High School Senior: Determination

DETERMINATION 

Alex Swider, St. Augustine High School, San Diego CA. College Choice = Undecided

The biggest fears: Finding friends and failure

The excitements: College life and individuality

I explained..college life can be intimidating and scary because mom and dad are no longer there to help a new first year coup with being on his or her own. The world can be a scary place, but that scary image can be changed when a first year looks at his goals and strides to achieve them over his time in college. Every first year is excited about the parties and the personal freedom of individuality, but the fears are what have bigger weight on this first years shoulders. It is up to this first year to stay determined and push through even the worst of times. Failure is the worst fear for first years. They want to make a good impact on their GPA right from the start, but the fear of failing can bring this first year down. Determination can help this first year study harder and more efficiently. Secondly, first years can become depressed and feel alone when they have trouble finding a group of people to hang with. Again it's determination that can help because there will always be others who like the same things. All the tasks a first year takes on is going to be difficult for them and that is why they must push forward and finish. The ideal of determination is an amazing quality that can help anyone succeed.

A good example is from the Greek mythology of Sisyphus. This man was cast to his own personal hell, just like a first year suffering from their first mid-term, where he must roll a massive boulder up a mountain and if he can get it to the top he will be set free from his hell. The catch is that whenever he gets close to finishing the boulder becomes extremely heavy to a point where he cannot hold it in place any longer and it rolls all the way down the mountain. Sisyphus must walk down the mountain and continue to try and achieve his goal of freedom. He could give up at any time. He could quit and not have to roll the boulder and just live with his consequence of being in hell, but he does not. Sisyphus shows extreme determination to finish and tries over and over to get this boulder to the summit. He knows there might be no chance for him to succeed he still pushes on because he believes and he is determined.

Sisyphus might not be the stereotype leader, but he plays a good example of a leader and how one should work for what was they believe and want. Just as a first year must keep a steady look on his studies and social life. A leader can never give up, because if his followers, the people who look up to him, see him quit, then they are bound to quit just like him. Leaders are role models; therefore determination is a necessity.

This is another example of determination that helps keep people like soon to be first years who have to face these fears pushing forward. The ideal quality of a successful person. Let this video show anyone and especially first years that college does come with it's difficulties and it is up to us to push through and succeed.

True, Real, Determination...