My Academic Struggles, Accomplishments, and Aspirations

     The academic life of a student is not as simple as one would think. Students face their own flaws and the difficulty of overcoming obstacles to reach their goals. As a student, I have a continuing battle with my struggles. Mine are hardly any different than any other student's struggles, but they still exist. Though these setbacks are difficult to face, I can push through them and achieve the aspirations I have set for myself.

     My career as a student has been filled with struggle to maintain my success. One of the biggest struggles that I face is my lack of motivations to begin working on an assignment. Once I begin on the paper, I have no problem finishing it. All I need is the push to begin the work. Another problem I combat is that during my class time I have trouble staying focused. I have a tendency to stare off into the distance, immersing myself in my imagination rather than the reality at hand. Finally, my last struggle is staying organized and remembering all of the assignments given to me. It is a terrible habit of mine to receive a worksheet or instructions and to immediately forget that the work existed. Although I have flaws in the assignments and schoolwork of my academic career, my accomplishments still shine though to show my hard work as a student.

     In the time I have been a student, I have accomplished more than I would have imagined. I have never received anything less than merit roll on a report card, and I work hard to keep that statement true. I have a natural instinctive need to try my hardest and get the best possible grade that I can. My behavioral record is clean as I try my best to uphold the rules the high school has established. I know the line between having fun and being disrespectful towards another student or teacher. I am also accomplished in the way that, despite my forgetfulness, I turn in nearly all of my schoolwork. I have a missing assignment only a few times per grading period. With all of my accomplishments I hope to achieve the goals I set for myself in the future.

     To achieve my long term goals, I must first succeed in following through with shorter term goals. To finish high school with flying colors, I must continue to receive the grades that I determine to be up to par. I may even need to improve myself, and raising the bar would be the easily said but difficult to do solution. To receive better grades I can look at my struggles as a student and work to improve them one at a time. One way to improve my grades, and another one of my academic aspirations, is to improve my study habits. Studying harder means that my understanding of the material given to me would be more thorough and in depth, which would lead to improved test scores and academic success. Another smaller aspiration that would contribute into accomplishing my first aspiration would be to procrastinate less. I consistently put off my work until I fall into a near panic over the blank sheet of paper in front of me. I never seem to have the drive to finally begin the first sentence of the assignment, and I hope to improve that by setting aside special time dedicated to my schooling while I am at home. Through my aspirations I will continue to improve as a student and work to my larger aspirations.
   
     I have plans set in place to deal with my flaws as a student, and with the flaws tamed I can go on to reach my academic goals and add to my academic accomplishments. I can accomplish what I wish to, and I will work to improve myself as a student to achieve more. My struggles do not keep me from what I want. There is an entire world of students, and I compete in it. I will push myself and I will compete to be one of the best students the world has to offer so that I may reach my aspirations.

Cyber Bullying

All our lives we have heard about and seen bullying, but now there are new ways to torment someone unjustly. Now bullies can attack a victim without even saying it to their face. They can hide behind a computer screen, a mask, without the usual consequences of bullying someone face to face. These bullies harrass others because they were once hurt by others. They hated the feeling, but when they attack another they do not consider the pain that the other person is feeling. They only think of how it feels to assert oneself as better than another. It is easier to bully someone over the internet than to do it in person because you cannot see the emotions the victim is expressing and cannot feel a connection to them. When one is bullying another they want to avoid feeling the pain of the victim at all costs, so distancing oneself makes it easier to hurt them. If I were to witness bullying taking place, I would step in and give a short, curt, definite comment on how I feel about the situation, telling the one bullying to stop such actions. I have found that the quicker and more to the point you keep the interaction, the quicker it is to end the bullying. You allow for no compromise and no way for the bully to attack you for showing weakness. Bullies are only human and if you see them as such it is easier to deal with them. They feel just as we do, and it is not hard to make them regret their actions. Although this does not excuse their actions, it can help undo a portion of the damage they have caused and possibly even prevent future bullying from that person once they have been singled out. Bullying is unacceptable, and will not be stood for in today's world. Stand up for someone if they are a victim of bullying and do not let it continue.

What Belongs to You

Nothing gives the right to people to claim things that do not belong to them. They think that taking what does not belong to them is justified by trying to do good with what they take, or by the idea that the previous owner was not using the property to it's full potential. For example, the United Nations gave land to the jews around world war two that belonged to the palestinianians first. This was wrong because the UN tried to give away land that was not theirs. A more simple example would be a juice box. If one had a juice box that they did not intend to drink right away, that means that just because someone else would drink it right away does not mean that they have a right to take the juice box. It may be justified in that one person's mind, but it is not right. Taking property from another person is not right, and I believe this also holds true for taking taken property. If property has been in another's hands for so long, it eventually just becomes part of their life. For example, houses been torn down in africa for being built on the property of another. Since these resisents had been there for so long, the land became theirs. No action had previosly occured to take back this land, so the ownership changed. Tearing down these homes was wrong. The residents had lived there for all those years, and should not have been uprooted like that. Although people do not have the right to take what is not theirs, it is just as wrong to take what was part of one's life away if it did not originally belong to them.