As a student in school, and athlete in sports, many valuable experiences have crossed my path. Most likely the most valuable experience i have ever gone through is simply coming to school everyday while working my hardest. For the past five years in school, i have achieved high honor roll in every one of my classes. Not only this but i have been selected for advanced mathematics, history, and english. these advanced classes have strengthened my abilities, and are preparing me for my future education in college. As a student i strive to achieve many goals including finishing in the top ten in my class, and excelling in every course i select until i graduate.
Aside from achieving within the classroom, i also strive to achieve on the field, this year, i was selected as team captain for Lacrosse as well as Soccer, and was also recognized as a team leader in basketball. I never feel as though i need to be the best on the team, as long as i can help my team strive as a unit, i am satisfied with the job i am accomplishing. Seeing a team work well, motivates me to work harder everyday i come to practice. Reasons such as this are just a couple examples of why i have always made a connection with sports. Seeing my friends and teammates having fun is just as amazing as winning in my opinion.
While sports and school have always interested me, extracurricular activities are often a great opportunity to learn new things. I have played the cello for 8 years now, and i often find a musical instrument can be a great outlet for stress and anger. When i am put in a bad situation, music is always there for me, i can alway reach for my cello, in times of doubt. As a musician, potentially my biggest challenge/reflection was my first audition, i remember practicing for weeks in order to play a piece i loved the sound of. I played everyday i came home, and it was an incredible experience because i was able to achieve something i put a serous amount of effort into, over a long period of time. I arrived at the audition and played in-front of a large panel of judges, who at the time looked rather threatening. I remembered the time i put into the piece, and played under a rather large amount of pressure. However i later received my score, and i had finished one point shy of a perfect score, at the time i was extremely relieved, and realized that with work, come excellence. This was a great example of that.
As a child in a very busy family, i understand that with school, and sports, and cello, comes responsibility, i always attempt to manage my free time wisely, and homework is always a first priority. There have been occasions where my homework was not submitted on time, and for a short period of time, my grades reflected it. However, i confronted my teacher, asked him what i needed to do to fix my grade, and thankfully he was very helpful, we discussed the situation, and we came to a conclusion, i put in the extra time, and received a better grade in the class, it is little experiences like this that i can reflect on and understand that these are what makes someone a better person overall.
