I Am Who I Am?

My dad taught me that hard work is the only way to succeed, and my mother taught me to express my love through words. The most important thing that my parents taught me was that everything has a consequence. I was taught that if you are out late then you wake up tired for school the next morning. If the room isn’t clean then you’ll live in filth and if the dishes aren’t done then there will be no plates for dinner. The entire bases of what my parents taught me revolves around this method of teaching.

Who am I? I am a student who studies Math, Science, English, and History. I am amongst the normal people trying to get through high school with good grades and not being stressed which is almost impossible when you are also trying to balance a job. I have a lot of personal experiences and qualities to share and not to share, not because I want to, but because I have to for a grade. Some of those include Loyalty, Compassionate, Stubbornness, and my argumentative side that just wants to defend my opinions. There is a lot that comes with me not just good things, but also things from my past that i bring here with me from my old hometown Palmdale, CA.

Whether it’s education in a classroom or a sport on a team, the parents player or students become a reason for them to be able to speak upon values,

You want to know what shaped/molded me as student. Wow, that's a funny qurstion! I believed I didn't know what made me who I am, but as I look back and forth, I realized, it was me. I am my own motivation. I don't look up to anyone, I just look forward to something. I am a believer, dreamer, achiever, and wonderer. As I look around me and see how my family and others of a different and same ethnicity living their whole life on a budget, barely making ends meet, I tell myself I will be better and become better. I will not let my surroundings select or change the way I am. When I was younger, I believed everything would just come and fall into my arms. I wanted to be all of the occupations I seen on TV. I planted in my head that I would be a

As time passes and deadlines approach, a certain question seemed to constantly come to mind, “who am i?”. I never took the time to ask myself this question, but as my senior year slowly comes to an end, and the time to plan out my future is here, the question arose. It's difficult to find time to ask myself this question, and even more difficult to find the answer with so many other things circling my mind, especially around this time in the year. But in order to get to where I am now, I had to get to know myself first.

I think I am the person that I am now because of my mother, my grandmother, and the teachers who helped me during my whole life. I never had a lot of real friends, but the ones that I had where a lot special to me, and they also helped me in a lot of things. I was known for being a little lazy, but really smart. My only problem was that I used to dedicate more time in my interests that in everything else. My teachers helped me a lot during elementary school, because I was failing the school year in first grade, but thank for them I finish being 1st place during 3 consecutive years. I always follow the best steps that my mom show

The first and foremost lessons taught in my life began at home. My upbringing was, at times, unconventional and my family was, in a sense, not ideal to the standards of society. My mom was a single parent, becoming both the breadwinner, as well as, the caregiver. She came to this country on a student visa, and was able obtain an associate’s degree. Unfortunately, because she did not hold a higher degree, it was very hard, and sometimes impossible to find an adequate job. Yet, she made sure my siblings and I had decent schooling and reminded us constantly the importance of receiving an education.

“Where Are You Going, Were Have You Been” by Joyce Oates, is one of most the craziest, unexpected plot twist of a story I have ever read. Through this short story you are narrated through the background of the ups and downs of a young girl’s life and through the strange encounter with a peculiar man. Joyce Oates will make you question, and feel alongside her main character as you try to grasp onto this strange fictional mystery.

My early education shaped my motivations and philosophy in both negative and positive ways. At a young age, I became motivated to read and learn as much as possible. I regularly outperformed all of my peers in school and became focused on showing everyone that I was superior to them. Consequently, I continued to perform better and became convinced that I was smarter than my classmates and friends. Despite being given chances to excel in elementary school; in fifth, sixth, and seventh grade I was not sufficiently challenged and was disappointed that my time in school felt wasted. This was particularly frustrating because I had contemplated skipping sixth grade, but was discouraged to do so. Halfway through seventh grade I had the opportunity to challenge myself again. This time it did not influence my motivation or work habits; instead, I learned self-humility and had my personal philosophy reshaped.

Personal values I believe speak a great deal about a person and who they are and I learned that my values reflect just that. During New Start we had an activity in class that forced us to pick from a list of personal values and narrow them down and rank them in order of importance. My top values included family, friends, school, and independence just to name a few. This activity was especially challenging for me but in the end it helped me really look at what truly is important to me. I had to apply this lesson from class in my life sooner than I expected. My grandmother passed away during New Start and I had to decide if I wanted to miss school and be with family but that also meant by missing school I’d be missing out on important information. In the end I choose to go to school the next day and be with my family afterwards. That decision alone was very hard because in a situation such as mine there was a conflict of my personal values my family is very important to me but school is just as important to me. Although it was difficult for me to make that decision but the fact I had the ability to choose between two of my own personal values is why I’ve chosen to place knowing and understanding my personal values as a strength. I know that throughout life there will be times when I will have to choose once again between my personal values and as student like I’ve mentioned earlier I’m going to make those decisions based on what matters to me and what won’t always be there in the end.

Using positive values teachers and the school faculty can aid the student’s parents in the formation of the student’s values.

Individuals and past experience that most informed me of my values include my parents, my high school teacher Mr. DeLuca and my internship mentor Dr. Henkel. My parents have informed me in values to do the best I can in life and also to show to show respect and kindness to those who you know and do not know. They also have informed me in other values, especially in wanting to pursue a career profession that would contribute to a person’s life. There overall values that they instilled to me help shaped my other values and other participation I had during my high school years. For instance, during my senior year I had a mentor who helped me create a book that would provide an overall big impact to the Hatboro Horsham School District Community. More specifically, we decided to work on a project which was to create a book that would inform students at an elementary school in Horsham to embrace challenges and look at obstacles from a positive perspective. The way my mentor best put it was for our book to have the message of giving advice. He told me to go ahead and think about myself as that young age and how I was. He told me to think about the advice that I would give at that time, now that I am older and much wiser. Continuing further, the book that I created was called “Reach for Grandma”. Mr. DeLuca helped with the overall editing and finalizing of creating of the book such as illustrations, page numbers and researching children books. The book that I ended up creating was

Why me? A question I asked myself a lot during my elementary school age, by this time I had 2 open heart surgeries to replace my trucle valve and many other procedures and tests. I can recall always asking my mother "why me?" "why can't I be normal" She always told me that I was special and some day I could gain from this. Of course when you're that young things like that don't really stay with you and its not something that you would think about on an everyday basis.

The question “who am I”? Can have a lot of individuals thinking about themselves, including myself because one might not know where to start. It is a very broad question, but having done the Strengths Finder 2.0 assessment, I realized more in depth what kind of person I really am based on my top 5 strengths. Who I am as a learner, who I am in my career and who I am as a person of faith lead me to answering the question above and understanding more of myself within.

If you walk continuously along a straight path, you will never be found again. But on a cyclic path, you come back repeatedly at the starting point and eventually cover endless distance, provided the energy and system remain intact. Interestingly, most phenomena occurring in nature favour a cyclic rather than straight path.