My Future I believe the best future is an unforeseen future, put in the hands of an unfailing and trustworthy God. This is something I’ve only recently begun to come to terms with. My past feels plagued with feelings of anxiety about my future, but everything that has happened until this very moment has been a blessing to me. I worried about so many things and lacked trust in God so often that I never took time to appreciate where I was in life. That sounds cliché, but I think experiencing clichés like this are inevitable. Some things must be learned through experience and growth, and learning to experience life by the moment is one of those things. I’m not saying I don’t think about my future or have plans and ideas, I just do my best to refrain from worrying about what will happen. While I worried about nearly everything, from what I would wear the next day to where I …show more content…
As soon as I started my freshman year of high school, I began worrying about where I would go to college and what kind of grades I would need to get there. I attended a small but rigorous private school which made the pressure even worse. For a long time, I had medical issues that I constantly feared would get in my way the rest of my life. Almost nothing worked out the way I thought it had to in order prosper and be happy in the future. Nevertheless, everything turned out okay in the end. I grew to learn to love and cherish every person that comes into my life. I ended up at my first choice college in a city I never thought I’d live in before. The most important thing I learned was trusting God to direct my path and control my future. Learning this has made me appreciate the little moments in life and even the moments where I don’t feel my best. I have learned what I care about most in life, which is having an impact on the lives of those around me and being a light to people’s
The things that my parents encountered made me a grateful person. I was fortunate enough to receive the right guidance in life to succeed. Port Arthur, Texas has made me into a motivated and determined person wanting to help the less fortunate. Surviving Hurricane Ike in 2008 gave me the mindset that anything is possible. Experiencing the crime made me very close to my family and friends because they could be dead the next
I learned to smile more. Doing the Markham Service Learning project, I learned that it is okay to be loud. I learned to have more patience when helping others up off the ground. I learned to be a better
As a student, I have grown in my skills for academic success by having to write an essay in my Honors English class. We’ve recently finished reading the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and were told to write an essay about one of the given prompts. Before having to write this essay, I was struggling with the type of vocabulary and perspective, which was third-person, I was supposed to use. I had to find the right quotes from the book and explain in detail how they support the prompt, I felt that was the hardest for me. The words “I” or “me” weren’t allowed in the essay, unless they were in quotes.
So the next time you wonder about the future, think about your past and you may be
I learned that life is going to be messy and different. I changed for the better after the move and I wouldn’t be who I am if I
Everyone Grows Up Sometime: Coming of Age in To Kill a Mockingbird Prior to the spring break of my seventh grade year, I didn’t know how harsh the world could really be. I mean I knew about sickness, violence, death, all that good stuff, but I just sort of blew it off because nothing in my life had happened to where I needed to face those things. When I was 12 during spring break, I was as happy as any child would be on their spring vacation, but one day my parents pulled me and my brother aside and told us some pretty devastating news. They had told us that our grandfather had passed away in a house fire a few days ago.
I do not that not let any setbacks or obstacles interfere with my education. I have maintain a 3.7 GPA despite of my after school job during my junior year. My mom told me during my tenth grade year that my junior year was going to either make me or break me. She explained I had to be really on top of my studies and I had no room for small mistakes.
Reflecting on my personal and educational goals I believe UNCW, Wilmington will not only allow me to grow as a student or person, but will create new challenges in my life that will lead to fulfilling my goal of becoming a successful woman someday. Growing up in a small town off the Coast of Maine, I have grown up learning to do things on my own and that things in life aren 't handed to you. Since I was able to work I have been; racking blueberries, hauling lobster traps, digging for clams, working in diners, and much more. I have learned to be independent and to not have to rely on others. The one thing in life I have always wanted is to be able make something of myself and to build a successful future and not have to stress or struggle.
By the time I graduate high school, I will already have my college associate degree that I will have earned through my hard work and dedication. Even though I went through a lot at such a young age, it has shaped me in every possible way. I was exposed to a whole different language and culture, but I was able to succeed through my strong desire of success and dedication. I am thankful for every challenge that I had to go through because if it was not for them, I would not be the person I am
It is important to live in the present and not in the future. For today is a sure thing, but tomorrow might never
An archetype is a pattern of behavior that can help us understand ourselves and others. To have a greater understanding of myself, I recognized the person archetype of a student within myself and the archetype of a journey throughout my four years in high school. These archetypes helped me throughout high school and helped me gain knowledge that I can apply throughout my life. My first archetype is one that many people experience within their life, a student. Everyone in their life has learned something either by learning from others or from themselves (Archetypes, Intellectual archetypes).
I have learned how to not give up when times get tough. There have been plenty of times where I missed weeks of school and I thought that I wouldn’t be able to pass my classes. I learned that not everyone understands what I go through. I have tried to explain what Sickle Cell is to my friends many times and they had trouble understanding what it is.
Just the thought of not knowing what I was supposed to do with the rest of my life made the last little bit of my senior year, very stressful. I then found out that not knowing and being undecided was perfectly okay and I was ready to begin my freshman year at Saint Petersburg College. Talking about graduating high school always seemed unrealistic because it was such a huge goal. After graduation, I had never felt so proud of myself.
I learned that any barrier you face there is always an option to overcome it and be successful. I can grow by working my hardest on my school work and never giving up, even when things get hard. I also learned that time management is a very great skill to obtain at this time in my life, because college courses take time, effort, and lots of patience. I must give myself time to prepare for class work and especially exams. Having a schedule for my school work and my personal life is the best choice to help me stay on track.
When I graduate high school, I plan on having future goals that I plan on achieving. My first goal is to go to college and get a degree. I plan on attending Purdue NorthWest majoring in engineering and minoring in business. This is my number one future goal that I need to accomplish because to be able to have a nice life, I need to go to college to support my future family. My next future goal would be get a starting job to be able to support my future family.