be a spoiled brat. When I moved from Carmichael to Sacramento and I was enrolled at Maeola R. Beitzel elementary. Going to this new school I already learned English so I made marvelous friends and was surrounded by positive people. Going from a chaos environment to this harmonious environment in part because I was speaking English, made me have unique personality .I was playing sports and growing as a student. Those years went by in no time. Now I am in high school and my family’s income has been growing. My mom changed her work to now at Jack in

As my junior year of high school progressed another obstacle approached this time it was the AP exam. I was taking Calc AB and the lessons were hard and confusing. As the day of the exam approached I felt like I wasn’t going to get the 5. My teacher made us come on a Saturday and take a mock exam, I got a 3 and my teacher told me that was not bad I still felt like I could have done way better. My teacher set a optional mock date and I decided to go and see if I could get my 5. I thought back to the times that I had been studying for the SAT and how I realized how much dedication I really put into studying. I felt like I was enjoying everything I was doing and I felt like everything around me was getting more and more pleasurable. As I worked hard and put in effort at school I started to feel more energetic and jovial due to all the A’s and B’s I was getting on the tests. Finally when the scores for the AP exam came out I logged on and noticed that I had gotten the top score: 5.