High School ;*

     During my high school experience I have encountered academic struggles, academic accomplishments, and academic goals. These struggles push me to go on further in school, my accomplishments remind me everyday that I am strong enough to pursue anything that I want, and my academic goals remind me to keep going so that I have something else to accomplish and I should not stop until I accomplish them.
     Throughout my high school experience I have many struggles. Since I have a scholarship, I have to make sure that my Grade Point Average is a 3.0 or higher. Every semester I would become stressed out worrying about my grades and my Grade Point Average. Another struggle that I really have a hard time with is my time management. I have dance classes two to three times a week, meetings for my scholarship once a week, and singing practice once a week. It is very hard to work around my schedule to make sure that I have time for homework, studying, working out, and making time for family and friends. Sometimes if schedule is too packed I will stress myself out and start getting upset. The worst struggle of all is my extra curricular activities take up the time that I need to study. Such as dance, singing, and meetings. My dance classes take up about five hours a week and my meetings for my scholarship take up two hours a week. My singing practice takes up about two and a half hours a week. These things take up most of my time out of my week and make it really hard to set time aside to study.
     I am very proud of all of my academic achievements throughout my life. I have always been in honors classes ever since the third grade. In the sixth grade I was asked if I wanted a chance to receive an Ohio State University scholarship. I filled out papers and asked for recommendations from my teachers. Ever since then I have had a 3.0 GPA or higher. In junior high I was also in the National Junior Honor Society. In this group I set up events that were going through the school and helped with fundraising. In the eighth grade I applied to come to Early College. When I was accepted into Early College I was nervous but determined. I am now in my sophomore year of Early College and have a GPA of 3.122. These academic achievements have showed others that I really know how to work hard and go for what I want.
     Some of my goals within the next six months seem very simple but are actually really tough to complete. One goal I want to accomplish is to get a 3.5 GPA or higher. I really want to push myself to the limit because even though I have a scholarship I still want to see all of the colleges I could be accepted to or scholarships I could get. Another goal I have for myself is to start having better study habits. It seems like whenever I study I do badly on a test. Maybe it is because I study the wrong way but I honestly want to change that. I think studying is a key objective to complete because it will definitely help on my test scores. Another goal I could set for myself is to pass in all of my college classes because if I do pass them all it will look really good on my transcript when colleges look at it. This will show them that I am determined and very bright. I hope I achieve these goals because I believe I will go really far in life.
     These events make such an impact on my life and help me even when they hurt me. I do not know where I would be without my accomplishments and goals because they remind me of what I work so hard for. I hope that one day I will reach my goals and never forget my accomplishments so that they will forever build up my self esteem and happiness.