In It to Win It In the essay‚ “The Joy of Graduating” by Kate Stone Lombardi‚ describes the traditional high school valedictorian competition with the most prestigious students. The fight for the position of valedictorian has intensified over the years. Danielle Gorman‚ an elected valedictorian at Moorestown High School in New Jersey‚ was quoted by Lombardi of the qualifications and standards it took to become valedictorian. The traits Gorman describes common to valedictorians were taking on too
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Throughout my education‚ I have moved schools 3 times and every time it has been a struggle to acclimate socially‚ mentally and academically. I started at Diegueno Middle School in the middle of the seventh grade. This was now my second school in only the first half of my first year of middle school. Again I had to adapt to new people and a different course load. This school had a much higher standard of academia then my prior school and at first‚ I struggled. School felt alien to me. Time passed and
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I walked into school for the first time as a freshmen and was instantly lost‚ and not just in the directional sense. In that moment everything that my counselor had told my class came back to me. SAT’s‚ ACT’s‚ and AP’s were all random assortments of letters whose spelled-out versions were as foreign to me as the dates that I had to take the actual tests. If someone had told me I had to take my ABC diagnostic exam the next day‚ you would’ve found me at my dinner table studying that night. I was afraid
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Norris Pittman English 032 Dr. Miller 04/03/2011 Motivated to Graduate High School Growing up poor is one thing‚ but growing up poor without a father figure has to be one of the hardest obstacles in life. Well anything worth having in life is worth working for. That is why when I saw the opportunity to be the first male in my family to graduate high school‚ I ceased the moment. Failing at anything was not an option so I motivated myself a lot. My mom worked two jobs and I started to
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class and then do my homework and from the first couple weeks of school‚ i have always forgetting homework‚ and they from August to September into October to November to December‚ i have literally have not forgotten my homework which means that I have been less the grades down and more of my homework is completed and that means that I have been getting better grades who’s being the better school year which means better Middle School which means a better High School which means a better life.
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“Where are you from?” because I do not consider myself from any specific place. I have moved around several times as a child‚ which has given me the opportunity to meet different kinds of people each from distinct walks of life. Being faced with the challenge of meeting new people has taught how to come out of my comfort zone at any given moment. The experiences I have had in life has caused me to become an outgoing‚ hardworking‚ and very multicultural person. Moving around from place to place has
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Although I don’t play three sports and do all the clubs my high school has to offer‚ one thing that I don’t have that sets me apart from other candidates is dedication. I would consider myself very dedicated. As a student‚ I am a very hard worker and put effort into all my assignments. I feel like it is an important characteristic to have when entering you next step in life. In my case that next step in life is college. As for dedication‚ I do my best whenever it comes to attendance and I hate to
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The school activity that I have been most involved in would have to be Marching Band. I’ve done this activity for all 4 years of high school. I’ve gotten the opportunity to be the low brass captain for 3 of those 4 years. That leadership position has taught me how to be responsible for a whole section of the band. Its taught me how to teach others and be comfortable while doing it. At first it was difficult because I was new to playing baritone and the growth that I saw in myself I wanted to to give
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happened this past summer. After finals when my school had sent out final report cards‚ it was sad to see that my final average in my US History course did not meet the requirements to continue to the next grade. From there I had two options: to go to summer school and pass so that I may continue school at the academy or transfer schools and repeat my junior year of high school. With these two options I decided that it would be best to go to summer school and put all I had into the class so that I may
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never cared or talked about my looking‚ which made it easier for me to grab another doughnut. In the third grade‚ when I moved to a new school closer to dad’s work. When I started meeting new people I noticed that they look at me differently‚ unlike my classmates in my old school‚ whom I started this journey with and got used to my look. First day the new school I was called a bear for the first time in front of other kids who laughed agreeing with this guy who I really didn’t hate him as much as
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