Sophomore

During my Sophomore year of High School, I was struggling with keeping my grades up and depression. I had no motivation that whole year. It was right after the start of the second semester that my parents approached me and made a plan to help my grades. They didn’t know that I was depressed. I never got any help with my depression from anyone but myself. It was unimaginably hard to dig myself out of the hole I was in and required an extreme amount of dedication. I realize that my Sophomore year does not reflect a driven student and I hope you can see that it does not reflect who I truly am. I was still depressed until the summer and I began to lift 4 days a week with the football team. Our coach who was in charge of the lifting program always…

I have never really thought of myself as a leader, because I was usually quiet and self centered. Sophomore year was the year I truly became assertive and controlling that made me become a “leader”. Besides being challenged in academics and music, my role in sports became more defined that year. Track season during spring started out fine as everything was relaxing and looking good. With a small core of discus and shotput throwers, around three out of six of us were looking to go big. We learned…

In high school my most outstanding example of a time when I set an example as a student leader was my sophomore year in high school. My sophomore year of high school I was brought up to the varsity soccer team, the team that I was on was not extremely hard working and or dedicated. As a sophomore I was afraid to stand up and verbally tell the entire team that we need to step it up, or we are going to have a horrible season, so I decided to make my statement apparent by my actions. First, I…

The start of sophomore year was an off to go a good start I was in honors classes, getting over my ex, and had the best friends. At least that's how it was seen from the outside no one knew that underneath my clothes were endless lines carved into my skin. Other habits got picked up I was avid drug user and alcoholic, and most days I showed up to school high. I stopped caring about my education, theatre, even my own life putting in the bare minimum to get by every day. By the end of my sophomore…

At the end of Sophomore year to the end of Junior year, I have seen a huge change. My goals, work ethic, mindset, the whole package. Throughout the past year I have learned to love myself. I have grown to be more confident and comfortable with my body. At the end of Sophomore year I was awkward and skinny. Throughout the year I have started to lift weights and enjoy building mass. The most important change, however, was not physical, but mental. The change that was the most drastic was my…

1. When did you start taking the program? What year are you in now? I joined the Engineering program my freshman year. I was invited to join the Space Program my Sophomore year because of my dedication and technical skills. I have completed one year of the Space Program, and look forward to two more years in the program. 2. What have you gotten out of the program? I have learned real life skills in the program. It has taught me to work independently, and it has taught me to…

pretty good grades ranging from b’s to c’s I passed all my classes. That summer I hanged out with bad influences around me and my sophomore year I did horrible. I only passed four classes. This made me realize that I needed to make a change in my school lifestyle. My parents were disappointed in me this was one of the things that helped me change. My summer after my sophomore year something happened that changed my mindset. I decided I want to do something with life after high school but, I…

Sensory Details - Sight - Sound - Touch - Taste - Smell Today is the day that i become a high school student and i’m a little nervous. Being a Freshman is something everyone dreads on the first day. The sun is still hot and bright from summer weather, i can feel the sweat dripping off my forehead. The big yellow bus pulls up to my stop and dust starts flying in the air. Once I step on, the recent stench of old, smelly, dirty socks hits me like a train. Every year the smell becomes stronger…

And after failing to make the soccer team my sophomore year, my race coach decided it was time to move up to something bigger and faster, we decided on dirt track racing in the stock truck division because it was different just like me. Moving up meant I had to find sponsors, my favorite sponsor happens to be the small town barbeque shack because he is a part of my community and it is incredible to feel the communities support. I also had to get to work on my truck, it was a lot of hard work and…

College Essay 2. The lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success. Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience? A time I experienced failure was my junior year of high school. It was a time of change. A time where I began to look at colleges. For me I saw it as a chance at redemption. I was looking at being at the top of my game this school year after a lackluster spring semester during my…