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National Honor Student Analysis

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I believe anything is possible if you set your mind to it, and I live by this motto daily. Ever since I was ten years old and I made my first local little league team’s all star team, I knew I wanted to play baseball for as long as I could. I am thankful I have been offered the opportunity to play baseball beyond the high school level and am enjoying the college selection process. For my first visit to Kalamazoo College in July, I fell in love with the small school within the big town atmosphere. Once I walked onto Woodworth Field and walked around in the outfield grass, I knew this could be my home for the next four years of my life. Going to a great college has been a goal of mine throughout my life. When I was six months of age, I was diagnosed with severe to profound hearing loss and fit with my first pair of hearing aids. Throughout the years I have learned how to accommodate myself to achieve my goals with my hearing impairment. I am an Honor Student and member of the National Honor Society, The …show more content…

I was one of those when I was growing up. I struggled with speaking due to my hearing loss at a young age, and I was often bullied as a result of my bright blue and green hearing aid molds. People and programs that “pay it forward” like the Sertoma Speech and Hearing Center, the Peer Ministers at my High School and, The Windy City Thunderbolts really helped me grow out of my shoes and become the individual that I am today. I could not be a member of the National Honor Society or be playing college baseball without the support of my parents, teachers and former classmates who are role models. I want to inspire one kid who had to endure hardships like I did, that he too can be whomever he wants to be in his

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