Category: Writing Task Resilience or Mentor Quote

Mentor Quotation:

“If you choose to do something, you will become better, but if you choose to do nothing, you will remain the same. You have to remember that everything you do matters,” said Mr. Farinas, my programming teacher. He …

“Anthony you’re smart but if you don’t control your emotions what you have to say will not matter.”

My middle school history teacher said this to me after I had heated argument with someone in my class resulting in me …

For me it is hard to identify one challenge that I’ve faced in school, because the whole journey has felt like one huge challenge for me. One overlapping challenge that I’ve faced is self-doubt. For most of my education I …

A challenge I was facing in school would probably be anxiety and failing. This struggle was about three years ago when covid was everywhere around the world. When school shut down and online classes started I had anxiety from that. …

“I wish you would apply yourself more. Not just in my class, but in everything. You are capable of doing great things.”

I had been called an underachiever by my teachers in the past, but it had never meant anything. …

“Lisa, you are a very good student. You can study anything–even if you don’t like it.”

I will always remember these words spoken to me by my father.  We were sitting at the dining room table. Just my dad and …

Resilience:

The time I dropped out of medical school was one of the lowest moment in my life.  It had happened before.  So I felt like I was in a familiar place.  Something kept telling me I did not belong …