Personal Statement
I would describe myself as a creative and adventurous person. I am a competitive tennis player and I enjoy playing sports but at the same time I have always felt that I have a creative side to me. I enjoy playing a watching sports and I would say that I am quite a sporty person as well. I have had many experiences and encounters that have shaped the person I am today. I am very fortunate to have the life that I have, living in a nice house with a roof over my head and food to eat, a family that loves and cares for me, a wonderful school and of course my close friendships. This teaches me to always be grateful for the life that I am able to have. This year has been a very interesting year for me, it was my first year in high school and I have had many positive and negative experiences.
Some goals that I have set for myself for the upcoming year are: 1) Improve as a young human being, develop new and close relationships (Making new friends, getting closer with some of my current friends). 2) Surround myself with the right people and work on finding more genuine happiness. 3) Improving academically, getting consistent 5’s and 6’s (no 3’s and 4’s). Making sure I’m organised with all my classes and that I am keeping up with all my subjects. 4) Taking my level of tennis to a higher place, training harder and playing in more tournaments and matches.
Over the past year I have had many ups and downs in my first year in highschool and I’ve had many challenges that I have overcome. My experiences this year have helped shape the person I am today and have also helped me decide on my goals in this upcoming year. Within the past year I have been able to identify my strengths and weaknesses and because of my experiances this year that has helped me come up with goals for the upcoming year.
In my second year of high school I really want to improve as a person overall and focus on several different goals. I want to make myself more happy and comfortable with life, I want to improve in school and get better grades, I want to meet new people and develop new relationships and I also want to improve on my tennis. In the first half of my school year I didn’t end up getting such good grades, they definitely went horrible but both my parents and I were slightly disappointed. That motivated me to work harder in school and do better in the second half of the year academically. This is why next year I want to improve on my grades academically and have overall better grades than I did this year. I want to avoid getting 4s and try to get more 6’s. Those numbers are better than what I have been getting this year. I want to develop new relationships with different people and make new friends next year because I didn’t open up to as many people as I wanted to this year. I still made a few new friends but next year I want to be more social and make new friendships. And for my last goal I had a pretty good year for my tennis but I still want to see myself getting better results and that motivates me to work harder in the upcoming year and to do better in my tournaments.
My plans for the upcoming year on how I’m going to achieve these goals are to put more time and effort into my goals. This counts for all of my goals that I have set for myself, if I want to get closer to those goals and if I want to achieve those goals I have to put more time and effort into working towards my goals. For my first two goals I need to be more confident in myself and use my communication skills more actively. I want to start talking to more people and making more friends. This means that I have to reach out to more people and be more active communication wise. In this upcoming year I want to treat everyone with kindness and respect and work on improving as a person and being more happy. I need to take more time to do the things that I love and to focus more on my personal happiness and to do things that make me happy. This means I will have to balance my time playing tennis and studying for school so that I can also find some time for myself every once in a while. In this upcoming year I have to dedicate more time towards my academics and school work. If I want to be getting better grades academically this means that I will have to spend extra time revising and making sure to ask questions in class. Finally for my tennis, If I want to be achieving my goals I have to keep training hard. I have to work on my organization skills so that I can balance my school work, social life and tennis. If I want to see better results in my tournaments I have to train hard over the summer and become more fit.
Overall I would say I had a challenging year but I am happy that I was able to overcome many obstacles and finish the year strong. I struggled academically in some subjects throughout the year but I am very happy with my provement in those subjects and my improvement in my grades. I definitely did not get such bad grades but at the same time I definitely did not get such good grades. This motivates me to want to do better in this new upcoming year and to study harder so that I can get better grades. In conclusion I would like to say that my first year of high school was pretty successful but it also could have been better academically. I am proud of myself for overcoming all of the difficult obstacles I had to face and this gives me confidence for any new obstacles that I have to face in my high school years. Hopefully in this upcoming year I will have a better year academically and I will be able to achieve all of the goals that I have set for myself. Thank you!! :))
Zack BURACK – 9 LTW