What I learned During The Career Unit

     In my middle school English class, we are finishing up our Career Unit, a unit about how to plan ahead to get the job you want in the future. To complete the unit, Mrs. Patalano has aksed us to blog about the mot important thing weve learned in the time of the Career Unit.
     The most important thing I learned in the career unit is that planning can really help you. I already do minor planning, like writing down my homework in my planner so I can remember what ot do, but I learned that If I want to get to get into a good university after high school, Im going to have to work hard and plan ahead. On one of our worksheets from the career unit, we had to plan our high school classes.
I was pretty dissapointed that we coulndt have a second elective in our high school years, because then I'd have to choose between band and some other class that I'm interested in, like pottery. But I was interested in the math classes, because I saw that if I got into honors math next year, it could lead to me being one or two years ahead of the other kids in high school, or even get me into college or university early. In all of the videos we watched and the times we talked with Mrs. Patalano, we were always reminded that we need to start thinking about high school and college while we were still in middle school. I agree with this, because when I don't plan on how Im getting my homework done, It turns out to be as comlpete mess. I don want to have any more "messes", so Im going to try to plan ahead from now on.

College Essay

     I had many barriers in my life that I had to cross, but I remember one above all others: my first real challenge. Like many other people I know, was bullied in my elementary school. It all started in kindergarten.
     Many people have many embarrasing events happen to them in their early childhood, like falling in a mud puddle and getting all dirty, getting toilet paper stuck to your foot and not noticing it...
One of the most embarrasing events in my life was this: I accidentally swallowed a quarter in kindergarten, just another little kid in an embarrasing situation. Most people have something embarrasing happen to them, people laugh about it, and then the memory fades away.The only reason the memory didnt fade away for me was that a little boy (I dont want to tell anyone his name) had noticed. And this little boy was the talkative type. He quickly told all of his friends, who told their friends, and thats how the story usually spread throughout the class. In first grade, the little boy and his friends started teasing me: they spread nasty rumors, they would walk up to me and say "Hey, it's the girl who swallowed a quarter!". I didn't know what to do.
    With every year the teasing got worse and worse, and I was really glum about the whole situation. But in third grade, I was a lot smarter than I had been before: I knew I had to take action if I wanted the bullies to stop.
     I went to the office and told the counselor of my problems with the bullies, and nobody was bothering me the next day. I couldn't believe how easy it had been to get rid of my big problem! My expirience with bullies in elementary school taught me a lot: It taught me that you have to be brave and take action to make your life better.