Your Actions Make You by Tania

Your Actions Make You by Tania - March 2019 Scholarship Essay

Welcome to high school. It is the place where everything you do within the next four years counts towards your future. Your actions and motivation will either break you or make you, where they will either open various doors filled with opportunities or never open at all. Your involvement, grades, and motivation all do mater.
Take everything seriously, I truly mean it. Nothing is more concerning to upperclassmen and teachers than seeing freshmen goof around and take high school as a joke. It may not mean anything to a freshman, but when you are a senior in Algebra I, will it still be funny? Imagine goofing around your freshman year, with straight F’s, believing you can just retake the class, but you also fail a few classes any other year in high school, now the reality of not graduating is becoming even more true with every class that is failed.
Many parents wish for their child to get a good education, many go as far as to move from a different country in order to be able to give their child that free education which they were never able to get, but it can be heartbreaking to those around the student to witness how they do not put in the effort to be successful. If you are aware of your actions during freshman year and put in the effort to not only pass the class, but also to understand the content being taught, you will not only be winning at learning, but also in preparing to apply to universities and scholarships down the road, who like to see students challenging themselves, as well as school involvement.
Being a freshman once, my biggest fears was failing a class. I had the mindset that if I failed a class not a single university would want me, but I learned that if you fail a class and continue to be on track, retaking it is the best option. From my experience, my freshman year was pretty easy, only having two honors classes, but I knew it could have been more of a challenge and I could have pushed myself more had I been more determined, which I was second semester, causing me to end the year with a really good GPA. Freshman and sophomore year are the years where it is all or nothing because they are the years where your GPA can be easily affected. Once you start junior or senior year, it becomes harder to get your GPA up, which is why it is important to do well once you start high school.
If the freshmen do not believe me, they can try it out for themselves, though I do not recommend it. Just be determined to do good all of high school, it works out much better in the end. Involvement, better grades, and determination can get you far, even if you do not think so when starting high school. Once you look back your senior year, you will be thankful for all of it because you will be getting accepted and winning scholarships, take it from me, a senior who is graduating on time and with the rest of her class.