Two! Four! Six! Eight! Who do we appreciate? Reza! Reza! Yay! The crowd went on to clap as I, a young third grader who ran to be the elementary vice president. It felt like I was unstoppable, after what just happened to me. The sweet that ran from my face started to dry as I walked down the stairs from the gym stage. I Knowing that I will never get the nomination from the school, because of one single mistake, that every man and woman will make in their lifetime. The mistake of misspelling which will haunt me forever. You see when I was applying to become the next vice president of my elementary school. I had the confidence that I am unstoppable, that I will win the Nomination and become the person whom people would look up too. However, my opportunity was blown like a dandelion in the wind on a hot summer day. Why is it when I make an honest to god mistake, everyone turns on you, an error of misspelling vice president on every single poster with my name on it and my picture next to " Vice Presdent." …show more content…
Instead, I took down every single poster that I have ever made. The anger that rushed through my blood, A whole slew of emotions going through my young and naive brain. My friends were not much help either. They taunted my academic integrity, calling me an "Idiot," "stupid," and "Should be in kindergarten." The time as come for me to give my speech which would be the last nail in my coffin after what happened to my dream of becoming vice president of Cherry Chase Elementary school. After I finished my speech, my math teacher who was very fond of Albert Einstein ironically also looked like him, said: " Albert Einstein said that A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." I merely shrugged at him and walked
For this assignment, I interviewed my mother Elaine Meskouris. Director at Evlavia Doulavarous Preschool in Flushing, NY. 1. Me: So Mrs. Meskouris, why did you become a preschool director?
In 1974, former President Nixon resigned from office and Gerald Ford became the temporary president. One of the first executive orders that Ford did was pardon Nixon for his crimes against the United States. The entire scandal had, “driven a stake into the heart of traditional national politics.” (Farber, 27) This controversy was not only publicized nationally, but severely damaged the American people’s already withering relationship with their government.
The balloons are out, the flowers are in bloom, I smell summer. I smell a summer like no other. Not because the groundhog came out early this year, or because I was one year older, but because I was a graduate, from Gilkey International middle school (finally). Sophie comes up to me yelling, super excited for the night ahead, graduation. As we rehearse our ceremony, in our high inched heels and dainty fake eyelashes Charlie runs up behind us screaming in our ear jumping us out of our own skin.
Counting down the list from number 20 to eventual number 1, my heart raced as they called out the names. It was 8th grade and the rankings were out. This may seem like a rather pretentious achievement but when they called out the name “Andrea Campos” as the valedictorian of Copiague middle school. My heart skipped a beat and tears streamed down my face. Hearing my parents brag about me to their friends made me feel like my accomplishment was their achievement as well.
When I started high school, the club that excited me the most, was National Honors Society. So, at the first chance I got, in my sophomore year. After being a member for a year, I quickly realized that I wanted to take on a leadership opportunity in the club. So, I took a shot for the stars, and campaigned for being president of Honors Society. Though I had some competition, I put my all into composing a speech, and I won the presidency, and I have been president since.
As I was walking toward the booth to take my literacy test. I could feel the sweat building up on my forehead as I take each step forward. I knew most people failed this test, which made me even more nervous as I wiped the sweat of my face. My shirt was already drenched as I picked up my pencil to start the test. If I pass this test, I will be able to vote in every election.
1. As a young Fire Control Technician Third Class (FT3), I served under Fire Control Technician Chief (FTC) Chuck Thompson. Strong and proud, he stood like a massive oak tree in every room he entered; his mere presence demanded respect.
Waves of nausea and dread swept over me as I contemplated the true extent of my failure to convince my parents. After working for three long years toward the exalted senior year, I was stripped of my illustrious power as a reigning senior in one horrifying instant. I would not be the aloof, superior by default senior; I would be the nervous, disoriented new kid with no friends and no idea where my next class was. In a few short weeks, everything in our house would be packed up, as would my life in
I am a leader, a whole hearted person that believes in the greater good, a selfless individual, an intellectual young adult, and a brave character, and it is on account of these qualities that I feel Montclair State University is the school for me. Being that I am an individual that has matured intellectually, emotionally, and now has the motivation needed to seek a positive trajectory and path in life, and I believe this school could only help further my growth as a person and strengthen my academic abilities. Writing has always been one of my strong suits and it is the best method I’ve learned as a way to express myself. Growing up, I had a rough childhood, and it was through reading and writing that I learned to better my perspective towards life.
When I started Unity High School I thought that it was going to be boring school because my first choice was Skyline but my mom made me come to this school so I had to obey what my mom wants because she takes care of me and helps me with whatever I need help with so going to the school that she wanted me to go to was the least I could have done. I thought that high school was going to be difficult because the work that my brother would bring home when he was in high school looked really hard and I did not understand most of the work he needed to complete. But I realized that I need to be taught the material before I go on and do the work
Over the course 3 years in High School, the mistakes I made are what people identified me with. While many of these mistakes are something I may partially regret, I realize that this “partially” is an underscore of what I see. Many of these mistakes I made happened at a much different circumstance that what others had dealt with before. I was able to make those mistakes in a setting and perception that nobody else could afford. While everyone changed, grew, and matured, I had the opportunity to stay behind and develop an ideology that exceeded well beyond the capacity of others.
One day during school in the announcements they said that you can start running for student body president. I wanted to run for it so bad. I went to my friends Samantha, Taylor, Melanie, and Cortney to tell them that I was going to run for it. Samantha said “That’s a good idea. We should help make flyers and stickers to give people so they know you are running for it”.
Next year at Embry-Riddle I plan start studying Cyber Intelligence and Security. Ever since middle school I knew I had a developing interest in the field of computer science and spent most of my time building the skills to excel in my classes. One of the first projects I got to use the computer on was a video for the Oregon Trail. I decided that it would be best to design an advertisement to showcase the facts in a new and creative way. When my group turned the project in, and it was shown to the class my teacher rewrote the assignment according to what we did and used it as an example of great work when recruiting new people.
“I rose above him as he tried to dunk it. I TOOK THE BALL RIGHT OUT OF HIS HANDS! Yep, we were, like, ten feet off the ground, but I was still able to reach out and steal the ball from Rowdy. Even in mid air, I could see the absolute shock on Rowdy’s face. He couldn’t believe I was flying with him.
I became speechless, filled with regret and sorrow. I wanted to take the one word back that had changed my high school experience forever. I had not only failed myself, but I had also failed those who looked up to me as a leader. I never told my dad because I felt too ashamed