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The Future
Thinking about the future is very stressful. As a junior, I am nearing the end of my high school career and now being urged to think about what I want to do with the rest of my life. All the time I am being asked, “where do you want to go to college?”, “what do you want to major in?”, or “what do you want to be when you grow up?”. If you are anything like me, you like to have a well thought out plan for your life. My plan so far is to work as hard as I can in high school to achieve all A’s and a high GPA, get into a great college, and study to become a surgeon. At the moment I am not completely sure how I’m going to acquire these goals, but I am going to do my very best. In sophomore year of high school, we took our first practice …show more content…

I was a little late to the game regarding advanced classes such as honors and AP. Being the oldest child, my parents knew nothing about advanced classes in middle school so I missed the opportunity to grab that advantage when I got into high school unfortunately. Although, between freshman and sophomore year, my math teacher realized that his class was a little too easy for me and suggested that I test out of 10th grade math, geometry. I took his advice and over the summer I completed the class, passed my exams, and was able to jump ahead to 11th grade math, Algebra 2, where all of the other advanced students were. I would have loved to be in advanced science because now I am a year behind the other students. But in order to be where I want to be I have to take multiple science classes instead of the other electives I was interested in such as art. Because of my lateness to the advanced classes game I had to wait until this year to take an AP class to help me attain to where I want to be in college. Right now, I was only able to obtain AP Biology which I am delighted about since it points in the direction of my dream career. The other class I was going to take was AP Economics, but it was dropped because of the lack of students who signed up. Next year I plan to take all of the AP classes I can fit into my schedule that will sturdily set me up for

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