Me Myself and I Essay

Growing up, I was taught that picking your battles is the best way to live your life, learning this lesson took me years and a lot of experience with people who negatively impacted my life. This lesson centers around my sports career in cheerleading and how I learned to weed out people I can’t trust. I had fallen in love with cheerleading. I loved learning new routines and performing stunts. Unfortunately, junior year in high school was my last year competing. I had made the varsity competitive…

Immediately after Elementary school, I transferred to a strict charter school and remained there for four and a half years. Though the charter school was known for its academic achievements and its high test rankings, the academic success wasn’t enough for me. I craved a more wholesome learning experience. I realized halfway through sophomore year that the academics were only half the battle. I lacked the ability to communicate efficiently with others. The move from a tight-knit school of 650…

student I learned this semester I learned different things about myself school wise and what it is like to be on my own. As a college student college showed me a different side of myself than how I was in high school. College either strengthens you or it weakens you. It shows you how to do be on time, how to be on your own, and just to be an independent individual. That is what I believe what college showed me for my first year in college. Even though it is my first year in college I…

sophomore year in high school I was struggling and not sure what direction I wanted to take myself in next year. Soon after this I found a program named Middle College which allows high school juniors and seniors to get a head start on college classes while still completing graduation requirements. This program has allowed me to complete the vast majority of my general education requirements and get a start on lower division major classes all while I was still in high school. I entered Middle…

In general, I enjoy going to service learning. Being involved in service learning has made me feel like I held more capital within the confines of my social space; a rather empowering feeling. While I’m there, my state of mind is not limited to this feeling of self-worth as I find myself more focused on engaging with the kids and being what I deem a good role model. It is during these reflections that I find myself believing I am actually a better person for attending. I attribute this to my…

I would say that my identity as a parent influences the way I interact with others. When I was younger I had to raise my younger siblings, and because of this I matured more quickly than those my own age and often found myself befriending the older kids or adults. In high school I constantly worried all the time about my siblings and my friends didn’t understand how much responsibility I had so I was viewed as the buzz kill of the group; whereas when I was with my older friends or adults they…

During my childhood, I was not able to learn social skills with my peers because they were making fun of me about physical disability. Most people assumed that I could not be socialize with other people because they thought that I was a different from them. As I learned the concepts in social psychology class that I need to learn how to approach the peers because that is the one of the important ways to make friends and get along with them by finding common so that I should have been have fun…

time that I am so down and depress years ago. Feeling overwhelmed and hopeless, I began writing all the challenges that happened from the first day of my struggle up to that present moment. I started reflecting on the issues that are bothering me. Lo and behold, writing relieved some tension I felt. If you feel down right now, you might as well do some scribbling. Trust me! You will feel so much better. Now, I feel myself writing again. Want to know why? Writing is therapeutic. I am…

To begin, I plan to be a fairly organized student and be able to get my assignments done before they are on time and have extra time to work on them incase I need to fix them. In all the facets of my life including, academic, personal, social and professional I hope to balance them in a way that helps my personality grow, my strengths show and my talents flourish. I know that I will have many opportunities and experiences in my life and a lot of the important ones will come to me during my years…

exhilaration of victory¨. Recently, I have discovered many things wrong with my health that has taken a toll on how I think and carry myself. One year ago, I was diagnosed with Stress Induced Atrial Fibrillation, a heart rhythm disorder (arrhythmias) caused by high levels of stress. With the fast paced beating comes a sharp pain that has become extremely difficult to endure over the past year. It made it hard to breathe, think, and for a period of time, difficult for me to focus in school.…