The Beginning of the End
Reflecting on my first semester, what I loved the most was playing football. Playing for Coach Mendonca taught me how to be more humble, to take my problems head on, how to have better self control, and how to push myself in order to increase my potential. The thing I regret the most is not breaking my habit of procrastination. The reality of last semester has finally hit me. After this semester, after this last couple of months, school’s over for me. It’s hit me like a truck because after I graduate I’ll be leaving to another state for about four months for basic training in Army. So the reality of this being my last semester has hit me very hard do to the fact that I’ll be on the frontlines in combat and jumping out of planes with the Airborne.
This semester I need to get the rest of my community hours, I need to do my job shadow, finish my career pathway, and get a few more credits. I am currently gaining my community hours by making stuff that is needed at the ag farm for Ms. Gregory. For my job shadow I am going to try and job shadow a police officer here in Lindsay, I need to get the paperwork needed from the office and then I’ll need to go to the police station and sign up for a ride along. I also need to finish my career pathway by finishing my coffee table in woodshop, and get a level three on it. Lastly I think I need a few more credits, at the beginning of this year I only needed 35 credits and I got 30 at the end of last semester, so I should only need 5 credits, which I’ll get by finishing just one class so I know I do not think I need to worry too much about my credits.
I applied to one college and got a letter that I was accepted to an auto engineering school, but I won’t be going because I am going to the military. I think I might want to do that for twenty years, the problem is finding out which branch I want to go into, and because of my high ASVAB scores, I have been called by the United Nations, the Army, the Marines, the Air Force, and the NAVY. My main obstacles right now is first graduating and then losing weight, but I only need to drop twenty more pounds and so far I dropped about twenty pounds already, but I know I can’t stop and that I can’t get lazy because my future relies on me losing that twenty pounds and graduating this year. And if I choose not to make the military my permanent career then I will be going to college to become a mechanical engineer with the information I will already have by being in the military.
I have not yet found a job for post-graduation because I want to focus on losing weight and then keeping it down. But I have thought about getting a part time job at the Dollar Tree here in Lindsay while still in high school. If I do end up getting a job there then I will work there until I turn eighteen and then I will be joining the military with my best friend Alex. Having someone to go through training with in the military will make it a lot easier I think because if he can do it, then I definitely can too.
This semester I need to get the rest of my community hours, I need to do my job shadow, finish my career pathway, and get a few more credits. I am currently gaining my community hours by making stuff that is needed at the ag farm for Ms. Gregory. For my job shadow I am going to try and job shadow a police officer here in Lindsay, I need to get the paperwork needed from the office and then I’ll need to go to the police station and sign up for a ride along. I also need to finish my career pathway by finishing my coffee table in woodshop, and get a level three on it. Lastly I think I need a few more credits, at the beginning of this year I only needed 35 credits and I got 30 at the end of last semester, so I should only need 5 credits, which I’ll get by finishing just one class so I know I do not think I need to worry too much about my credits.
I applied to one college and got a letter that I was accepted to an auto engineering school, but I won’t be going because I am going to the military. I think I might want to do that for twenty years, the problem is finding out which branch I want to go into, and because of my high ASVAB scores, I have been called by the United Nations, the Army, the Marines, the Air Force, and the NAVY. My main obstacles right now is first graduating and then losing weight, but I only need to drop twenty more pounds and so far I dropped about twenty pounds already, but I know I can’t stop and that I can’t get lazy because my future relies on me losing that twenty pounds and graduating this year. And if I choose not to make the military my permanent career then I will be going to college to become a mechanical engineer with the information I will already have by being in the military.
I have not yet found a job for post-graduation because I want to focus on losing weight and then keeping it down. But I have thought about getting a part time job at the Dollar Tree here in Lindsay while still in high school. If I do end up getting a job there then I will work there until I turn eighteen and then I will be joining the military with my best friend Alex. Having someone to go through training with in the military will make it a lot easier I think because if he can do it, then I definitely can too.