Louisburg Honors Program Analysis

Ever since I was young, I knew something was different about me. I’ve always had an active imagination and would write all kinds of stories, sometimes through pictures and sometimes through words. Not until I was in first grade did I notice my writing was different than my friends. It didn’t bother me though because I was too young to realize something was wrong; I was just different. One weekend, after playing restaurant with my mom and brother, my mom contacted my teacher to talk about some concerns she had with my reading and writing. She was told that I seemed to be progressing on an age-appropriate level with my peers and that nothing appeared to be wrong. But my mom persisted, and insisted that I be tested for a reading disability. My dad is dyslexic and my mom, knowing it can be passed down, was watching for the signs in my older brother first and now me. After testing, one of SV’s school psychologists announced that my results showed I had a learning disability. I then went to my pedestrian to talk about it and then to a special learning center in Sewickley for further

The National Honors Society boasts of members with significant academic accomplishments, selfless hours of community service, and strong leadership capabilities as a representative of the school’s excellence. Becoming a member of the National Honors Society is a prestigious honor. As a student, I strive for excellence in my academics and have made the honor roll every quarter, showing my aim and dedication to reaching my highest potential. I try not to compete with other students, but with myself. My academics are the result of my hard work, and my dedication towards grades correlates to the dedication I have towards becoming a leader and a role model for the community.

I am interested in the Morrissy Honors Program because I am seeking to join a community that values the pursuit of academic excellence and takes the call to global citizenship seriously. From a young age I have enjoyed both learning and applying my knowledge to help others, and I will carry on these values into my role as a Morrissy Honor scholar.

Luther College’s TRIO Program has helped me in tremendous amounts of ways. By being apart of their program I have had access to materials that have helped me throughout my first semester and that will be useful to me in the future. The biggest benefit the TRIO Program gave to me was access to a one on one tutor for Physiology. This was a class that I was struggling with the first half of the semester and most of my classmates who were struggling had to be in a group for their tutoring session. Therefore, I am very thankful that the TRIO Program was able to give me access to a tutor that helped me bring up my grade, which resulted into me getting into the nursing program. Other ways the TRIO Program has helped me is by providing me with some

Still, to this day, dyslexia presents challenges because I read slowly and sometimes mix up words and letter order. I don’t like to read because it’s frustrating, but I do it because I enjoy acquiring new knowledge and so I can make something of myself. In spite of dyslexia, I’ve excelled in high school, while participating in a rigorous academic program. It has taught me perseverance which will help me reach my goals. Instead of staying up late at night thinking about the existence of dog, I contemplate making a positive impact on

Furthermore, the world beholds numerous challenges requiring one to overcome these hardships, face on. Enduring my own challenges of face deformities, financial constraints, and difficult coursework, I have the necessary strength to persevere and learn from these arduous challenges. Challenges are something that will be present throughout life, and I must continue to constantly learn how to deal with those upcoming challenges. As the GW honors' program presents challenges in the demanding coursework, I am optimistically looking forward to facing these challenges and become successful.

I want to join the FIU Honors College because it offers its students the opportunity to obtain a greater involvement in FIU and the community as well as being able to pursue their academic interests with a diverse group of individuals. This is something I would love to be a part of and contribute to during my upcoming years at FIU.

I believe the program is searching for a student that exemplifies great academic achievement, strong leadership qualities, good work ethic, and strong dedication. These qualities ensure that the student is willing and able to complete the requirements of the honors program and go above and beyond them. Great academic achievement is an important factor for the program because it shows that the student has the ability to undertake the challenge of the program. I believe I have the ability to undertake this challenge because my grades have lead me to receive academic honors and offers. I was honored through my induction into the National Honors Society following after my junior year.

While in elementary school I was diagnosed with a type of dyslexia, which did not make school easy for me because I already had a speech impediment due to being tongue tied. I got taken out of class everyday in elementary school to work on my speech and reading skills. Most teachers just thought I was not intelligent and put me in the lowest reading groups. Third grade was a turning point for me; my teacher, Mrs. Eddy, saw that I was intelligent enough to understand the hardest material, and she did her own research online which no other teacher had done for me. She helped me come up with techniques to help me read with my dyslexia more than any other teacher or reading coach had in school. I even started to attend a speech class in Edinboro every other day after school. I eventually learned how to work around my dyslexia and speech impediment. By the time I was in sixth grade, I did not need any more special attention for my impediments, and I started to take school more seriously. Now that I am over that tedious obstacle in my life, I am always striving to be the best version of myself as I can possibly be. I have worked way too hard to be stopped by anything that stands in between me and my

As a student of The Pennsylvania State University, I have spent time observing my peers on a day to day basis. As a curious individual, I like to see how people act and what they do in and out of the classroom. I have paid close attention to the students within Schreyer’s, and I have even already taken some honors credits where I had the opportunity to work with honors students. Based on my observations, I have found the Schreyer Honors College to stand for three main things: academic achievement, leadership among peers, and community outreach. As a hardworking student, I strive to incorporate these qualities in my life. As a result, I am interested in joining Schreyer Honors College so that I may be able to have more academic, leadership,

There I was, with tears streaming down my face while my classmates’ eyes followed me out of the classroom. My heart sank to my stomach out of pure embarrassment. Like any sixth grader, all I wanted was to fit in. Because I had faced the struggles of my learning disorder all throughout elementary school, I was used to being pulled out of class. However, this was different. My whole class, my peers, and the people I constantly strived to impress were now aware of my differences. I had dealt with dyslexia my entire life. I had made so much progress, but this experience made the years of hard work seem pointless. I went through so much- the extra classes, homework, and tutoring- yet, at this moment I felt as though I was a little first grader again,

Everyone on the planet has a goal set in life, but only a handful attempt to improve to obtain their goal by studying the subject their goal is in. In my English class, English 101 this quarter I was astonished by how much I had progressed as a writer sharpening my writing skills and also learned a lot about writing that I hadn’t learned before. In my writing portfolio for this quarter I had to write an autobiography essay, a research essay, and this reflection essay to develop my writing skills better. The writing assignments were fun to do because it challenged me to work on essays of different styles that were new to me. The essay assignments helped me grow as a better writer that gave me the self-confidence and skills to take on the world on my own.

Growing up in elementary school every day presented a new obstacle that needed to be overcome. Most of the time they were reading and writing challenges, and most of the other students at my grade level didn’t have the difficult time I did.

The Governor’s Honors Program is a selective four week residential summer program at Valdosta in Georgia. The process began with being elected in a specific field by a teacher that taught the corresponding subject. I was elected prior in my sophomore year, but had not made it past the state interviews. After going through the interview process once more in my junior year I was selected to participate in the program. In the months stay on campus, I attended a major class in the morning, and a later selected minor class in the afternoon. The design major included the areas of Architectural, Industrial, and Graphic Design. Projects that we did challenged me in different ways, because prior I had not taken a true art or design course. I was able

The biggest obstacle that I have encountered in my ability to read and write are my learning disabilities. I’ve went through 18 years of my life before they were identified, and they have caused me so much frustration. I couldn’t understand why other kids could read out loud so well and I couldn’t. I couldn’t understand why it took me so long to read only a few pages of a book when other kids were at the end of the chapter. I had no idea why I couldn’t even sit down to write a single paper when other kids were doing their essays in a span of a couple hours.