Explain What Is Trying To Start By Doing What's Necessary?

My freshman year I joined many extracurricular activities, and some of my grades started to show it. Four and a half weeks in, I had a part of the school play, I was a marcher in the marching band show for that year, and had golf practice almost every day. Each day when I finally got home, I took a shower, and then went to sleep; hardly any studying was done. A quarter of the semester passed, and my grades were below par. After realizing how bad my grades actually were, I studied thirty minutes each day. I fit in 30 minutes after play practice; while I ate before

My father was a military man, so he always had a plan. As a child, my father always encouraged me to never stop learning. “Learning is power,” he would tell me. He was tough on me. Learning was a way up “If you don’t understand something look it up, research it, but don’t give up. Education is hard, if it was easy we would all have degrees and diplomas” he would say. “Don’t try

EDUCATION : “When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course.”

The 6 point grading scale along with my erratic home life has made it challenging to get good grades. My mom is an alcoholic. Her drinking became really atrocious in 8th grade through my junior year. She went to get help at a treatment center at the beginning of my sophomore year. When she got back, she relapsed several times during the next year, but in the middle of my Junior year she drank for the last time and has not touched alcohol since. The drinking and having an autistic brother put an enormous amount of stress on my parents marriage and they ended up getting a divorce in 10th grade. I lived with my mom and saw my dad just a few hours a week maybe less for the next few years. I was forced to grow up quicker than most kids because

Before I would never go out or stay after school to join or play any activity and I never focus on school or look at my book and do homework when I get back from school. All I just did is ask my friends for the answer and copy, I always got good grade on my homework and classwork but I never get a good grade on quiz and test. I know that because I didn’t study anything all I did is copy the work from my friends but I can’t change myself. But last year I did it here is the story about sophomore year.

My Junior Year of high school just recently started. I have learned so many different things while attending high school, and still have over a year to learn even more. As Matthew Kelly said, “whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future.” This means while I have done a lot in my past, I cannot change anything that has already happened, but I am able to change my future. One of the most important things that I am involved in right now is school. My first two years at CBHS were good, and I made decent grades. Some of the grades that I made I am not very happy with now but I cannot change that so I need to focus on my grades right now because those are the ones I can change.

since seventh grade I have changed academically. I use to get bad grades in elementary school and some in grades5-6 now I am starting to get better grades like A’s and B’s. My parents are more fun when I when I

“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” - St. Francis of Assisi

I can relate to the above quote. During my first years of high school, I did not take my academics as seriously as I should have. I did not set goals so that I would not disappoint myself. I have learned my little decisions I made impacted my grade point average and class ranking. Also I realized I needed to make some academic changes.

Everything is an accurate representation of me as a student except for sophomore year. Sophomore year, my grades dipped do to an unfortunate event that took up lots of my time and focus. During sophomore year my parents were going through with a divorce that was both nasty and prolonged. It took up a lot of my emotional, physical, and mental efforts that year moving my focus from school to my home life. Hearing them argue and yell at each other all the time was incredibly taxing and moving between living with my father and my mother every week was something new. My head simply was not where it needed to be and I often stayed up late at night doing homework and often forgetting to turn in assignments. I spent most of my time away from homes

After submitting my mini essay and rereading it, I realized there are a couple things I could improve on. One being eliminating passive sentences. I could work on this by finding worksheets or lessons on passive sentences and practice identifying them and changing them to active. Learning how to avoid passive voice will help make my writing more clear, helping the readers understand my points easier. Additionally, it will help make my arguments sound stronger and keeps the sentences from being too wordy and becoming confusing. Eliminating passive voice will help make my writing more direct and clear and overall help improve my writing.

I tend to get sick a lot, which leads me to miss school. I make sure that my attendance doesn't interfere with my work. Even if I'm not in class I make sure I get all the work done. Honestly I can say I have better grades than some people who go to school everyday. And the reason is because I'm responsible. I know what I'm expected to do and I make sure to deliver it. My junior year I took a college Reading class, more than halfway into the year I got really sick which caused me to miss a week of school. When I went back to class I found myself left with only 3 days to turn a 6 page paper. I was overwhelmed but I put all of my effort to catch up on everything I had missed. I felt proud when I found out I was 1 out of 7 people who turned the paper on

I am very proud of the grades I have received throughout high school. Getting good grades has never been a problem or a struggle for me. I tend to understand things very quickly and if I don’t, I don’t hesitate to ask to clarify. There has only been one bad grade that I’ve gotten throughout my high school career. This was in 9th grade P.E, I had ended that semester with an F because I got a sports related injury and wasn’t able to do much. I had to make up that with taking one semester of Lifetime Sports. In my family we take pride in everything we do and accomplish. But as of now I went from a 2.0 to 3.4.

I began believing that every class that didn’t relate to my career of choice was pointless. I started getting lazy and stopped turning assignments in throughout my sophomore year and the beginning of my junior year. I realized, after Christmas, that this was dumb of me. Getting back into the habit of doing everything again was going to be very hard. My GPA was also going to be hard to raise. I guess I decided that having fun and that my life out of school was more important. Although having a great life out of school is, in fact, important, I needed to balance everything equally. So, since last year, I’ve been trying to work harder on my school work. I also had a girlfriend at the time. Maybe she was making me think a little better, and maybe she was changing me. Although I am not married, I still know that women tend to have that effect on you. Whether that change is good, bad, or makes you insane. I would say the change is mostly

I am aware that my grades are not where they could be. Being a part of an Early College gave me many other opportunities that I took advantage off. During my High School experience, I decided to focus more on my extracurricular activities, such as RC Club and FIRST Robotics. I felt like these activities would better prepare me for the Engineering field and I still do. From being apart of these clubs, I gain valuable insight about the field, such as machining technique and understanding of the Engineering Design Process. They also taught be a lot about myself and taught me how to become a better leader and team member.