College Admissions Essay: Do The Best You Can
Growing up I always heard from my parents and my teachers “do the best you can”. At the time I thought that I was doing the best I could do. I would hear that phrase day after day no matter what I did. I never minded hearing it, it was nice to heat actually. I had always earned A’s throughout elementary and middle school and all of my teachers in the private school I attended seemed to be pleased with the work that I produced. I always worked hard, and in return my teachers rewarded me with praise. I thought that I was an excellent student. This is what I believed until my freshman year of high school. My parents moved to a new school district and decided that I should attend a public high school so I could get the full high school experience.
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This was the first time a teacher of mine had given me a push to do better than I was doing. Unlike the teachers that I had had before at my private school, she seemed to know that I could do better than I was actually doing. She explained and offered to me suggestions to my writing errors that I had made. In that time, I had discovered that I was a weak writer, I had lacked basic writing skills that were expected out of freshmen high schoolers. I then found out that I was struggling because Mrs. Short wasn’t walking me through every step of my paper, she was doing this to prepare us students for college. That day was a huge turning point in my high school education. I was not longer having someone walk through every step of an assignment while holding my hand. I was no longer satisfied by doing the “best I can” because in that moment, I had learned that my work was not as good enough as I thought. I knew I needed to be better. I was determined to get an ‘A’ from that point forward. Mrs. Short had a huge effect on my writing skills today. Although I am still learning and growing to be a better writer, I think that she would be proud of my
This was the first time a teacher of mine had given me a push to do better than I was doing. Unlike the teachers that I had had before at my private school, she seemed to know that I could do better than I was actually doing. She explained and offered to me suggestions to my writing errors that I had made. In that time, I had discovered that I was a weak writer, I had lacked basic writing skills that were expected out of freshmen high schoolers. I then found out that I was struggling because Mrs. Short wasn’t walking me through every step of my paper, she was doing this to prepare us students for college. That day was a huge turning point in my high school education. I was not longer having someone walk through every step of an assignment while holding my hand. I was no longer satisfied by doing the “best I can” because in that moment, I had learned that my work was not as good enough as I thought. I knew I needed to be better. I was determined to get an ‘A’ from that point forward. Mrs. Short had a huge effect on my writing skills today. Although I am still learning and growing to be a better writer, I think that she would be proud of my