One November afternoon during freshman year, my world around me faded. Words turned into nonsense; my grip on my pencil loosened. I suddenly lost consciousness in class, waking up to find myself surrounded by the emergency medical services soon after. It turns out I was afflicted with Neurocardiogenic Syncope- the condition of having an overactive nervous system that leads to sudden drops in blood pressure and fainting. Although my family's support and encouragement gave me solace, I was still absolutely terrified. Because the strength of my heart was severely weakened, actions, like eating, and moving, were now done in extreme moderation to prevent faint-inducing heart palpitations. I knew exercising would alleviate my handicap, but my inability …show more content…
Spending time with teachers outside of class and studying an extra three hours a day to understand class material was the new norm. Failing to meet the high academic expectations I set for myself made me realize I couldn't continue living with this handicap. My pent up feelings of anger and discontent motivated me to exercise. The summer after freshman year, my determination to improve my heart strength pushed me to start jogging every other day. It took many frightening instances of pushing myself to nearly fainting to find the balance between aerobic efficiency and overexertion. The thought of giving up would often surface, but my ambition drove me to push forward. By slowly increasing the distance of my runs from hundreds of yards a day to a mile a day, my cardiovascular system gradually improved. By the end of summer, I felt proud to be in the best shape of my life. In retrospect, I would have never recovered hadn't I taken the first step. No matter how much I struggled, even with the support of my family and teachers, it was through my own actions that I improved. Instead of being content with complacency, I now constantly challenge myself to improve my weaknesses. It was because of this experience that I now see difficulties as opportunities for
I have been going to school since I was four years old and, that means that I have been attending school twenty to twenty two years, including kindergarten, middle school, high school and now college. As every student, I had my ups and downs in school; I had some failures and some successes. One of the failures that affected me the most and that I will always remember was the time that I was in high school during my junior year. I failed almost all my classes and, I only passed two classes and with a C. In the other hand I had some really good success. The most recent one and the one that I am still happy about is getting my Family Development Credential. We learn from our mistakes and also from our successes, these two times in my life
My first failure discouraged me to the point where, I felt like I would never reach an advanced math level again. The lack of self-confidence that resulted from my sub-par math scores soon began to negatively affect some of my other classes. I quickly realized that the trend had to stop. I worked diligently to achieve what, at the time, seemed unattainable. My change in the outlook of my repeated failures helped me to finally succeed. Throughout the course of the last two years, I have grown more self-aware in my study habits. I push myself even harder when I think I have done the best I can.
For this I also took the challenge of learning everything I could and build on my knowledge. Throughout my life there has being several achievements that I am proud of just like any other person but their is one I am most proud of. It was a little before high school that I made a major decision that changed my life forever, my life took a new course.. It was one of those situations that you never expect, I had being accepted to this new program in the district called Early College Academy. This program gave the opportunity to students to be able to take high school classes while taking college credits, with the opportunity of getting their Associate’s Degree with their high school diploma. This was not just a great opportunity for me but it was also a gift, the district was paying for my higher education. As I set myself in this journey I grew up mentally and started to act as a college student, also, I learned to be on top of my classes and go a mile further in what I did. Although, I also encounter new struggles, for example, I was expected to pass a college level test when I was barely starting high
Now, as I look back I have changed a lot. I have more of a growth mindset than fixed. There are moments when I do close myself and think I can’t do something when in back of my head I know I can. My big challenge today still is participating in class. I participate in certain classes but there are certain ones I do not.
Never would I have expected to be in a position where I have experienced more failure than success, scared that I would never become the person I want to be, or having to tell my family I failed. This all seems like a horrifying nightmare from which I am yet to wake. However, to place the blame on anyone but myself would be to deny my own shortcomings, and inability to handle the adversities life has thrown my way. My current position is not one that happened overnight, nor is it a reflection of my intellect, but rather the result of an inability to adapt to a new environment while running away from home life. Having entered the American school system in
The series of failures compelled me to worked harder each year. I kept improving my grades, took harder courses and the results started to see as I finally achieved a 4.0 GPA after my last semester. Likewise, my ceiling hitting ego cooled down and I learned how to be humble. Body wise, I started to eat more nutritious foods and developed my passion for running. The failure from a lack of effort during freshman year lead to motivation as I would constantly remind myself about that failure whenever I felt like I had enough with school and all of the workload.
I was apprehensive about this exercise. I did not want to trivialize what it means to be living with a disability. I wondered; which disability am I comfortable doing? Do I have the resources? Am I capable? Nevertheless, this appeared to be a simple task and I have plenty of experience working with people with disability. I thought,
Moving on, my strength and determination did not magically appear one day. I had a lot of amazing people who are a part of my support network who helped show me what healthy self love and growth is supposed to be. One of the people I will be highlighting is my AP English teacher. Candice Ligator, was one of the best, and one of my favorite teachers in my high school career. She was a big part of my support system when it came to being a trans and queer student who had a lot of family issues. She was also a big inspiration to me as she told us stories full of struggles growing as a teacher. She talked about how starting off as a teacher at first made her cry every night, showing me that it takes persistence to be adept in a profession. Her choices on the pieces of literature she taught were engaging as they touched upon feminism, gay rights, and race. This allowed me to explore both my interest in writing and in social justice. Reading about personal experiences from Mary Shelley, Oscar Wilde, and Ralph Ellison was inspiring as it allowed me to see that I can
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
During that time, I struggled in all my classes as evidence by my grades and befriended one person who soon quit college. When I returned to my hometown, I lost connection with most of my friends, and to my family and past teachers, I felt like a failure because I was failing at the societal expectation of perfection. However, the more I thought about my shortcomings, the more I began realizing that this was my problem. The world expected perfection, and no one could ever be that but failing be so was causing me unnecessary stress. This realization was my first step towards coping because it provoked me to adopt a more realistic perspective. I began accepting my shortcomings, and dedicated less time worrying about them and more time toward realistically improving
There were many challenges for me in my past. I was considered an ESL student during Kindergarten because I was reported with a communication disorder called, speech and impaired. This disordered ruined my school years up to middle school, I was placed with this mentality that I am not worthy to take any Honors classes nor for what grade I was in. My friends and classmates were excelling while I was remaining with the same knowledge as before. However, Music and Soccer brought my despondency up since it was the only thing I was good at the time. Every day as a kid in Middle and High school, I would get home, open my instrument case, and play my trumpet for hours because I knew I was getting better at something. ( doing something right)
This year in physical education, I ran a mile in 9:37. I reached the 50th percentile, which was 10:00, but I did not reach the presidential goal of 8:23. To improve my cardiovascular fitness, I will ride my bike, hike, and jog more. Currently, I walk my dog most days, but on weekends I will set aside more time to go for a jog or hike in a park to improve my cardiovascular fitness.
Good physical health is a vital part of the well-being of every person. A major component of our physical health is “Cardiovascular fitness”. Cardiovascular fitness is the ability of the heart and lungs to provide oxygen to the muscles for activity of an extended duration. If we have a good level of cardio-vascular fitness we are able to sustain activity for a reasonable period of time and not fatigue easily. This can give individuals a variety of health benefits and allow more regular and enjoyable activity to be participated in. This research report will examine my results of cardio-vascular fitness tests and weekly physical activity events, which
“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
Throughout my educational experience, I have endured countless hardships that made progress difficult at times. Although it was a struggle through my strong dedication to education, I have also earned a list of achievements for my hard work. These experiences from, failing two of my English classes, to excelling tremendously in mathematics, have molded me into the type of student I am today. I am a student with a growth mindset and, an optimistic outlook on education and, the bright future ahead. I now understand the impact that a positive mindset can have on your future. I am definitely proud of the student I have become. I feel like my journey is unique, but is also very relatable.