College Admissions Essay: No Excusess In High School

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.

These strengths include organization, participation, and creation of checklists. I feel I stay very organized in this class, as I have all of my documents organized inside my binder ready for a notebook check. In regards to participation, I try my best to raise my hand nearly every class. I stay active and focused so that I can obtain all of the information. I also ask questions frequently which helps me to avoid mistakes or any confusion. My final strength, the fact that I create checklists, has benefitted me immensely. Checklists help to make sure all requirements are met for any project or essay, which is how I received a 91 on my Pilgrim Presentation and an 85 on my Canterbury Tales Short Essay. Checklists have helped me to score higher on assignments with multiple requirements, but not all assignments were as simple as creating a

One of my biggest strengths is time management. Over the years I have learned that good time management skills are a vital skill when dealing with the trials of classes, work, friendships, and family. I will use this strength to successfully manage all of these trials. One other strength I acquire is determination. I have set goals for myself, and I will push myself to achieve these goals. All in all, my strengths may be great but I feel as if they fall short when I am going through difficult times. Since this has been brought to my attention, I plan to work towards changing how this affect me.

Looking back at the years that I have completed in high school is a funny but a true life changer. If I was to go back to one year of high school I would want to go back to freshman year. One reason why I would want to go back to freshman year is to talk to myself. Another reason I would want to go back it tell myself to listen more. The last reason would to see if I could improve myself in any way.

So far, the 14 years of my life have been exciting and crazy. The places I have gone, the people that I have meet, are all part of my crazy life. Not all the things are good, but not all the things are bad. Everything that has happened over these 14 years have been an equal balance of both, these are the things that have contributed in making me who I am today.

Being able to recognize my own strengths and weaknesses has help me become a better person in everything I have chosen to do in life. One of my strengths would be patience. This strength has lead me on a less stressful path to raising my seven-year-old son. When dealing with my son, whether it is during game time or school work, patience on my behalf makes me have self-control and not get anxious or become irritated. One of my weakness I would have to say is public speaking. Thanks to the speech class I took in college, I have learned to hide my fear while doing a presentation in front a big group of people, even though I begin to blush and I break

My strengths and weaknesses as a student would honestly have to be to just stay quiet and not get many friends only have one or two the rest just keep as your acquaintance increase you would need to use them for anything else. Outside of school have as many as you would like but inside of school only have two more than that is too much and would tend to cause drama. That’s something I definitely learned the hard way and would most definitely say is my weakness, not knowing when to stop. As for a strength, it’s most likely having a creative mind and courage to keep going regardless of

Have you ever thought about your personal strengths? A few of my personal strengths are that I am a good lacrosse player, am a good leader, and a good thinker. I have played lacrosse since second grade. For my leadership, I was selected to be the Zion house leader. I always find loopholes and additionally, different connections to things, this is my strength in thinking. These are a few of my personal strengths.

Another strength is self-confidence. I am highly confident personally as well as professionally to talk to and handle the customers. I got appreciation on comment letter by guest so many times. I am confident enough to talk diplomatic way with my co-workers and managers when needed. On my lower strengths, I found out that I totally get upset and very tense while working on my assignments. The assignment I am doing if something from it cannot understand made me very irritating and frustrated. I am very reserve personality because I don’t like to approach others without any concerns. It is hard for me to focus on different issues on one time. Strengths is something like make you feel power when you finish the task. For instance, I have been working on my final paper since we start the semester three weeks ago, and now that aim almost done I feel energizes spiritually even though I feel exhausted physically. Learning these basic skills in class have help grow professionally. Uncovering hidden strengths will allow you growing and transformation to

While being in high school, I was ready to get out and start college. I always heard about how great college was and I want to experiences for myself. I expected college to be laid back and pretty cool. My hopes were to have fun, meet new people, and continue to make good grades. Now that I am in college, I can say that I am actually doing what I wanted.

It seems like all my friends have been making the decision to continue their high school education, and I’m truly happy for them—I really am. But I’m not going to lie, when that call comes and they inform me of their decision to stay in high school another year, the joy is a little bittersweet. I hear the excitement in my friends’ voices and do my best to share in it and be supportive, but in those moments, I can’t help but think about myself and get sort of envious. I guess I’m a classic case of always the broke college kid, and never the carefree high schooler.

In high school we think that everything matters. Yes, in the long run the huge decisions we make do matter, but who you date, and what sport you’re in, may not matter in the real world. We all believe that we belong to a certain…’cliche’. When in reality that’s just who we decide to be friends with. As for me some may say i'm not the most popular and that i'm lacking style, putting me in the ‘geek/lameo’ category. People need to realize that labels don’t matter.

Despite having played the flute for over 6 years now, I can still never quite shake the feeling of nervousness upon a performance. No matter how much I practice or how easy it really is, the fear of failure always finds me. There was one time in particular where I was to play the national anthem alone, for the first time. Not only was I panicking over the amount of people I had to play in front of, but also because I knew the “Star-Spangled Banner” is so iconic that if I messed up, I would certainly die of my own shame. I stood backstage, much too tense to even sit. Through sweaty hands I kept going over the fingerings; I couldn’t afford to mess up… it had to be perfect. In the final minutes before the ceremony commenced, my panic grew only

Trying to decide what your personal strengths are, is hard. For myself, I have grown in my strengths, and I’ve experienced my weaknesses. My personal strengths consist of: positivity, encouragement, laughter, and love. I pick these four because I feel that I am truly strongest in these aspects of my life. Being positive is a big factor in everything I do. I always want to be happy and joyful; not only to display Christ in me, but to make others feel the way I do. I want others to appreciate life and to feel any kind of uplift in his or her spirt. Positivity plays into encouragement. I make it my goal to make others feel better about themselves. My goal coming into college was to learn and know every person(s) name that I got the chance to meet. Just taking a few minutes out of your day to truly get to know someone, is such a blessing. It not only blesses me in new friendships, but it also blesses others because they feel that someone genuinely cares about them. Laughter is another characteristic I strive to pour out onto others. I laugh at practically everything. I love to laugh, and I love to make people laugh. I’ve learned the importance of laughter, and I just want to make one person smile every day. Love is my last of the four attributes. Love is so important to me. I love creation (Trees, birds, squirrels), God, and I love people. I just want the love that God has given me, to pour out onto others. I want others to know that I love them. These are my personal strengths

My personal strengths are that I am a keen learner and organized person because like Benjamin Franklin I believe that if I fail to plan then I am planning to fail. Above all I am confident that I have made the right choice and that I am a suitable candidate for