Five Of My Best Half Page Writings

Throughout my 17 years of life I have had many experiences. Some good and some bad, through all of this I have learned a lot as student and person. One experience I had was when I began high school. I began my freshman year not really caring about the amount of effort I should put in. When I was growing up, my parents didn’t enforce sitting down to do homework or projects or the study for quizzes and test. That put a damper on myself, as I lacked the ability and motivation to do those things without procrastination. After my freshman year I was disappointed in myself. I learned from this mistake and grew as a person to truly start to care about doing all the little things to be successful in school. Thereafter my sophomore year arrived and I improved. I did all the little things, maybe not 100% but I was a lot better than before. I got good grades and I was proud of myself. Even though didn’t perform at the top level I am capable of, I know I can

Where will my busy life take me and when will it feel worth it? 8 am, I was getting ready for work, 9am-5pm I was at the Vision Care Center, 6pm-11pm I was at the Express at Town East mall and by the time I got home, I was already fed up with life but had three courses to finish by the end of the month. Obstacles were everywhere and my mind was the worst one. I will try making an effort to view and think more positively. I hope to have a better perspective about everything around me. I will squeeze in dinner with the family and find a day off to feel a bit of freedom. The resources I could start to use more is the library, instead of getting home from work and feeling tired, maybe the library would motivate me to stay awake and finish more exams/assignments. Overall, I’m really glad that I had the chance to experience this particular assignment because it triggered me to see that the world doesn’t have to feel like such a busy place. Having this time to type out my thoughts is the freest I’ve felt in a while.

In 2008 when I decided to start going to college I had no idea what I wanted to do; besides eventually be a Game Warden. Goals that I laid out for myself were simple at the time. I foresaw nothing that was going to get in my way. I was prepared to breeze right through everything. Personal goals that I had set for myself were to continue on with a happy marriage and lose weight. My academic goals consisted of graduating by 2012 and starting a master’s program right after graduating with my bachelor’s degree. Professional goals were to get my dream career of Game Warden and I wanted to teach EMS students. As life went on things changed drastically and while some of these goals are achieved others have been long gone and some have been pushed to achieve later in

When faced with life’s obstacles you need to have a support team. Whether it’s friends, family, or a stranger that you met going through the same thing, there is always someone you can relate to and show you that the problem is only as big as you make it. If you have to take time off from goals to handle what is more important at the time, then so be it. But know that you will go on with life and come out stronger. If you let a hardship keep you down, you are only failing yourself and showing the people that didn’t believe in you they were right. Take a stand and fight every battle head on. you will learn more about yourself when you

I am going to work everyday for a place that pays decent money so I can have a steady home. I expect so many things to happen in my future even though I am not very lucky. I would like

My goals were set high and I felt on top of any necessary work. My positive attitude continued well into the winter months, I felt excited about what I thought my future was going to be, solid about what I knew was going to happen. Although, as the year went on, it was clear that things were not going to turn out as smooth and effortless as I had once planned. Once the new year hit I became increasingly nervous about my future plans and could not stand to think about them. I completely stopped thinking about anything to do with my workload, or necessary things I needed to accomplish in order to have the right things lined up for my future. Obviously this came right back at me, and the unexpected twists that popped up in my life had detrimental effects on my well being that I later needed to

I don’t know what life may have for me or what hard situations I might go through in the future but I do know one thing right now and is that no matter what circumstances I’ll go through life I will always do my best at succeeding because is better to try your best and fail, than to do nothing and still fail. Like Dweck says on her article: “No one succeeds in a big way without enormous amounts of dedication and

In Seventh grade, I was starting a new high school and was able to be carefree. I was able to slack off and get away with it. During my Seventh grade year, I was a happy. I was able to strive for straight A’s and still be stress free. I made new friends that understood me and I kept my friends close by. It was satisfying to know the environment around me and know my surroundings. As the years went by, I still continued to take the easy path. I wanted an easygoing school year where I didn’t have stress on my plate. Now, in my junior year of highschool, I have a bunch load of work and stress. Since I had reached high school, I needed more of a challenge. I needed something that would allow me to improve myself and become better. My parents had always told me that education was the key to a happy life. Receiving good grades and doing well would bring me happiness in the future. I had strived to become better and going through the many challenges that appeared was one of the obstacles that I had to

A few months ago, I was just beginning the second semester of my junior year and I felt like I was living the life. I had a reliable car, a loving family, and a great group of friends who had my back. However, in late January of that year, my little brother suffered a medical emergency that tested me and my strength as well as that of

Life is not always a walk in the park and challenges are inevitable. Roadblocks will be around every corner of your existence and it is your choice on whether you will give up or learn to take them head on. There is always something to be hopeful and confident about, and your future is exactly

cowering over in self-pity, fear, and anger, I vowed to live life to the fullest. I threw myself into my studies and I have lived life day by day constantly reminding myself that everything is temporary; emotions, thoughts, people, and scenery. As time marches on, I realize that my attitude and mindset throughout this hiccup in my life has defined me as a strong, positive, and passionate young adult. As Shakespeare said, "The world is an oyster", it's up to me to make the most out of life in any situation and I am doing just

When I leave on my own journey, I hope to achieve all that I strive for. Even if my life has not gone the way I wish it could’ve. The challenges, obstacles and people that have come my way have made me a better person and shaped the way that I think, feel and act. I honestly have no idea what the future holds for me. I came in this year expecting to get into most of the colleges I applied for, after the fact I only got

When one indulges in this with a weak heart might make one loose hope but thanks to my parents, siblings, family members and friends who have been a part of this walk. During my early stages, our family was undergoing some financial crises that always saw us move from place to place and even moved across states in search of better work condition. My father was in search of a job with better pay that would help the family survive because at that time; my mother was employed neither was she doing any business and was just a loving and caring housewife. This affected my schooling procession and catching up at those different institutions was a major challenge. It’s my mother who used to give me some heads up on how to go through all

This is all thanks to my mom. She’s always been my support, she’s believed in me when I didn’t believe in myself. She made sure I never gave up because you see, the thing is, I struggle from severe depression. My resume maybe long and impressive and this, that, and the other thing, but it didn’t matter. Not getting into NYU and spending a year studying in and breathing in the culture of Paris, I couldn’t get out of my rut. All this great things were happening to me but the stress of paying for tuition and the guilt of going to an expensive school began to weigh so heavily on me that I had to stop. I transferred schools hoping for a new start, but the same issues persisted. I had trouble paying for school, worked long hours outside of school with my paychecks being filtered to the school’s bursar. So I stopped again. I felt like a failure, I had no direction, I didn’t know what to do next. It was the first time in my life when I didn’t have a plan and a bullet point list of what I wanted to accomplish. But the experience that came from taking the time off from school has been

“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