Holen Yee, Period 7, 1/20/22

 Holen Yee, Period 7, 1/20/22

Modern Mythology 2022

Goal Setting & Growth

• At this current point in time, what specific goal(s) do you have for yourself? Why?

• How do you demonstrate resilience towards achieving this goal? (or these goals?)

• How does the world around you affect your perception of this goal? (or these goals?)

    Now that I am mostly done with college applications and only have to wait for results, my goals mostly revolve around school. My major goal at this point in time is to maintain all my grades at A or above. The reason for this goal is because I heard that colleges have the power to revoke their offer of admission based on senior grades, since they accept you based on the assumption that you will maintain something close to the level of achievement that got you accepted. So, even though my applications are over and I don’t have to feel as stressed about deadlines, I still have to maintain an appropriate level of tension and continue putting in effort. 

    I am steadily working at achieving this goal by continuing to do homework, putting in effort when working on big projects that have a large impact, and studying for tests and quizzes. While colleges don’t revoke acceptance very often and won’t do it because of a slight drop in grades, I think it is still a good idea to make sure that nothing slips, since small things build up into large issues, which might be hard to reverse once they are done. In my opinion, it is more prudent to prevent any issues before they pop up, so if any mistakes are made, they are not as bad as they could be.

    My goal is very heavily influenced by the environment around me. Everyone around me doesn’t consider not going to college as an option. After all, you have to go to a good school to go to a good college to get a good education to get a good job. It would be a waste of previous effort to not go to college. So, my biggest fear at this point is the possibility of colleges not accepting me for reasons that I could have prevented. This goal is a step towards preventing that fear from coming true.