North Carolina Math Competition

In my 9th grade year I achieved first place in the North Carolina regional math competition this was an event that utterly changed who I am and resulted in the person that I am today.

My teacher was at the front of the classroom while I was in the back barely paying attention. That was until I heard my teacher say something that made my ears perk up. My teacher said “... enter the math competition and you will automatically get a 100 on the final exam for this class”. I was purely ecstatic at this proposition, so after class I went ahead and joined the preparatory club for this competition. About a month and a half of rigorous studying later, I found myself at 6:30 in the morning sitting at the direct back of the bus by myself trying to figure out if …show more content…
They started by announcing 10th place which was a girl at my school who was in 11th grade at the time and seemed like one of the best academic persons at our school. I thought to myself wow I didn't even make it into the top ten and was slightly disappointed. After a few minutes of people walking up stage and shaking hands with the director, he got a microphone and started announcing the first place winner of the competition. When I heard my name come from the speakers I almost fainted. I looked around me trying to see if anyone else who had the same name stood up and I saw no one at all. So I stood up with pins and needles racking through my body and feeling as if I was about to fall over. I walked over to the director and shook his hand. He then gave me a plaque that said I had won the regional math competition in North Carolina. I was so amazed and so happy at that moment. I realized who I was at that exact moment and that I was meant to grow up to become someone who worked hard on science and math. I had fundamentally changed into a new person as well as a person who had a direction in