Essay About Myself

I could lie to you and tell you that I’m surrounded by miraculous people who have changed and influenced my life. Or, I could tempt you with a story about a wonderful role model I’ve had. However, neither of those story lines would be true. I’m not influenced easily. I don’t have a wonderful role model, and people have definitely not changed my life. Experiences have changed my life and challenged me; however, that doesn’t make me unique. Everyone’s had to overcome adversity in his or her life.
On the surface I think I am like most young and modern Bahamian women: I take school seriously, I have dreams and goals for the future that I am determined to make happen, and I don’t expect anyone to do the hard work for me. As a 17 year old 12th grader of St.Paul’s Methodist College, I come from what is an increasingly normal background: my parents are not together and I live with my mother, sister and step father and only occasionally see my father since he lives a great distance away. However I still feel very lucky to have a supportive, if spread out, family behind me. What makes me different from the rest of the crowd though is how I choose to fill my time away from school. I come from a middle income background so I knew I’d have to get a job in the summers and/or after school to help fund college, but instead of getting the easiest job I could find like many of my friends, I purposely sought work that would teach me new skills as well as give me a sense of fulfillment. .
My grades have always been high and I am especially proud of this because I don’t naturally excel in all subjects. Mathematics has always been a challenge for me because I often find it too be confusing, spelling too, but I have learned through my involvement with many varsity level sports that quitting never feels as good as conquering your own fears. I am now on the cusp of attending college and preparing for a career, and I am confident that the determination I have displayed thus far will only grow stronger as my course work becomes more demanding. At this point I want to focus on a career in Marinetime because Marine transportation is a job which needs people with high leadership skills. It also is a great responsibility, with navigation being roughly the most difficult skill to learn. It also is a field that’s pretty well saturated. However a lot of the jobs now are in the range of cargo, for which you could be at sea for months. I know that I am young and the career path I find myself on after earning an undergraduate degree may be very different from what I envision now, but I plan to make my college education a well rounded and broadening one. Hopefully this allows me to explore both my academic and artistic interests so that wherever the future takes me I will have a solid foundation upon which to build a career.
Amongst my accomplishments, I am Prefect for the 2013-2014 school years, Vice President of the Interact Club, part of the Governor General Youth Award where presently I am working towards achieving my bronze medal. I am very active in sports as I play on my high school soccer team, the captain and member of my softball team. I represented my school in track and field events locally and nationally. I have obtained one BGCSE in English Language with a C. I registered to sit 7 more as I wish to pass each with A’s. I have received numerous Honor Roll and Honor Roll Recognition Certificates. My GPA for the Christmas term was 3.11. I am pushing myself to receive an even higher GPA for my last and final report card in the Easter.
I feel such relief and gratitude to know that I have found my calling, and I am eager to begin this new stage of my education. Certainly the next four years will be challenging—requiring much juggling of schedules and time management expertise--but I have done it before, and with my clear goal in my mind, I know I can do it again with equal or greater success.