Describe extracurricular activities, including leadership positions, in which you have participated. I Played basketball in the ninth grade. I am currently the Vice president of HOSA. I am a member of Leo club, Mu Alpha Theta, National Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society, Spanish Club, and French Club . Describe your employment experiences, including positions held, job responsibilities, and dates of employment. I job shadowed a local Pharmacist over the summer. Describe a significant experience, achievement, or failure in your life and its effect on you A significant failure in my life was failing the first AP chemistry test I took. This pushed me to study harder and gave me motivation to do good in the class. At the end of the year I was
The biggest failure I experienced was back during my Sophomore year. The hardest class in the high school was AP World History in which the requirements were hours of homework a night. Many people tried to convince me not to take the course due to the fact that it is considered the hardest class in the high school. My mom tried her hardest to try and persuade me to take a different class but I felt that it was a requirement for me to take it to prove to the colleges that I was up for the task and that I was prepared to do the work necessary to succeed in college. The course required reading a whole chapter in the text book in three days and take a quiz to prove that we read and understood the topics. This is where I struggled the most because memorizing the chapters and the major topics was very difficult unlike others who could recited the
One time I experienced failure was when I was trying out for an indoor field hockey league. The field hockey league had three different teams, the academy (the lowest), elite (the middle team), and high-performance (the highest). I was very eager to begin the indoor field hockey season and I had high hopes that I would make the highest team. On the day of tryouts, I had a major case of butterflies in my stomach but I was still eager to start the season. However, as soon as I stepped on the field the nerves began to take over my whole body and I became quite timid. I did ok in the skills portion but when it came to the scrimmage I chickened out a bit. The girls trying out were big and strong and had amazing skills and I instantly began to think I was
A time that I experienced failure was when i failed my Algebra II class for first semester. My biggest error was that I didn’t retake my quizzes that i failed when i had the chance too. The first 3 months i didnt really tried, I would tell myself that I had a lot of time for the semester to end. However, i regretted it when i found out that i only had a few weeks for the semester to end. I stressed out the last weeks, I couldn’t go to sleep in the night. I would keep thinking of my grade and how i was going to fail the class. I knew that colleges were gonna see my grades for this year, my junior year. I really want to go to college, I want to make my parents proud. The last weeks, i did everything that i could. I did all the missing homework, and I tried to
Failure is something I have to accept. I have failed a lot in the past, and I have allowed those failures to effect me in the present. As a young boy in grade school, I would always work hard to obtain good grades. After my first semester
Failure can be a very difficult thing to cope with. It can be something that makes you or breaks you. I have learned that failure is what defines a person; it shows your motivation to bounce back when things get rough. I have learned from my failure instead of dwelling on it and making myself weaker.
Failure is a part of life. While many see failure as a negative thing, I have started to see it as a situation that can make you a better person. Failure drives me to never make that mistake again. I first realized this when I took my first AP class and AP exam and received a score of 2. This journey all started sophomore year when I took AP World History. I quickly learned that I needed to actually read and take notes to be able to succeed in the class. It took a few poor grades on essays and tests for me to understand this. Despite this new revelation, I still struggled in the class. When it came time to start reviewing and preparing for the exam, I put an immense amount of effort, but not as hard as I should’ve been. Exam day came and
Throughout my life, I have been through many different things. I have been through struggles and successes. I have been through multiple setbacks and breakthroughs. There is one specific setback, however that is very important to me that I overcame. It was not easy, but I finally did it. This setback took place during the time between when I entered high school and the end of my sophomore year.
Since a very young age, I have been involved in community service and extracurricular activities. I started playing sports at the age of three, beginning with gymnastics. Soon after, I joined many other sports teams, including, dance, soccer, and softball. In middle school and throughout high school, I ran track and cross country and continued playing soccer. Senior year of high school,
I consider this as a failure because I had to learn how to deal with this. Now I know what helps me, and what does not help me. I learned a lot from this experience to not fail
Failure the one thing we all experience and hate but it's apart of life. One of the most memorable times of failure I have experienced came in track & field. During my junior indoor track season at Highland Springs I hadn't had much success in the events I competed in which were the 300 meter dash, 500 meter dash and the 4x4. After having a rather disappointing season I went to coach before the start of outdoor track and asked him how I could not only help my own success but help the team's success as well. He responded by telling me I should become a hurdler, that was one of the most shocking moments of my life never did i think i'd be hurdling. The next day of practice the first thing I did was go to one of my teammates who hurled and had
Failure to me is something that can sometimes lower your self-confidence. An example of failure in my mind is when I make lower than an 80 on a test or assignment. I do not believe I was as prepared for the Early College as I thought I was, and this has been very overwhelming and difficult. My grades throughout school have always been A’s and B’s so when I started at the Early College juggling high school and college classes made things more complicated. I have never experienced this before so my initial thoughts were to give up and return to East Montgomery. Testing has never been my strong point but I have always been able to study and make the grades I knew I could do.
Failing can happen with whatever, whether it's riding a bike, taking a test, talking to people, or just plain walking. The importance of failing is that the lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success. My people will tell stories on how they failed at something and then were able to improve from that. Well here's my story.
There are lessons we take from obstacles that prove to be fundamental in future success. I have been through many setbacks but one which affected me the most was almost having to repeat the fourth grade due to me not trying hard enough to complete the work assigned to me. Throughout my fourth grade school year I was constantly told to try a little bit more because not doing so could result in being held back but I did not listen until near the middle of the year. After learning my grades were low and could possibly be held back I decided that I should have my head in my school work but bringing them up would prove to be a challenge. Weeks after learning of this I put in my best effort and slowly my grades began to rise and when the third quarter
Traditionally, failure is seen as a negative concept and is defined as lacking success. I, on the other hand, try to put a positive spin on everything in life. I see failure as an obstacle that is experienced by all, but it does not define an individual. Failure in essence will force an individual to be more receptive to their surroundings and actions and also will force an individual to mature. Looking back on my childhood years I can now pinpoint the areas where I failed and I can confidently say that I have grown and prospered due to those failures. The three major failures I have experienced were my attention deficit issues which affected my ability to succeed in school, my anti-social habit that I let consume my early years, and my
Yet another example of a failure that became instructive was when I tried to tile my bathroom floor. I simply did not want to dish out the big bucks to have a worker do my tiling, which I assumed would be an easy job. I bought the necessary items and dove into the project with an eager do-it-yourself attitude and absolutely no clue about what I was doing. I tried diligently to tackle the task, but in the end, I only managed to get grout everywhere and