The push of a good counselor by Aaliya

The push of a good counselor by Aaliya - October 2019 Scholarship Essay

Growing up in a household where I am the 5th child of parents who came from Mexico to America for a better chance I just always thought education was something really important. My parents or siblings never really brought up the importance of education when I was younger but it was something I always knew I had to work hard for. I may not be the brightest person but that never stopped me from trying, that is till I got to high school. All of my friends and classmates just seemed to be naturally good in academics and I started to question if college would just be wasted on someone like me. I started feeling really down and talked down on myself making myself too scared to turn in assignments because in my head I thought I wasn’t going to get a good enough grade anyway. My situation at home wasn’t any help with this problem my parents were constantly arguing and I didn’t want to bother them with my school troubles thinking it will make them be more upset and turn their arguing on me. It was getting harder and I felt stuck and keeping everything in me was no help when I was at school and that’s when I decided to go talk to my school counselor Mr.Cyr. Talking to him made me realize how college won’t be wasted on me in matter of fact going to college would be one of the best things I can do for myself. He taught me how to open up about my issues and see them and overcome them. I learned now that believing everything you say to yourself in your head isn’t always true, and so all those negative thoughts would still pop up telling me I shouldn’t turn that assignment in if it won’t do well anyways learned that instead of being scared of bad grades I should accept them and learn how to better from them in order to grow academically and learn from mistakes. Mr.Cyr was one of my biggest helpers in my education so much that when I told him I wanted to do a dual credit program he told me to go for it and how much it can help me in the future. So now I’m in my dual credit school doing pretty well so far in my senior year. I’m happy how much I grew from a scared freshman with bad grades to a happy and hardworking senior now, and I couldn’t have seen my full academic potential if it wasn’t for my wonderful high school counselor Mr.Cyr.