Okay, so now that the school year is underway, I’m sure that a few of you have thought about what you want to accomplish this year. Looking at my life, I’ve started to set goals for myself as I believe all of you should do. What I want to know is this:
The key to finding out what your goals should be is to think about what you want out of your life. Once you do that, ideas should come pouring out. Afterwards, it’s all a matter of figuring out how you’ll achieve what you want and getting to work!
- Do you have any goals?
- Why are they important to you?
- Are these goals that you want to complete in one month? One year? Five years? Are your goals something that you want to continue to work on forever? (Eating healthy, helping others, etc.)
The key to finding out what your goals should be is to think about what you want out of your life. Once you do that, ideas should come pouring out. Afterwards, it’s all a matter of figuring out how you’ll achieve what you want and getting to work!
Caterina Golner
Period 2 (Class of 2011) :)
I start every school year with a goal (or two) of something new I want to try to incorporate. This year, one goal is to have my students participate in more writing contests. The extra credit they will earn in my class is no match for the value of practice, guided feedback (from me), and great prizes. I hope some of you are motivated to try!
ReplyDeleteI'm interested in some of your goals. What do you all see in your futures?
I have a few goals. One of my big goals is to always get good grades because I've always wanted to go to Princeton for college. It's important to me to get good grades because not only will you get into good colleges, but you feel good about yourself.
ReplyDeleteVictoria Novie
LA1
BTW - Cat, I like your goal of reading the entire list on teanreads.com. I checked out the website. :)
ReplyDelete@Tori, besides earning good grades, do you have any other goals?
Okay, so, Victoria, you mentioned that you wanted to get into Princeton. What are you going to work on so that you can achieve that?
ReplyDeleteLike every student in the world, I always want to get all "A's" in school (especially in Geometry). I want to go to a school like Harvard for college and that takes a LOT of work and exceptionally good grades. Also, I am a dancer so another goal of mine would be to improve my dancing and along with that my flexibility, stamina, and gracefulness. My last goal, though not in relation to school, is to successfully watch all seven (or eight) harry potter movies without stopping. I have yet to accomplish that goal; I always fall asleep in the end around the fifth movie. :)
ReplyDeleteRebecca N.
Period 1
My goal this year is for my travel hockey team to win
ReplyDeleteSAHOF (State Championship). I will practice hard, on and off the ice. I will get into better shape and always try my hardest when I am playing in a game in order to help achieve this goal.
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Katrina Ragbeer
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My goal this year is to simply pass with straight A's. Last year, the task was easy, but this year all of my classes are harder and more challenging, so I have to apply myself a lot more than normal. In order to achieve this, I'm going to study more and stop procrastinating (I'm guilty).
Emily Chaiet
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My goal is to get straight A's. I have gotten straight A's all through out middle school, and received the plaque for it. This year I hope to get my third plaque. To achieve this goal I will study very hard for all of my test.
Sabrina Rutner
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My main goal is to apply myself more into my school work and getting involved in more extra curricular groups. I want to do more then the minimum and achieve higher expectations. I want to study at Columbia University, and for that I not only need to have amazing grades, but I also need to be a well rounded person. Able to achieve anything I put my mind too. Hopefully, in the near future I will be able to make a change, not only in my life and people that surround me, but in people that can't help themselves.
Sammi Staropoli
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A goal of mine is to definietly get all A's in school, so I can go to Princeton for college. A goal not relating to school is, for me to improve my lacrosse skills and be consistant with catching the ball. Also, I hope to make the Falcon track team this year.
New Goal: I want to be a Mac Genius.
ReplyDeleteJennifer Garcia
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Similar to Mrs. Powers, I want to become a lot better with computers. But, my other goals are to stop procrastinating so much. Example, I've had four days to do Mr. Bryant's homework and I'm first doing it now(oops)
Lauren Adler
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My goal is to make a couple new friends every month, so that before I know it I'll know everyone in my grade (and other grades as well).
@Lauren
ReplyDeleteThat's an interesting goal! Just make sure to be careful who you're friends with because not everyone is nice and/or compatible. :/
Aside from getting good grades, a goal of mine is to improve my dancing skills and become more flexible. On a more fun note, a goal of mine is to go to Harry Potter World (for the first time) by the end of this year, and I want to convince my mom to take me to the Taylor Swift concert in November.
ReplyDeleteRaquel Bejany
Period 1
Isabella Bishop Per. 3
ReplyDeleteMy goal this year to be able to fluently speak German, and to get better at playing my flute. I hope to be at least third chair by the time the school year is over and to be able to go to either Chicago or New York with the school band.
Honestly I care about my grades (I know it's surprising), but I would like to be or at least look more positive. Also, I want to be able to take as many high school credit, college credit, AP, etc. classes in order to graduate early or with honors and go right into architecture. I just LOVE building!!! I would like to become a Master in architecture. I additionally want to draw more and get better at it. I'm already good,but better is always better.;)
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Gabrielle G.
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A couple of my many goals are:
1) To get good grades-Everyone's goal! I don't know what collage I want to go to yet, but I do want to get into a good collage and have a good career when I'm older.
2) To try new things. I don't do enough of that, but I'm going to try and do something new, something outside my comfort zone. I need to push myself.
3) To become a better artist. Art is very important to me. I love to paint, draw, etc. I've never tried sculpting before, but I'd like to. I also want to try other forms of painting-abstract, etc. I've been interested in art most of my life, and I doubt that's ever going to change. I want to increase my artistic abilities/skills-I might even be interested in becoming an artist after collage.
4) To help people. I always feel great when I can help someone. I started volunteering at a less fortunate elementary school last year and I hope to continue that, even though it means missing school once in a while. :)
5) To write a story. This last one I've been trying for a while now, but whenever I start it always seems to sound like trash. I never get past the first couple chapters, but I'm going to try again soon. This time I'm going to try writing a murder mystery. Hope it turns out well!
I have a couple of goals. One is to get good grades so I can go to Stanford University. That is my dream to attend such a prestigious university. Another goal I have is to play on two Falcon Cove sports teams. I am currently on the soccer team and will try out for track in December.
ReplyDeleteRaquel, a couple of weeks ago,I went to Islands of Adventure and went to Harry Potter World. I haven't read any of the books or seen any of the movies but, I learned so much about Harry Potter. It is such a cool place and they made it look like you are actually in Hogwarts. I even tried butter beer! (:
Danielle Bush
Period 5
Tara Bagherlee, Period 5
ReplyDeleteCurrently, one of my short term goals is to finish the Harry Potter series for the first time by birthday, in mid-October. I would also love to go to Harry Potter World (a lot more than love, actually) like Raquel. I have plans to go this Thanksgiving. Also, while on the topic of books, my next books to tackle are The Help and the Hunger Games series.
My long term goals are things such as maintaining good grades and becoming a little more active in my community. I would also love to pursue a career in Journalism/Medicine when I'm older.
Wow. I haven't commented on these in forever.
ReplyDelete@ Cat~ Are you really still being a guest blogger?
I find it quite entertaining (I'm not surprised though) that everyone is setting long distance goals. If we are discussing those, my long term goals would be:
1) Get into a great college
2) Have all A's and a great GPA all throughout high school
3) Make All-State on Oboe (Have to wait until next september to try out again)
4) Travel the world
Then, there are the short term goals. These are the actual goals that make the long term goals actually possible. My short term goals would be:
1) Actually study so I can stay in the top 1-5% of the freshman (studying ewww).
2) Condition and practice more in hopes of making the tennis team.
3) Train to do well in MAO and science bowl (You missed the meeting by the way).
4) Get lost to find something cool I wasn't looking for.
5) Practice oboe once in a while.
6) start commenting on the blogs again
Jake Ukleja (Class of 2011)
Awesome, Jake! It's great to have a fellow freshman participate on here. :) Btw, yeah, I asked for all goals, but mostly I'm getting academic ones for answers since most girls don't want to write "Get so-and-so to like me," and guys don't want to write "Go out with so-and-so," even though we all know that half of them have that as a goal. :P Less personal things are always easier to write about. ;)
ReplyDeleteLeah Percal (LA-Period 1)
ReplyDeleteThis topic:
I think that if somebody is going to cheat on an assignment, they might as well not even do it. In my opinion, cheating is worse than just not completing an assignment. Getting a 0 on one thing won't kill you, but you can get into some serious issues if you are caught cheating.
This guy in one of my classes always tries to cheat off of me and it's really annoying because when I cover my paper, he always says "Why won't you let me just copy you!?" which makes me even more mad!
Replying to comments:
Mrs. Powers, I like your goal! My goal is probably to keep good grades in all of my classes, and make a lot of new good friends!
~Leah P.