How Determination Can Change You by Maddie
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How Determination Can Change You by Maddie - January 2016 Scholarship Essay
Maddie Farmer
01/12/16
How Determination Can Change You
Determination can be used in many different ways, it can help you become the person that you want to be and will always dream to be. Determination can go further than just doing school work it can also motivate you to wake up every morning to start your day.
Determination can make me a better student. Being in high school or college you have a lot of responsibilities between school, work, and some people having families to care for. I go to high school and I have a job and in the fall I also play tennis. So I try my best to work through everything with a positive outlook and determination. Going to high school with all of my extracurricular activities while still obtaining the grades that I have. I also used determination to become a certified nurse’s assistant. As a CNA the best part of my job is seeing the smiling faces when I come into work. Helping them drives me to further my horizon towards education personally helping people makes me feel extraordinary.
When college comes around the corner I will use determination once again to get into the program that would best fit my personal goals this career is an MLT (Medical Laboratory Technician). I want to go very far into this career eventually obtaining at least a bachelor’s degree. College is the first step in the doorway to become successful in life that’s why determination is a big factor not only in school but on life itself. In order to become a better student determination will always have an immediate impact on outcomes. Even if you do not succeed at something at least you tried your best and left it all on the court. A good example of this is that I wanted to play college level tennis extremely bad for Rend Lake College but they were only letting one person in from our school due to other schools in the district, but I was not able to be in this position at least my teammate got the scholarship to play for their coach but this will not affect me because I am happy for her and have bigger goals than just playing college level tennis.
If we all use determination to become better students, we can have a better life when it comes to obtaining curtain aspects of our lives. Determination is a great skill to have because it can take you a long way towards goals not only in education but to have a great success in everything we do as a person.