Ring, ring, ring…. Everyone in the room turned with a look of surprise and when I met the director's eyes I could foresee the lecture I was about to receive. I was in the middle of an after school rehearsal for our upcoming musical, and the number one rule in rehearsal was no cell phones. I blurted out a jumble of words about how sorry I was, and ran off stage to grab the phone and silence it. When I reached for it, my screen informed me that it was my mother calling. I certainly didn’t want two scoldings in one day, so I answered the call prepared to tell her I was busy. Before I could say a thing she shouted, “Your letter is here.” My immediate reaction was to be nervous. Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts (ASMSA) was a school for high achieving juniors and seniors, and they only selected the best students from Arkansas. I had applied a few months earlier, and the wait to see if I had gotten in was killing me. It was obvious from the tone of my mother’s voice and her insistence on
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My future is one of the most important things to me; because of this I have always put focus on my education, worked my hardest to achieve understanding of the subjects I am taking, and tried my best in those subjects. At ASMSA the effort I had to put into these tasks doubled. I have a few health problems which are considered to be disabilities. These disabilities require medication, some which cause drowsiness and frequent trips to the doctor. My medication and doctor’s visits usually cause me to miss more than a desired amount of school. Though my missed days had proven to be a challenge in the past, I made it through all of my classes at my old school quite easily. ASMSA was definitely different, I had to make it my top priority to stay focused on my education and keep my grades up. I had to be persistent about acquiring my course work and finishing it in a timely
My future is one of the most important things to me; because of this I have always put focus on my education, worked my hardest to achieve understanding of the subjects I am taking, and tried my best in those subjects. At ASMSA the effort I had to put into these tasks doubled. I have a few health problems which are considered to be disabilities. These disabilities require medication, some which cause drowsiness and frequent trips to the doctor. My medication and doctor’s visits usually cause me to miss more than a desired amount of school. Though my missed days had proven to be a challenge in the past, I made it through all of my classes at my old school quite easily. ASMSA was definitely different, I had to make it my top priority to stay focused on my education and keep my grades up. I had to be persistent about acquiring my course work and finishing it in a timely