I’ve always found myself thinking of my future, whether it be my future car, my future career, my future family, etc. In my future I want to be successful, and happy, but how do I get there? I have certain goals I want to come to fruition, but how do I make them happen? There’s a certain level I want to reach in my life, but how do I reach that height? It’s honestly a simple answer, Decisions. Not only any decisions, the correct decisions. However in my life I have had many instances where I don’t make the right decisions and it puts me in a place where I’m not at peace with myself. I understand then that I need to make a change. In order to make that change, you guessed it, I need to make new decisions. I know it can be tough for many to choose and understand what they must do. Take my first experience for example. During my final year in middle school, I had to decide on what high school I wanted to go to in order to receive a good education. There were only two options for me. On one hand it was a school that seemed like an easy ride. All of my friends were choosing to go to that school. I was certain that’s also where I wanted to go. However, I remembered the goal I had set for myself. I wanted to be an architect and that one school didn’t have the program I was looking for. This decision became very difficult for me. I had to quickly decide as deadlines were approaching. I began to think of my future and what I needed to do in order to achieve the goal I had set for myself. At the end, it was a tough decision but I ended up choosing the school where none of my friends went, but had the architecture program I wanted to attend. Overall it’s a decision I don’t regret as I was able to make friends there and have a great high school experience. At times making decisions can be difficult. There will be times when you have to make a decision you don’t like but you know you must make. Nevertheless, believe me when I tell you  it will ultimately benefit you in your future. Not only have I had to make tough decisions, but I have also made the wrong decisions in my education as well. During my senior year I began to procrastinate a lot. Senioritis began to kick in. My GPA was great and I had already earned all my credits in order to graduate. I thought that my senior year would be an easy ride. I especially began to slack in my Calculus class. There were times where I would hand in work late. There were also times where I didn’t understand what was being taught and I didn’t study to try and understand. This resulted in my test scores coming out very low. I also did not participate a lot and that is also very important towards your grade. All these were definitely the wrong decisions that could have ultimately affected my GPA or even have had colleges not interested in me. I knew I needed to change my mindset and as I mentioned before, the way to do this is by making new better decisions. For starters, I began participating in my calculus class a lot more. My participation consisted of me answering questions to demonstrate my understanding to the teacher, and also asking questions when I didn’t understand something the teacher was going over. Studying also became important to me as I knew I needed my test grades to go up, allowing my average and GPA to go up and maintain a steady grade. This is a great example of how you can turn a wrong decision into a beneficial correct decision. Speaking of my senior year, it was a very stressful final year in high school. As the year began I needed to start applications for colleges and financial aid. I began to leave all my applications for the last minute. This had to do with my procrastination but also a fear of having to worry about completing and submitting applications. I would look at the applications and would be intimidated by them and would decide to save them for another day. The next day would come and I would continue to leave it for the following day. This is something I didn’t want to worry about, even though I should have worried about them. I kind of felt alone in the process of doing all my applications. The stress began to weigh down on me and it kind of affected my mental health, but not in an extreme way. However, I take responsibility for this in the way that there were always resources available just that I didn’t use them. There were college advisors but I didn’t like asking questions. I didn’t like the idea of losing my break time to go and ask for assistance. I also felt it would take a long time to resolve any questions I had. Deadlines for applications and financial aid began to get closer and closer and I began to get more and more stressed. I knew I needed to get everything done so I attended an after school session where all students that went got help with whatever they were having trouble with. I was able to finish a few applications and had less things to do. When I wouldn’t understand something I would go to the college office anytime I was free and ask for help. Deciding to ask for help was very beneficial as I started to understand more and do more things on time. Instead of addressing a problem at a later date, I would try and fix it on the same day. One of my most recent decisions was to attend City Tech. This was a correct decision from the beginning as I’m really enjoying being a City Tech student so far, despite attending from home. I have learned so much already and am appreciative of all the knowledge city tech has provided me with so far.