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Jeff Sagario

Period 2

5/04/06

 

        &= nbsp;   “Life is a chess game, a= nd every move counts.”

- San Quinn

 

        &= nbsp;   Growing up I always heard my family talk about college. Everyone in my family has completed high school but nobody has graduated from college. My parents wer= e the only two out of the entire family that even attempted to go to college, but neither of them finished the four years of college. Everyone told me that I should attend a university because it would be a great accomplishment, not = only for me, but for the entire family. Over the years, all of their words have stuck to me and I have set a goal for myself. I will go to college and foll= ow through all the way so I can graduate and make everybody including myself proud.

        &= nbsp;   I have overcome many obstacles in my life, especially my parents’ divor= ce and remarriage. They got divorced when I was about nine years old, and that= was tough to get through. I was forced to stay with my mom for three years and I spent the last two years since the divorce with my dad. Those were the best years of my life. My parents remarried when I turned fourteen so my father = and I had to move to San Francisco to live with my mom. I had to change high schools in different cities, and that was extremely hard. I lived in Sacram= ento all of my life so it was challenging to adjust to the new city, but after being here for two years, I have gotten used to it. I am even starting to like staying in the Bay Area. Being in the Bay Area for so long, seeing how everybody is and what everything is like, I have been influenced= to go to a college here so I can feel at home.

        &= nbsp;   A big success for me is staying in school. There were many times when I wante= d to drop out because of social problems and family business, but I kept myself going. Also a few of my friends motivated me to go to school everyday and n= ow I go almost all the time. Even though my grades are not as high as I would li= ke them to be, my attendance has improved drastically. Now I am looking forwar= d to graduating next year in 2006 and moving on to college. I can hardly wait un= til I hear my name called on the stage and I can walk up and get my diploma. The ultimate success would be graduating on time and getting accepted to a coll= ege that I would enjoy going to. That would be the biggest success in high school for me.

        &= nbsp;   My education is great. I take advantage of it off and on. From junior high sch= ool to high school, I changed quite a bit. In middle school I never attended, s= o I barely passed. Then, when I went to high school in Sacramento, I had a great learning experience. My teachers were cool and I always received at least a= 3.0 on every report card. Now that I am at Mission High School in San Francisco= , I am getting lazy and I hardly maintain good grades. But that is changing in = the second semester of my junior year. I realized that my education at school is extremely important and that I need to take advantage of it, because, previously, I did not take school seriously and that is why I received a low GPA last marking period. Now I am taking a night course in physics so I can= get extra credits for science and I hope that I will have the proper credits and GPA to get into a college of my choice.

        &= nbsp;   My dream is to work in a recording studio with major artists from the B= ay Area or any other musicians around the United States after I complete four years of college. I would love to make instrumentals with or for them. I wa= nt to produce music for a living and work with my idols in the studio. I have = had some experience with a producer already, but I want to be working and make = some big moves with the artists. It would be a dream come true to see my name in= the credits of an artist’s album. My career would be even bigger if my be= at got the artist some radio play. That would be my ultimate goal besides graduating from college. I cannot wait until that day. I am already saving = up money for equipment, so that I can start as soon as possible. Hopefully everything will work out, and if it does not, I could say that I at least t= ried to achieve one of my goals.