When most people have to talk about when they were at their best, many people pick times that they were the best at something or won a big award. For me, it isn't that for me. There were many times that I felt like I was at my best by I was not necessarily at the top. However, there is one event that sticks out the most in my mind that I did happen to be at the top. As cheesy as this sounds, the time I was at my best was graduation. I had just complete thirteen years of school where I worked as hard as I could to get sufficient grades. I had spent countless hours during my high school years alone to make sure I got that A on a test the next day. All of that hard work paid off as I was able to give my graduation speech as the class valedictorian. I had managed to graduate with a 4.00 GPA.
My senior year had been my hardest year. I only had school half of a day because of my intern the second half of the day. My classes in the morning were AP and college classes. Those classes brought so much stress to my life as I tried to balance my extra-curricular activities with my school work. There were many times that I didn’t think I was going to be able to keep my straight A’s but after a lot of hard work I was able to keep it. Being the first person in my family to be able to graduate with a 4.00 GPA, I felt extremely proud and happy when I stood up at the podium during graduation to give my speech. I had completed my biggest goal I had ever had and the result of that was handed to me a few minutes later in the form of my high school diploma. I had accomplished so much in my school years that I had gained the confidence that I need now in college to face any other difficulties that come my way.
While I was at the top of my class, I didn’t have to be to feel like I was at my best that day. I had just completed thirteen years of hard work. I had completed my goal and it felt great making it as far as I did. I had fought through many challenges along the way and had grown as an individual. I had just successfully completed one stage of my life and was headed towards the next stage. That next stage was college.
