College Admissions Essay: A Self-Analysis Of Education

Educational Self-Analysis Growing up I had this mindset where I believed that if I put effort into everything I did, I could accomplish anything and everything. When I was younger school was not difficult at all for me, I had high writing scores, I accomplished high reading levels, and my brain was always learning new things. But, somewhere along it changed and school was not my interest. High school starts, everything is going well my grades are B’s and A’s then I got distracted. I started hanging out with my friends and going out. Me as a person, I get distracted super easy so once I focused on my friends instead of school everything went downhill from there. I then had a fixed mentality of why am I going to try to do good in school if I am just going to attend PC, what was the point? Don’t get me wrong I didn’t start failing, I just did average, C’s were everywhere on my report
Strive for more and never less, as she says. During school if I had a B I would get scowled, I wondered what I am doing wrong. She then said if I have a B, why don’t I have an A? Always strive for more. That really did help, she was only trying to benefit me. But, sometimes I also felt as if she was only trying to hinder my motivation and bring me down. I knew it was for my best, but the things she would say really hurt my feelings. Now as I see it, it only makes me try harder in everything I do when someone has brought me down only to prove them wrong. As this academic year progresses I am going to build onto my strengths by being more outspoken and voicing my opinion. Sometimes I tend to hold back onto things I want to say but I will stop that and speak my mind. The way I am going to address my problems is by fixing them. I want to meet my educational needs as soon as possible and if I keep talking during assignments then I won’t be focused. I want to be focused and understand every assignment that will be given to