Persuasive Essay For College

Baylee, Trevor, and then Dylan. Growing up, I was always third. That’s just the way it has been. The trouble with being the last child in your family, is that almost everything has already been accomplished by the time it is your turn. Whether it was simply winning an award in the sixth grade for perfect grades or scoring a goal in a soccer game, Baylee and Trevor had already accomplished those things. I guess that is just how it is when your siblings were state qualifying runners, basketball stars, Peony Queen Runner-Up, class presidents, and a whole other list of achievments. It felt as if I was not striving to do achieve anything for myself, but trying to catch up with my siblings. This did help motivate me to do my best, but in the few …show more content…
When I was not competing I was studying and learning new things during school. It soon became apparent that even though I could not beat Baylee and Trevor in atheletics, I could beat them in academics. So that is what I did. I not only become one of the best in the class, but I also integrated into my schedule a total of eight college classes along with my regular high school classes through college credit plus. I have to admit, at first they were pretty challenging. The fact that they were six of them were completely online was something completely different to me. I did struggle to get integrated into them and did not do very well with my first three, but I feel I bounced back with all of my other ones. One the simple highlights of my academics was the mere fact that I was able to obtain and hold a 100% or higher for five out of our nine week quarter in my college calculus class, which my teacher, Miss Rohrs, said had never been done before. Take that Trevor! Of course though, it had to end with just a simple 98% on one of my quizes. After all is said and done however, I would not want to change my life with