The Perpetual Vehemence
By having a passion for learning you have created a pathway for yourself for many diverse opportunities in your lifetime. People that are eager to learn and try new things are allowing themselves to develop as a person and obtain an immeasurable amount of knowledge. Being a person that’s passionate to learn new things also means that there is always a possibility of discovering a new talent or potential that you never would've thought you had.
For as long as I can remember, I have always been intrigued by new concepts and endeavors. Things like instruments and foreign languages always seemed to be calling my name. When registration for high school rolled around it was troublesome trying to cull the electives that were
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It was like I was a newly debuted artist about to perform at my very first concert. The aura I was emitting was 99.99% trepidation and .01% anticipation. My cousin, who agreed to accompany me, noticed how anxious I was. She sighed and with slight annoyance seething in her voice she said, “Stop worrying already, you have your entire life ahead of you to learn new things.” And with those 15 bittersweet words I realized how ridiculously distraught I had been. I thought to myself about how I truly did have my entire life ahead of me waiting for me to keenly acquire more knowledge and experience new things. I needed to stop incessantly worrying about intangible nonsense that was out of my control.
Throughout my first couple years of high school, I delved into many different experiences, some worthwhile and others detestable. I fell into the world of music and learned how to read and slightly understand a couple of foreign languages. I learned how to graph inequalities and how to properly structure an essay. I envisioned the world through the eyes of historical figures like Rosa Parks and Susan B.
In high school I have learned the true meaning of being selfless and what the gift of giving is. I have spent much of my high school career volunteering at school and in the community. Many students spend their years of high school partying and hanging out with their friends, but I have dedicated myself to staying after school every day to volunteer and help the Athletic Trainer at the High School, as well as being a part of our schools community service group, Youth Core, as an officer.
Education is never ending therefore there are many things to learn. Each and every day has something new to offer. This is a constant. I am an avid learner consequently I hunger for something new every day to quench that taste for knowledge.
My interests and passions supplement my education in high school in a variety of ways. Show choir, musicals, plays, chorus, band, jazz band, and so much more allowed me to use my creativity everyday in multiple ways. All of these arts opportunities added to the excitement of coming to school, which naturally helped me succeed in my academic pursuits. Not only do I enjoy high school, but many weekend days have been spent waiting to go back to school so that I can sing again, or play my trumpet again, or just learn something really interesting.
I have always loved to learn. Expanding my knowledge brings me so much joy and it is a way
After I graduated from middle school and entered high school, I experienced numerous changes throughout my learning and education. During my freshman year of high school, I was able to apply the skills, concepts, and knowledge that I learned throughout my years in middle school, which allowed me to gain success as a student. I
Before my high school days came about, I was involved in many activities. I was a Girl Scout for 6 years.I learned many life lessons and skills through girl scouts, some of which I still use today. In fact, in 2010 I was the number one top cookie seller in Texas. I sold 4,336 boxes of cookies.
Learning to Love Learning Have you ever thought about how nice it would be if you never had to learn anything ever again? On the other hand, have you ever wished you loved learning? Learning is an important aspect in each of our lives. Figuring out how to have a love and want to learn can be difficult, but very rewarding. In the essays The love of Learning, by David McCullough, and Learning by Heart, by Susan W. Tanner, they each offer ways to figure out how to do so.
Curiosity promotes learning because it sparks somebody’s interest in a certain subject or skill they would like to learn. Also the subject or skill promotes learning because you learn something depending on the subject that interest you. Passion for learning will also promote learning because if you are a person that likes to learn new things then you will have the desire to learn. If you have certain goals that you are trying to achieve then it will most likely lead you to learning
I have found my niche in high school. I have chosen to take every AP or honors course that I can fit into my schedule, and I taken advantage of leadership opportunities. However my world was far from perfect.
My high school years, unlike the past years of steady achievements, felt much more like a sine graph with ups and downs. To begin with, I conquered my freshman year in a breeze. My easily achievable classes not only earned myself confidence, but also admiration and respect from my classmates and teachers. As a result, I comfortably acclimated myself to the status of a star student.
My first year of high school was filled with adventures and difficulties throughout the years. Comparing to my other years, I took challenges, such as taking on sports while finding the time for my school works and achieving my goals. However, I was able to find the way and fight through my freshman year.
There are things you learn in high school that you feel you wouldn’t need when you get out, then there are things you learn, like a skill, that you know you could never live without. This skill could be: drawing, music, design, or cooking. This one thing could make you feel like the smartest person in the world, when someone asks for help and you know exactly what to do. This is one of the things that make someone who they are. This one thing shapes their life into what they could possibly do in the future.
I finally made it to High school! Driver’s Ed finished up at Iowa Western and I got my permit!! I was so excited to drive to school. I took Pottery, Spanish I, Intro to Engineering, English, Speech, Algebra, Personal Development, Biology, Human Anatomy, and American History. I enjoyed every class very much! I went to homecoming and snoball dances with guy friends and girlfriends all the way through my senior year. I was also involved in volleyball, track and basketball. My sophomore year we made it to state and won our first two games. As a junior we made it to the championship game, and my senior year we won! It was the best experience I’d ever had. Sophomore year Nate got married and I also became an aunt to Zach’s first baby! FCA
Naturally, my eagerness to learn came about at a very young age. I always wanted to know how the human body worked. Growing up in the age of YouTube, I often poured over countless hours of videos learning simple concepts that I could easily understand at that time. As I grew I was always looking to learn something new. Finally, in high school I took advantage of College Now, a program where students in high school had access to college classes on a college campus while receiving college credits. While I was there, I earned a Certificate in Computer Science from CUNY Queens College. This eagerness to learn came about of a very simple reason. My parents had high aspirations for me since no one on either side of their families had ever gone beyond a high school education. They wanted me to be the first in the family to achieve a Bachelor’s degree. Finally in 2012, I graduated from St. Johns University with a
For as long as I can remember I’ve always loved learning new things and acquiring new skills. Anything that seemed remotely interesting to me was reason enough to be explored. Whether it was learning to skateboard, or taking apart old technology to see how it worked, I always wanted to do something and try something new or different. One particular venture that got me into the STEM field specifically was when I wanted to learn music production. I had friends who made beats and it looked really fun to me, so I went home downloaded some software, and was disheartened to see that old computer my uncle had given us was not powerful enough to run the software well. From that day on I had researched how to upgrade computers and make them faster