My Life And Major Changes In The Last Two Years

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often” Winston Churchill. People change sometimes for the better sometimes for the worse, but the change in my life over the last two years has been nothing but positive. Major differences between my old self and who I am now are my academics, my goals, and my social life. Two years ago as a junior in high school it was my first year in private school, and now I’m a freshman in college. At the beginning of my junior year, I transferred into a private school a week before school started. The only reason for the transfer was to play football and have a better wrestling coach. The public school I attended before transferring did not have a football program and a lack luster wrestling team. The change of pace was incredible from public to private. I was …show more content…
In my final two high school years I had three main goals set for myself. The first of those goals was to graduate high school, for at one point in time this seemed like a reach. The second was to get into at least one college. No one in my family has ever even been accepted into a college before. Out of the thirteen I applied to I was accepted to twelve. The third goal I had for myself was to become a better athlete. I am proud to say I achieved all three of my goals. I now have three new goals for myself. The first is to get at least a 2.8 GPA this semester; this is a reachable goal that is more of a confidence booster than anything. The second is to get a summer internship in the field of Sports Journalism. So far my progress towards this is that I reached out to and got a response from the executive editor at ESPN the magazine, Steve Wulf, for he is an alumni of my high school and former resident of my hometown. The third is to make the Utica Men 's Rugby Club team roster, for I discovered in my senior year of high school that rugby is a passion of