Personal Narrative: My Experience With The National Honor Society

When I was younger, I had a difficult time making new friends because I never started conversations and never stood up with what I believed in. I was told to join clubs and be open to make new friends, but I always seen myself fading into the background. I was tired of being known as “the shy girl” so I decided to make a difference in my life. I built up enough confidence and took the initiative to join clubs and open myself to new opportunities. Although it was difficult at first, I found myself getting comfortable and wanting to make a positive change to the community by becoming a leader. This was the most significant experience of my life because I conquered my shyness. This is why the fours pillars that best define my pillars is leadership, service, confidence, and dedication.

My personal development has been molded by many people and things, yet the four pillars of National Honor Society have exceeded all other influences in their potency. Scholarship, service, leadership, and character— each pillar engenders its own unique form of impact upon me. Furthermore, the foundation of my future goals harmonizes seamlessly with the pillars; I shall strive toward success by applying them throughout my life.

National Honors Society is an amazing opportunity to be chosen for. By being accepted, it shows that the hard work that I have done in the classroom, and in the community have done well for not only the community but for myself as a person. Since I have started High-school, I have done many volunteer hours at my church. I have done many things such as help lead game-time for the little ones during a learning program called Awana. Awana is a program done by some churches to help raise children to love and serve God. I also help most Sundays in the sound room at church. I help to run the sound and the computer that displays the songs that we are doing that particular Sunday. I enjoy doing these things because seeing the children’s faces, enjoying

My high school requires twenty-five service hours each year of high school in order to graduate, plus an additional fifteen to be involved in National Honor Society. While this may make all of the community services I have participated in sound like a mere school requirement, it is actually the complete opposite of that. Without those school requirements, I am not sure how involved I would be in my community. But due to them, I am always involved in some way.

Describe a circumstance, obstacle or conflict in your life, and the skills and resources you used to resolve it. Did it change you? If so, how?

Throughout high school, I participated in many leadership activities. I served as the president of the National Homeschool Honor Society, which involved organizing meetings community service projects. I taught a class of twenty preschoolers at my church for two years. Even simply hosting Bible studies has involved a lot of planning and leadership. All of these opportunities have shown me that a good leader not only instructs people on what to do, but they also listen to the people they are leading. A good leader needs equal amounts of passion, patience, confidence, and integrity.

My involvement with the Honors Program and the Honors Club has increased over time. When I first enrolled in Pima Community College I was hoping for no more than a certificate that would allow me to access a well paid job in this country. The reason for this is that, even though I wanted to go to a four year university as I was doing when I lived in Colombia, I knew that higher education would be too expensive for me to afford as an immigrant that had recently moved into the U.S. I also thought that the language barrier would make it difficult for me to obtain the grades that I wanted. However, after taking my assessment exams when I first joined Pima and getting a very high score that allowed me to join the Honors Program, my curiosity and desire to further my education began to swell. After my first semester in Pima I obtained a 4.0 GPA, which gave the

In high school, I have maintained an Academic Honors diploma track which means I will be graduating with a higher honors than most of my grade. I was only allowed to stay on this track if my GPA was above a 3.0 and I didn’t get a grade lower than a C-. This was a difficult task for me at times because I took hard classes such as AP Biology and AP Calculus. They tested me to see if I was serious about staying on this track. It turns out, I was serious. I never got a grade lower than a C- and my GPA is way higher than a 3.0. However, my devotion to doing well in school, was because of the Weaver scholarship and not the higher diploma track. When I was in 8th grade, my dad, Mark Klug, informed me about it and said that if I kept my grades up,

Hello "rickykillaz" here, Here just putting up some For Honor game play footage I thought it would be cool. I dropped some random footage because I play For Honor a lot and it is one of my favorite games to play right now. The first video is "Live" which is me going up against one of the biggest characters in For Honor history, the moment is called "Clash Of The Titans". The second video is called "View" which is me going around and show you the view of For Honor, while doing the "Chameleon Run" and show of my armor, Dou watch and

My involvement at Texas Tech University falls heavy in the Student Government Association. As a freshman, I served as president of the Freshman Council. During my time in Freshman Council, me and 30 other freshman raised over $1,000 to be awarded to student organizations. In spring of my freshman year, I was elected to serve as an At-Large Senator for 2016-2017. I was also appointed to serve as the chair of the Intergovernmental Committee. In these positions I was able to write recognition and appreciation of service legislation for Jodey Arrington, Randy Neugebauer, and TTUPD and LPD. Just recently, I was re-elected to serve as an At-Large Senator for 2017-2018. In this role, I will also serve as President Pro Temp of the Student Senate and

It was an honorable day for me, it was the induction ceremony for a pristine club: Honor Society. This club is invitation only, the best of the best students are asked to join the club. Not only was I inducted into the club I was chosen to President. It was a great honor to be appointed President. Being able to join an honorable club was a great, but I like to think that every day is a mini goal I complete. The reason I say this is because I work hard trying to managing all my honor and AP classes, with all the clubs I am involved in as well as patriating in school sports. I play three sports *I am 20words over

Mike snatched my shrimp chips off of my hands and he banged it against the table, trying to get every piece of chips smashed, I started crying very loud which only made it worse. Ms. Rancho blankly, stared at my table and her head quickly turned back to her laptop, hoping that I would not bother to come and tell her to make the boys stop. I drastically, marched to her desk, telling her to make a stop or change my seat. Ms.Rancho purposely ignored my words, instead she told me to help Sabrina wipe down the tables. My face started to swell with tears having no courage to talk back at her. So I followed her

As a mentor, I have to help other youths in my school who have issues with each other to find more appropriate ways to resolve their conflicts. In the restorative justice program, we are continuously engaged in circles with the deans to address disputes between two or more persons who are on the path to crime and violence. These discussions are private and should only be discussed in our circle. Once, two females had a problem with one male student. One of the girls got her friends involved in the situation, and it escalated into a bigger situation which almost got physical. I was asked to sit in on this circle to resolve the conflict and I did. I was successful as there were no fights and the females found a way to solve the problem they had with each other in peace. During the circle I told that this person that they are having issues over does not care about them because if he did he would have tried and de-escalate the situation, but he did not. This is one of the reasons I choose the restorative justice program as the most important activity because it has helped me and now I am in a capacity to help others along their

Describe a circumstance, obstacle or conflict in your life and the skills and resources you used to resolve it. Did it change you? If so, how?

Markayla was watching a movie in the milieu, while another student was drawing at the tables. Markayla requested to turn all the lights off due to the glare on the TV screen. Staff explained to the student that only some of lights will be turned off because we have to consider the other student working at the table. Student became verbally combative and attempted to intimidate staff. When staff attempted to redirect student she in turn became combative and aggressive towards staff. Markayla was placed in a standing to seated restrain.