Sophomore slump

Proof of this can first be seen through my high school soccer career. During my Sophomore and Junior years, I was chosen to play on the JV team which is something that would discourage most players. Once my senior year came along, I could either settle and be a bench player or work hard and become a starter. In the offseason I dedicated…

demoted to JV. It’s something a athlete never wants to hear. To reach the point where you are on the varsity team, and then to feel as if all of that hard work was taken away from you. It’s debilitating. I had to hear these words the spring of my sophomore year, after playing the first quarter of the season on the varsity team. I had taken my role on the team for granted, assuming my place was secure while allowing my level of play to drop. I felt like a failure, but in the end it was a…

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…

time I saw the play La Virgen de Tepeyac and was captivated and took the play to heart. I decided to join the play the following year.Since freshmen year I have participated in the La Virgen Del Tepeyac play.At first as one of the towns people.My sophomore year I became a musician. We would practice in September until we preformed in December.We would preform in various churches and convey the message of the play.For four years I have preformed the play and never get tired of it and my…

In New York State, Regents are state administered exams given to evaluate each student in order to promote to the subsequent grade. The exam of the day was Earth Science, the “hardest” exam for High School Sophomores. A random teacher, who often walked out of the classroom, was proctoring the exam. Surprisingly, many of the students began to exchange answers and exams. Due to the commotion, the teacher returned and asked, “ Isn’t this a Regents exam, who is…

always required the very best no matter what the circumstance is; on the pitch, in the classroom, or in everyday life you had to put one hundred percent in everything you do, or else there’s somebody is ready to take your job. One example is my sophomore year in high school my coach said I would get big minutes this year. That was not the case my touch on the ball, and work ethic dropped off when I was subbed out for a much better player early in the season after our foreign exchange students…

My narrative essay is from when I first discovered I wanted to be a teacher and how it came about. It was not a triumph or anything of that sort, it took a struggle for me discover what I wanted to be. It also took the encouragement and help of a highschool teacher that I didn’t even have for class at the time, but he was committed to helping me. My first two years of highschool I didn’t care about grades or what I got as long as my grades were good enough to keep playing sports, everything was…

church. Nonetheless, I was not prepared for my first volleyball injury. Because of my injury, I have learned the adult skill of patience. Since my first year of freshman volleyball, I have learned to love the game. After receiving the M.V.P award my sophomore year in my school’s J.V team and playing all-around my junior year in varsity, I was determined to make my senior year, my most successful volleyball year yet. However, my whole vision turned upside down after I tore my Achilles tendon. I…

One of the most common mistakes people make is that they define talent and skill synonymously. However, they are two completely different things. Talent you have naturally, you don’t have to work at it. Skill is ability developed from hours and hours of practice at your craft. My best talent is by far my ability to succeed in school, and my natural affinity for STEM topics. However, I believe that my greatest skill comes in Water Polo. I joined Water Polo in seventh grade, because I was too…

Head Collisions Many people know me as the clumsy or danger prone girl. I tend to get hurt a lot. Most of the times it is a quick recovery and I am back at whatever I like to do best in no time. During the end of my junior year and beginning of my senior year I got diagnosed with two separate concussions. These incidents happened within five months of each other which isn’t good when playing a sport that uses your head a lot. Both of my concussions happened the same way, they came from playing…