Junior Year Of High School: Self-Analysis

“She believed she could, so she did.” This motivational quote has inspired me in many ways throughout my high school years. Throughout my junior year of high school, academically, I feel like I have improved my time management skills by taking three AP classes as well as an after school class during second semester. On a personal level, I feel like I have grown to become more comfortable and confident in myself. One of the highlights of junior year was my ability to challenge myself as well as my ability to continue helping my community through volunteering. However, a setback for me would be not being able to participate because I decided to take the Criminal Justice class at Santa Ana High School. I wouldn’t consider this a major setback …show more content…
Although I had already expected a lot of reading, I should have prepared myself for that by making sure I had a reading plan that I would follow. Some strengths I discovered included my ability to review or study for tests. For second semester, I signed up for a Criminal Justice class after school, which would take away from the homework time I would have. Additionally, since I was taking AP classes, I knew that we would be going through intensive preparation for the AP exam. This threw the little time management skills I had off balance because I had to adjust to the new circumstances I was under. One project I am most proud would be the community service I have done. I am proud of my community service because I feel it represents the person I am becoming, which is someone who lends a hand to others in need. A project that I could have been better would be my Geometry scaling assignment because I did not put my best effort to make the enlarged gluestick as similar as possible to the regular sized Elmer’s glue stick. One thing that I can take away from this assignment is that I need to try to not procrastinate because I am the one who gets affected, either by receiving a low grade or gaining stress because of the length of the …show more content…
on Christmas Eve (Caring Educators Nourishing All). Every year, on Christmas Eve, hundreds of volunteers get together to help bring some holiday spirit to the less fortunate. This brings some joy to families under stressing financial situations. I actually did not know this event even existed until this year, but I enjoyed volunteering at C.E.N.A. mainly because it allowed me to see that our community is closer than it seems since we are willing to help others in our community who might not be as fortunate as us. I also enjoyed volunteering at C.E.N.A. because I was able to meet and talk to people in my