College Admissions Essay: My High School Experience

Everyone believes that college is different than high school, in some ways yes, in others not so much. My high school experience was successful, I had many achievements and memories I will not forget. I have learned lessons that I will remember through the rest of my career. There have been multiple defeats, but also multiple wins. The great thing about athletics is that when you are able to manage getting all of your work done with practices or meets. There have been multiple occasions that we have a track meet the night before a bunch of tests so in order to get a good grade, I make to do lists to keep me on track. This forces me to get my work done in school instead of doing it after a meet when we get home at 9 at night. This helps enable that I get a good night's sleep so I will be ready to learn the next day. In order to maintain good grades I have to have good time-management skills and I do. I am continuing my running career in college so I will have to take all that I have learned in high school and apply it to my academics in college. In college meets will be farther away so we might have to stay the night somewhere missing more than …show more content…
In high school I have taken many accelerated courses that were difficult to me. I am not a student that can just listen in class and then get an A on the test. I have to study or I will fail. I could have just took the easy route and took the basic classes but I decided that I would take the challenge and shoot for an A. I am glad I did because life after high school is going to be challenging. College is more vigorous than high school and your teachers are not going to be as lenient. College sports are going to be the same way for me as I am going to run at Eastern Illinois University which is a Division I school. I am not receiving a scholarship for running I am just a walk-on so I will be slower than most the girls but once again I will be challenging myself to train harder than I ever