Boarding School Research Paper

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In my sophomore year of high school, I was given the opportunity to apply for one of the most prestigious schools in my state, the North Carolina School of Science and Math, and escape from my current school. This school is only for junior and senior students and it was my dream. It is a place for the best and brightest that North Carolina has to offer. At the school I would have the chance to both travel the physical world and delve deep into the world of science. It is a boarding school, similar to college and I thought that it would be the greatest thing that would ever happen, I would leave my annoying sister and gain new friends all in an environment resembling Hogwarts. I spent a while working on essays, bugging teachers for recommendations, …show more content…
From that moment all I saw was my future at my current school alone and away from my best-friend. The next few days I could not smile nor feel anything other than complete and utter dismay, I wasn’t good enough to get in. Everything was affected: my emotions, my attitude, my relationship with friends and family. I just shut everyone out. Then one day my parents sat me down and we talked about my rejection, they listened as I explained all of the feelings I had about not receiving a spot. I was expecting them to tell me that it was okay and that I had tried my best. But what they did tell me was a lot more important, they told me that while it was okay that I did not get in, the reason was that I didn’t try hard enough, I didn’t push myself to the absolute maximum. Right after hearing this I was angry, of course I had put all of my effort into my application, how dare they. Yet, I had waited until the last month to do my application, I had put all of my eggs into my basket before counting them. Upon this revelation that I really didn’t do my best I vowed that when it came to something that I wanted to do in the future, even if it was something uncomfortable or scary I would only do my