Personal Narrative: My Past Accomplishments

Every day I wake up determined to do more than I did the day before. My past achievements include gaining leadership skills, being on a varsity sport, and learning outside of school. I have been in tennis for eight years and varsity for three years, where I have received two awards for most improved player. I was accepted into the program “Trees for Tomorrow” where I learned how to manage and use natural resources in a classroom and in field studies. I participated in a new sport, a cross country ski team, where it taught me skills and strengthened my mind set about myself. My early years of high school, I was part of the backstage crew for a play, performed at my high school. The theatrical plays were terrible, under equipped, with barely
I became a counselor in training for one summer and I found out what I wanted, not to be a counselor. I was perfect for the job, went to camp consecutively each summer, was energetic, was a great team player, worked well with children. But I felt I was needed somewhere else. Last summer I was offered a short term job, sorting files onto a computer. I was very professional, well organized, attentive to detail, but when I had completed my assignment I was done working there. I know now I do not want to work in an office. With each job or adventure I become more certain with my abilities and aware of what I want to do. UWRF was my first college acceptance letter I had received in December and since then that is the university I see myself accomplishing the most in. Someone once told me to choose a major based on my avocations and accomplishments. I have taken diverse, challenging classes through high school, that is my reasoning for going in as undecided. When I come to UWRF this fall, I will be a sheet of paper, with writing on the back that sticks out to the blank side. The written side are decisions that brought me here, and the blank side is for the memories that will be created at