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Ateneo Essay

The document details the author's academic journey from being an average student to becoming a consistent member of the honors class. In their early years at a new school, the author struggled to maintain high grades and felt intimidated by peers. Through hard work and focusing on self-improvement rather than comparisons, their performance gradually improved until reaching the honors class. Prayer provided renewed motivation to study hard and stop unhealthy comparisons, allowing the author to achieve academic success and gain confidence in their abilities.

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Ateneo Essay

The document details the author's academic journey from being an average student to becoming a consistent member of the honors class. In their early years at a new school, the author struggled to maintain high grades and felt intimidated by peers. Through hard work and focusing on self-improvement rather than comparisons, their performance gradually improved until reaching the honors class. Prayer provided renewed motivation to study hard and stop unhealthy comparisons, allowing the author to achieve academic success and gain confidence in their abilities.

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“You don't need to be better than anyone else. You just need to be better than you used to be.”.

This was a quote by Wayne Dyer which would later be something I’ll realize in life.

When I first entered Colegio San Agustin-Makati as a grade seven student, I wasn’t one of the
smartest in the batch. Despite being an honor student in my previous school, I would only get
averages as high as 89 and as low as 87. I was not even nominated for honors on graduation day.
From being one of the best performing students in my previous school to becoming an average
student who was far from entering the honor’s class.

If there is one thing my friends know about me, it’s that I never stop improving myself. I didn’t look
back at the grades I got from my first year too much. I was focused on how I’ll improve. A goal I have
in mind is to be one of the top students in the batch and that would mean that I’ll have to be on the
same level as those in the honors’ class.

My second year in CSA was a very challenging one for me. I was placed in a disorganized section.
There were many freeloaders in my class. Though that didn’t stop me from reaching my goal which
was to be able to enter the honor’s class. I would study really hard for all my tests. In group works, I
would step up as a leader and do majority of the tasks. I was willing to go that far to get the grades.
With all that, I was able to get an average as high as 91. It wasn’t high compared to those in the
honor’s class but I was improving.

It was the next year when I realized that my hard work then, paid off. I was finally placed in the
second honors’ class in Grade 9. I was happy until I realized that it was a struggle for me to keep up
with my classmates. Everyone was performing well in recitations, quizzes and exams. While I was still
doing my best to keep up with them, I started questioning myself whether I’m actually smart in
academics. In Grade 10, I was close to being removed from the honors’ class but the school
eventually revised the class lists so I ended up staying in the honor’s class. I continued to have the
same problem. I would be at the bottom in the class in terms of grades. I was never in the top 10 nor
the top 20. I was always at the bottom. Eventually I started to give up on ever becoming top ten in
my class. It made me realize that it was unhealthy to motivate myself through comparing myself to
others. What was once what gave me motivation, now has given me discouragement.

This got worse last year when I got into the honors’ class for the STEM strand. Almost every one of
my classmates are from the first honors’ class from last year which contains the top forty students of
the batch. I got very intimidated by them. A lot of them are also very active in extra-curricular
activities like school organizations. At the time, I wasn’t a part of any organization because I never
tried to audition. I would always assume that I’ll probably never get in because I wasn’t talented
enough to get in any. It was the worse time I ever had in high school as I faced a lot of issues with
myself such as my low self-esteem.

All these happened until one day I decided to go to the chapel. I just stayed there and prayed to God
that things will get better. After that, things got better from there slowly. I started smiling more even
in days that seemed heavy. I was more motivated to study hard to become one of the top in class. In
doing projects, I would rarely do things last minute. I stopped comparing myself to my other
classmates because it was unhealthy for me. I was back to my former self, a person who never stops
improving. I would then gain two gold eagle certificates, which are certificates given to students who
achieved a general average of 92 and above from both of my semester with all my grades higher
than 90.
Currently, I stand as a member of the honor’s class for four straight years. I’m still performing well in
my academics. Months ago, I auditioned for La Musica Es Vida, an organization for singers and
instrumentalists, and I was able to get in the organization. In less than a month, I’ll be taking
entrance exams for the universities I want to enter such as Ateneo De Manila University. I plan to
take BS Biology or BS Chemistry in these universities. I feel that if it wasn’t for that time I spent in the
chapel, things would still continue to go hell bound. But because of Him, I continue to rise up into
the heavens. For as long as I live, I’ll continue to improve to the best person I could be.

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