I, Samantha Alanis, am raised under a household where much is expected. My parents are not constantly asking about my grades, when I have tests coming up, or anything similar. My parents have taught both my older brother and I to become independent human beings. At a very young age I was indeed bothered by the delegation of tasks that was given to me, but now I am thankful for such things. I have learned that life is not nearly as easy as it’s shown in movies. Life is hard, life is complicated, but you have to keep moving forward.
With this thought in mind, comes the thought of my senior year. A year where I am sure life will get very complicated. However, I look forward to it all. Even the bad times. I know those moments will only teach me lessons I’ll need for the future and it’s better to go through it now, than much later. I know there will be nights with no sleep, and that is never any fun but hopefully this year I can start doing my assignments much before they’re due. As of where I am to apply to college, I am not entirely sure. I look forward to talking to various teachers to hear what advice they have to give me. I’m thinking about getting my associates in nursing (much cheaper), start working, and simply get my bachelors while I am already working since it will be required starting 2020 anyways. If that doesn’t work though UNC, NCCU, and UNCG all sound like good choices to me.
I’d have to say some of my best aspects include determination, dependableness, and intelligence. I have both of my parents to thank for the several wonderful aspects they helped me acquire throughout my young life. My dad used to work a lot and my mom didn’t know English very well when I was born but when I began school they made sure I became educated. That has continued throughout my years in school, thankfully, and that’s because of them. My determination to complete a task or a goal I have in mind has always been something that people will comment to me about. If there is something that has to be done, I need to finish it and I need to finish it well. This also intertwines with dependableness I believe because especially in group-work if a task is to be done, my group members can count on me to do it. That is the one case where I do not procrastinate, although I do on my own assignments. I wish I wouldn’t but I always have, and I do wish I could stop. On the bright side I do finish my work, just with a little more unnecessary stress.
If there were no limits I would travel and travel and travel. I love visiting new places and really appreciating how different yet how beautiful every place is. I love helping people, which is why I want to become a nurse, so I believe traveling where the need is greater is how I’d want to help this world. I don’t propose curing everything in society but at least I can provide comfort each and every person desires. I would want to go to Spain to get lost. The views and the food simply look amazing. Since I speak Spanish I wouldn’t mind getting lost, but I would love to just walk and explore everything there is.
I typically don’t read too much, but last year in APUSH we read “Destiny of the Republic” about James Garfield and I can say it did have a major influence on me. With how advanced technology is nowadays it’s so easy to forget what people had to go through to get us where we’re at today. Every once in a while it’s good to stop and appreciate everything we have. People lost their lives in order for us to live how we do, and the least we can do is show our appreciation. I would have to say I am most passionate about not taking things for granted. Both my parents grew up in poverty and they made a life together from the bottom. They always took advantage of what they could and with that they were able to get where they are today. Today they are in a more than a happy place not only economically but in every other way as well, and I too hope to live that way.
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