Senior Yearbook Quote by Alexis

Senior Yearbook Quote by Alexis - November 2018 Scholarship Essay

My senior yearbook quote would be, “ It always seems impossible until it’s done.” This would be my quote because I struggled a lot in high school. After my freshman year ended, something also came up and it affected me. Sophomore year was bad when I started to lose a friend. We were on and off and I believed that we would always be friends. We stopped talking and so that made it awkward for the other friends that we shared because they didn’t know what to do. Because of that I lost a couple of more friends. Friendship has always been hard for me because I feel like I need someone to be around me all the time. I wasn’t very independent at the time so when my other friends would talk to the one I lost, I would be so angry and soon I realized that it wasn’t worth it. Some people aren’t made to be in your life forever. Sophomore year also got hard because I had an advisor and my grades were a little low at the time and she would always be on top of me about it and make me stay after school. At the time, I felt like she was picking on me and I knew that I could raise my grades on my own. I didn’t want her to “baby” me about it. I knew she was only looking out for me but it didn’t feel like it at the time.
Junior year was rough because my mom and dad went through a lot. My dad ended up leaving us to move to North Carolina and my mom didn’t know how to handle it. She would take her anger out on my sister and I even when we didn’t do anything to make her upset. Junior year was also rough because they changed from the ACT to the SAT. I was so comfortable with the ACT and I found it to be very easy. I didn’t like the SAT at all and I found it to be very challenging. This really messed me up because I knew that these would be the scores we sent off to colleges and I know it would hinder me from getting in the college I wanted to go to. On top of all of this, I went through a breakup. We had been dating since freshman year and he was everything I knew. I didn’t know how to handle this breakup and it really affected me and school and at home. I couldn’t focus on anything, I wouldn’t eat, I lost so much weight and I couldn’t do anything. Eventually things got better because we got back together a month later.
Senior year has been rough applying for colleges and handling all of these AP classes. My senior quote relates to all of this because through my hardest times in high school, I also felt like I wouldn’t make it through: but here I am. I survived a lot when I didn’t think that I would. I have had people by my side that have helped with this and I really appreciate them for that. I now know that it takes a struggle to reach a success.