Personal Essay Example: Freshman Year Goals

Goals are an essential part of life. Why you may ask? Having goals paves the way to your future and life’s plan. Freshman year is the beginning of your career path. These grades shape what college your going to, what jobs you may want, and very importantly how your growing up to be a young adult. Picking your own goals may seem easy.. But completeing them is the real battle. As a freshman in August it is time to lay down my goals for this year! My top three goals are turning in all my assignments, build good study habits, and manage my mental health.

One of my academic goals would be to have slim to none late and missing assignments. This goal is fundamental to me, once work starts piling up it is very hard to pick back up. I struggle with getting in my own head about being perfect, like most people. This year i’m trying to learn that my best is enough! Don’t get me wrong grades are very important.. but trying your hardest and maybe still getting a C is okay! I have always struggled with seeing a C or D on one assignment and beating myself up about it, but instead should see it as help on what to ask a teacher for extra help in or what to study with more. One strategy i’m going to use is my planner. I think this with help tremendously with planning a space for each assignment so I don’t get overwhelmed in each class. Another strategy is to ask for help when stuck. A big part in doing assignments is knowing what the assignment is on duh! In past years i have been scared to ask questions on assignments and that leads to misinformation and me not doing the best of my abilities... But this year im going to speak up so i don’t get overwhelmed and just not do the assignment. Speaking up will not only help me complete the assignment it will help me understand it more when i have questions. This year I am going to work hard and turn my assignments in on time.

Another academic goal would be to build good study habits. In high school and as we get older and attend college studying is a vidal point to doing the best you can. Studying is not about rushing through everything and saying welp i know it. Studying is even if you do know it slowly double checking to make sure everything is clear. Studying can sometimes be fun if you let it! You can do it with a friend or family member. Studying is very important in high school and for future finals and exams. If you don’t study it could add stress and do more harm than good. I will give my self enough time to study and not procrastinate. This goal is very vidal to pass freshman year. A way i will hold myself accountable is telling friends and family to call me out if im not doing the studying when i planned. Also a way i can hold myself accountable is time management i will set alarms for each subject and spend an equal amount of time studying what i need to. This will help me not get distracted and overwhelmed about each test. I haven’t always been the best studier i’ll be the first to admit but for freshman year i will improve my study habits.

A personal goal of mine is to improve my mental health. In life mental health is very important to your physical health, and if your not physically healthy it is hard to get things done. Even the littlest of tasks. In 2021 I have started to work on improving my mental health already but by the end of freshman year i want it to be little to no problem to get little task done. I understand the importance of maintaining it to get things done. One plan i have to manage my mental health on top of school is going to bed early and getting into a routine of it. Sleeping plays a very big part in mental health and the way you act and feel. In the day in school if you are overtired that could lead to missing points in the class, having a difficult time focusing, etc. A way i will improve my mental health and attitude towards school is giving myself time to my self but also having enough time for work. A way i plan on doing this is by Time managing I have mentioned time managing a few times in this essay because it is such a vital point of getting things done especially goals. I feel time managing and not being too hard on myself and understanding one human cannot be perfect. There are many different strategies to keep your mental health in shape but I feel the most important is not bottling up your feelings. I will not bottle up my feelings and I will hold myself accountable if I start to feel like I am because if we don't hold ourselves accountable if we are not reaching our goals we will never make the improvements to reach them. I will not give up on this goal. I will work everyday to reach the finally goal of maintaining my mental health. I feel if every student understood the importance of maintaining a good mental state it would help them with their grades tremendously and that is why this is one of my personal goals.

As a freshman setting goals is very important. It is the start of your college career these grades will form how colleges see you and your behavior will show how those respect you. Being the best you can be is enough of course but not pushing yourself will get you no where. You will constantly make goals in your life but high school goals and college goals help shape the way your carrer will go. This may all seem very Intimidating.. But all of us freshman are in it together and together we can hold each other accountable about our goals. We can work hand and hand to complete them and move on to our next goals. Whether its academic wise or personal wise. Together these goals might not seem as hard. These three goals are all very important in there own ways. Turning in assignments will help me stay on track and help me maintain high grades. Building good study habits will help me really learn about the subject the teacher is talking about so i don’t forget it. It will also help me for college because studying is a very vidal thing in college and starting now will make the transition more easy in the future. Lastly maintaining a good mental state. This will not only help in highschool but it will help in life. Not just students need to mantain it. Teachers need to, other lines of work need to as well. All of these goals are special in there own way but all work together in a way and you could use some of the same strategys for success on each. This essay is all about my goals. These goals will have a domino effect. In which i mean when i succeed at one goal the ripple of the dominos fall. And each one of the dominos represent a school assignment or a life obstacle i will tackle just because i worked and earned my goal. With these goals in place i will succeed in not only your class but in every class i will ever take in life. I am very confident in the fact that i will hold myself accountable and get my goals complete. In the next few months i will use the strategies i stated in each paragraph to complete my three freshman year goals. The strategies i pick will make my goals reasonable to reach and not overwhelming. Once i complete these goals i will feel very proud and i will for sure tell you when i do! I’m ready for the challenge of completing them this year and i cannot wait to look back on this essay and see how far i have come in your class and in life also with my goals of course! I feel these three goals of turning in on my assignments, building good study habits oh, and maintaining my mental health will be the key to success in high school.