During my second year in a high school, I made the foolish the decision to take three Advanced Placement courses despite my counselor's warning; only three other students my age chose this course of action, yet I was guileless, headstrong, and ready to move into the fray. The three classes were Advanced Placement Biology, Chemistry, and World History combined with a rigorous cross country eight-mile cross-country run, and a demanding pre-calculus class. I went into AP Chemistry not knowing a thing about chemistry. I remember feeling a sense of insecurity around my peers, who were far more intelligent than I. As I sat listlessly in my one-armed desk chair, I could not grasp the words coming out of the instructor's mouth, vocabularies such as
When I passed my AP World History test. During my freshman year I was put into an AP class. I didn’t know what AP was, I didn’t know what to expect. I was able to handle my honors classes because it was material back in middle school. However, AP World History was strenuous and took major effort. There were multiple times where I had uncertainty of whether or not I was capable to keep going. I really felt out of place because it was a difficult class with essays, chapters to read and exams every week. Nonetheless, I never gave in, I convinced myself that the reason why my school put in roughly 90 kids, including myself, out of at least 1000, is because they saw potential in us and knew that we would be able to handle the stress of a college
In the beginning of my junior year, I had signed up for one of the most intimidating classes in my high school, AP chemistry. While I took chemistry honors, I heard rumors about the AP course and seen homework packets that overwhelmed me to the point of removing the class from next year’s schedule. However, out of impulsiveness, I decided it was time for a challenge and put the course back on my schedule. When I received my summer assignment for the course, I felt confused and regretful about the decision I had made. My commitment to not fail the class the first week back from break forced me to focus on the time-consuming homework. From my struggle, I managed to finish the packet on time. The school year began, and one of the first lessons
As I walked up the stairs of my school to what would be the first ever AP course in my life, my mind raced with anxious thoughts of what lied ahead. I was a sophomore taking AP Spanish Lang, something that my previous Spanish teacher had told me should come naturally due to my Mexican heritage. If only I could believe her, I had spent years trying to Americanize*its a formal essay don't use slang shit like americanize* myself to fit in with those around me.
My SAT scores aren’t the best because I lacked motivation to learn in high school and barely studied before taking the test. However, after graduating from high school, I stopped playing video games, which took a big part of my time, and motivated myself to become a life-long learner and improve every day. For example, during my first year at IU, I worked hard to be involved in campus organizations such as the Toastmasters Club and the Kelley Student Government while also working hard to get a 3.8 GPA. As a result of this effort, I got accepted into the Kelley School and the Business Honors Program. After transitioning from an average student in high school to a high achiever in college, I realized that any goal is achievable if one if willing
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,
I had thoroughly enjoyed and was quite proficient at the Honors Chemistry course my sophomore year, so I was ecstatic to delve deeper into the subject. I had heard that the class was one of the most difficult classes a student could take, but I was not deterred by these warnings. The first couple of weeks, I thought I was grasping the material quite well. The first test of the year was administered, and when we received the tests back, I was utterly confounded to see that I had made the first failing grade of my entire academic career. Many students dropped out of Advanced Placement Chemistry by the first month, but I was determined to see it through to the end. I carefully and thoughtfully completed homework assignments, study guides, and any extra-credit opportunities in order to succeed. Despite many of my peers telling me dropping out was the best decision they had made, I still sought out assistance from my teacher as well as other resources to overcome obstacles that were challenging me. I embraced the rigors the class presented, and knew it was going to be the most difficult out of them all, but it was also going to be the most rewarding in the end. I finished the year with an incredibly strong semester grade, as well as an above average AP exam score. This enlightening experience instilled in me not only my grit and tenacity
I have really enjoyed being in school my last two semesters here at Tech. Summer semester has been a little harder than I have imaged, but I am making it through. I will be going into my third semester in the fall and my classes will be a lot tougher as well. I will work and study harder, so I can pass my classes.
To deny a child the ability to have more access to knowledge is an abomination. A child who wishes to learn more about the world and all it's knowledge, yet is denied that access because of what a small test said.The thing about this child is that I am the child. I would raise my voice up and ask," Why can't I go and do advance English?" I would be told to wait till I get to high school, or wait till I got older then I could ask again. Even asking my friends about the situation I was told to just drop it and accept this fact.
During that time I attended DeBakey High School, I enrolled myself in a course known as Pre-AP Integrated Physics and Chemistry. As a graduate with all A’s and B’s straight out of middle school, I felt like classes at high school would be a breeze. Unfortunately, this mindset would toss me into an abyss of failure. I failed to take into consideration that this school abided as one of the top high schools in Houston. In the middle of the first week, the teacher had slammed the entire class with a rigorous quiz. My body shook with discomfort. My hands trembled with fear. My eyes wandered with uneasiness. At this point, I knew the outcome of this gruesome quiz was soon to end with my defeat. After receiving my disgusting letter grade on this excruciating quiz, I felt an immediate sense of urgency rush through my spine. Everyone in the
Under intense pressure, I opted to prioritize my time and structured reviews to accommodate my specialties and shortcomings in Advanced Placement Courses. Due to my captivation with Psychology, Government, and World History, I determined that my review of these courses would be abridged in order to dedicate copious amounts of time to arduous and problematic subjects such as Physics B. Manipulating this scheme of prioritizing, I had an appropriate period of time to review the Environmental Science and Microeconomics exams that I intended to independently study. Due to my extensive knowledge of chemistry and biology, I was able to hastily review Environmental Science. Consequently, I concentrated my labor into Microeconomics, a topic that I had no prior knowledge of. With finals and subsequent Advanced Placement Exams, I became beleaguered to preserve my 4.0 GPA. With sheer willpower and efficient time management, I succeed to pass every single Advanced Placement exam with an average score of 4.4 and retained my immaculate GPA. The tremendous burden I felt undertaking seven Advanced Placement exams influenced me critically as I recognized the perils and hazards of procrastination and the weapon of time
Throughout middle school, I worked hard to earn a respectful reputation and to complete my all my assignments. I was extremely dedicated to my work so everything was relatively easy. I would humbly assist my peers when they needed help in Honors algebra or geometry. My fellow students and my teachers all expressed gratitude toward me, a feeling that I've grown quite fond of. Eventually, the high school I was attending sent counselors and other representatives to describe the courses they offered. During their visit, they emphasized how high school was much more challenging than middle school and how we shouldn't take too many advanced placement classes. Foolish as it may be, I scoffed and ignored their warning. Given how hard I worked in the past since I first entered middle school, I figured the classes could be easily handled because I had enough time
Sports are something a lot of people love, softball was my favorite. I had also played volleyball for a long time, however after my freshman year I lost the desire to play any longer. My heart was with softball, doing anything and everything I could to make myself the best player I could be.
One of my most best experiences I have ever had was signing up for Advance Chemistry in the 11th grade and the subsequent three that I scored on the Advance Placement exam at A.R. Johnson in the school year of 2013-2014. This class was the first Advance Placement class I took after coming off a strong 10th grade chemistry finish. That means I got a high B in the class which my teacher strongly persuaded me to go into Advanced Placement Chemistry. I have always love the topic of science however, I didn’t watch shows that taught science for young children because, my parents thought a talking dog and his friends solving mysteries was the best choice for me. I don’t regret that decision at all. Science in general for me has been easy due to me having a great memory for instance, during tests, I am able to picture the book, which helps me get the right answer. The involvement with Advance Placement Chemistry has taught me many key life lesson. These include; study, study, and more study, you can not study enough for any subject. The art of being prepared, procrastination will hurt you in your academic career. The most important, crucial, and fundamental lesson is that
My very first choice is elementary education. I chose elementary education, because I love working with children, and I have had the opportunity to work with them as a teacher’s aide giving me the enjoyable insight of what it’s like to teach.
The reason I am addressing this letter is because I have not meeting the satisfactory requirements by attempting less than sixty-seven percent of my total class courses and it has been my fault. During the spring of 2018 most precisely, February I decided to change my major (ADN) and thus my path changed. So, I did not need two out of my fourth classes and at that moment I decided to Q drop those two them with the idea of focused my time in the other two that I had left. Another reason was the overwhelming pressure not only because I had fourth classes also because at the beginning of January/2018 my parents started a local business most exactly a cell phone repair store, and they offer me to work for them, but the thing as their “child” we had a unspoken thing, they pay for my classes and I technically work for free, and It was a completely mistake I could not handle the amount of time that I had to manage between having fourth classes in which three of those fourth courses are well known for being demanding A&P 1 , BIO for science majors, and English 2 and also the 25 to 30 hours that I had to spend in my job just oppressed myself . How am I going to enhance my attendance is based in in two to three steps depending if I get a chance of being awarded.