Most Significant Accomplishments
4. What do you feel is your most significant accomplishment? My most significant accomplishment is stepping out of my comfort zone freshman year and joining the Forensics team. I no longer have a fear of public speaking in front of people whom I don't know. I have made tons of new friends and developed new opinions and views on certain aspects that affect our world. I have competed at state twice and been told by multiple people I always look happy and engaged watching other people's pieces. I am competing at state for my last time in March and have such an appreciation for everyone who has helped me the past three years.
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Describe any significant person, event, or happening that has influenced you:
My great uncle Eddie greatly influenced the person I am now. He was the kindest, compassionate, charismatic, and unconditional loving person I have ever met. He taught me the values of hard work, respect, and a how to be a leader in my own way. No one ever had anything to say bad about him. He was a talented wood carpenter whom always won awards at county fairs. He treated my great aunt like a queen and showed me how I should be treated. My family has grown closer together since his passing causing us to appreciate the time we have on earth. It has been seven months since he passed and not a day goes by I wish to …show more content…
Have you overcome a challenge? (i.e. changed schools, self-esteem, academic performance, disease, handicap) Respond in detail: A challenge I have had to overcome in my life is my parents financial stability and job stability. After my mother was physically hurt at work and could no longer to work both jobs, our financial problems became prevalent in my life. My mother had costly doctor's visits and my dad had just started a new job. As the years by at times we would have less than twenty dollars on the bank account. We could no longer buy supplies needed for my school projects. I would have to scrape up loose change to attend dances .Entering high school my father and I started drawing social security. We have not had financial trouble in the past three years and have been able to take vacations in great
Describe any significant person, event, or happening that has influenced you:
My great uncle Eddie greatly influenced the person I am now. He was the kindest, compassionate, charismatic, and unconditional loving person I have ever met. He taught me the values of hard work, respect, and a how to be a leader in my own way. No one ever had anything to say bad about him. He was a talented wood carpenter whom always won awards at county fairs. He treated my great aunt like a queen and showed me how I should be treated. My family has grown closer together since his passing causing us to appreciate the time we have on earth. It has been seven months since he passed and not a day goes by I wish to …show more content…
Have you overcome a challenge? (i.e. changed schools, self-esteem, academic performance, disease, handicap) Respond in detail: A challenge I have had to overcome in my life is my parents financial stability and job stability. After my mother was physically hurt at work and could no longer to work both jobs, our financial problems became prevalent in my life. My mother had costly doctor's visits and my dad had just started a new job. As the years by at times we would have less than twenty dollars on the bank account. We could no longer buy supplies needed for my school projects. I would have to scrape up loose change to attend dances .Entering high school my father and I started drawing social security. We have not had financial trouble in the past three years and have been able to take vacations in great