Some of my most important life goals are to be a programmer and start my own company and to be leader at my mosque. I have a lot of background experience that will be help me in my first goal. Since freshman year, I began to learn more about computers than just surfing the internet. I started learning to code on websites such as codeacademy.com. At my old school, where I studied for 9th and 10th grade, a computer science course was available. I took the class in 10th grade but our teacher caught a very bad sickness and we had a sub for most of the year. I didn 't learn much in that class but it fueled my interest in computer science further. When I moved to MacArthur in 11th grade, I searched for a computer science course but my counselor
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Ever since I was a little boy, I spent a lot of time at the mosque and helped with small things here and there. Now many people at the mosque know me and respect me. I think the most important thing about being a leader at my mosque is gaining the trust of the older generation. There are many kids at the mosque who are "cool" among the youth but resented by the adults for their disrespectful behavior. That 's why I try to get the best of both worlds, and so far I have been successful at it. I am a leader of the youth group which includes over 100 teenagers. I have hundreds of volunteer hours of tutoring and coaching soccer to kids at the mosque. Also, I am founder and president of the Muslim Students Association at my high school, which includes about thirty students. I think this last bit of experience is the one that will help me the most in reaching my goal. In my tenth grade year, me and my friends created A Muslim Students Association at our high school. We had a lot of muslims at the school so support was not hard to find. Then, when I moved to MacArthur High School because of family circumstances, I didn 't know anybody and had to make new friends again. When I got used to MacArthur after a few months, I made a MSA on my own and gathered around twenty people every friday for friday prayer, which we prayed during lunch. I also established weekly meetings among the MSA students where we studied the Quran and planned
Ever since I was a little boy, I spent a lot of time at the mosque and helped with small things here and there. Now many people at the mosque know me and respect me. I think the most important thing about being a leader at my mosque is gaining the trust of the older generation. There are many kids at the mosque who are "cool" among the youth but resented by the adults for their disrespectful behavior. That 's why I try to get the best of both worlds, and so far I have been successful at it. I am a leader of the youth group which includes over 100 teenagers. I have hundreds of volunteer hours of tutoring and coaching soccer to kids at the mosque. Also, I am founder and president of the Muslim Students Association at my high school, which includes about thirty students. I think this last bit of experience is the one that will help me the most in reaching my goal. In my tenth grade year, me and my friends created A Muslim Students Association at our high school. We had a lot of muslims at the school so support was not hard to find. Then, when I moved to MacArthur High School because of family circumstances, I didn 't know anybody and had to make new friends again. When I got used to MacArthur after a few months, I made a MSA on my own and gathered around twenty people every friday for friday prayer, which we prayed during lunch. I also established weekly meetings among the MSA students where we studied the Quran and planned