TWO MILLION MINUTES AND COUNTING
"Every year, over 1.2 million students drop out of high school in the United States alone. That's a student every 26 seconds – or 7,000 a day." That's a gargantuan amount of students who aren’t aware of what they want to do with their lives so they "drop-out." I am only a freshman at Elizabethtown High School—a minuscule being in this ginormous world, but I plan to do way more with my two million minutes. I plan to be more than a minuscule being in this ginormous world by going to high school and making a change, unlike the other 1.2 million students who dropped out because "high school was too boring or ‘not important.'" This is how I will use my two million minutes and counting to my advantage.
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By participating in these clubs, I am doing way more than listing a club I joined for a college application to show the type of person I am. I am building experiences, learning different sides of myself (finding what I like), building character, and demonstrating teamwork. To elaborate, the Speech/ Debate team is a perfect demonstration of what I am implicating when I say ‘clubs build character.' This club helps you appreciate different points of views and how to apprehend how others might think compared to you, how bland their point of view can be or how ingenious and respectable their opinion seems to you. By arguing (constructively), you learn over time that not everyone might share your perspective, and how you, in reality are a teeny-tiny ant compared to the world. But once you accept that others think differently, then you won't be as trivial anymore. Another club, could be the Science for Girls club, this club teaches young girls to think for themselves; to change the stereotypical mindset of many, which is "girls aren't supposed to be scientists or girls can't…." This club diminishes this mindset and show girls that they can do anything they want, thus discovering themselves in a club. It did not take me a club to realize I wanted to be a Cardiothoracic surgeon, it took the mindset, the "I can be anything I want to be," mindset. I want to join these types of clubs to show that I stand and agree with what it teaches or represents; what the "implied theme" actually
"Every year, over 1.2 million students drop out of high school in the United States alone. That's a student every 26 seconds – or 7,000 a day." That's a gargantuan amount of students who aren’t aware of what they want to do with their lives so they "drop-out." I am only a freshman at Elizabethtown High School—a minuscule being in this ginormous world, but I plan to do way more with my two million minutes. I plan to be more than a minuscule being in this ginormous world by going to high school and making a change, unlike the other 1.2 million students who dropped out because "high school was too boring or ‘not important.'" This is how I will use my two million minutes and counting to my advantage.
In high …show more content…
By participating in these clubs, I am doing way more than listing a club I joined for a college application to show the type of person I am. I am building experiences, learning different sides of myself (finding what I like), building character, and demonstrating teamwork. To elaborate, the Speech/ Debate team is a perfect demonstration of what I am implicating when I say ‘clubs build character.' This club helps you appreciate different points of views and how to apprehend how others might think compared to you, how bland their point of view can be or how ingenious and respectable their opinion seems to you. By arguing (constructively), you learn over time that not everyone might share your perspective, and how you, in reality are a teeny-tiny ant compared to the world. But once you accept that others think differently, then you won't be as trivial anymore. Another club, could be the Science for Girls club, this club teaches young girls to think for themselves; to change the stereotypical mindset of many, which is "girls aren't supposed to be scientists or girls can't…." This club diminishes this mindset and show girls that they can do anything they want, thus discovering themselves in a club. It did not take me a club to realize I wanted to be a Cardiothoracic surgeon, it took the mindset, the "I can be anything I want to be," mindset. I want to join these types of clubs to show that I stand and agree with what it teaches or represents; what the "implied theme" actually