At the moment I am a sophomore, and I really really like Wake.

My current resume is:

3.9 GPA (non-weighted)
Sport (softball, so far only JV)
Community Service (over 100 hours so far)
Spanish Club
School newspaper (which is 5th in the nation)
1740 PSAT (I took it freshman year… I intend on getting a MUCH better score on the SAT when I take it)

In the next few years I intend on taking 9 AP classes, and receiving at least a B or better in all of them. I also plan on getting a 1900-2000 on the SAT. By senior year I will likely have an editorship on my newspaper and become president of the Spanish club for leadership, and make varsity softball (though I don’t intend on playing the sport in college.) I’m also a very good writer, so I plan on writing a great essay.

I know I’m thinking about college sort of early, but I’m a big planner. If you can help me out with any words of advice or an honest opinion on my chances that would be great, thanks!

Wake Forest is a very difficult school for admission, but you are doing very well at this point. Keep ot up and you have a chance for Wake Forest./

Here to help, so here it goes…

Monday: 3-5 mile jog.
Tuesday: Upper body work – Weights, push ups, arm endurance.
Wednesday: Half mile swim, build to mile. (64 Lengths of 25M Pool = 1 mile)
Thursday: Rest
Friday: Legs, core/abs – Dips(Squats), crunches, leg lifts, Flexability, endurance etc..
Saturday: Sprints – 30m sprint – 60m Jog, repeat about 10-12 times and build to 16.
Sunday: Rest

Work on building all your attributes and research exercises online.. don’t expect to build muscle from press ups or dips etc.. Research online.

Follow the program for 6-8 weeks before starting classes, learn more about boxing and purchase equipment if you wish.

Once you join.. talk to your trainer about how you can improve your boxing and fitness,
A boxer typically trains on:
Muscle Fibers – Repetitive actions such as straight punches for round after round.
Power Training – Throwing huge shots on the bag, Jumping up steps, Fast weight training.. All in short bursts with little oxygen.
Endurance – Banging out press up to burpee to sprints.. Teaching their bodies to keep going, going, going!
Fitness – Training in short bursts, having time to recover as best as possible and go again, e.g Sprints.
Conditioning – Taking shots/medicine balls to the body and preparing your body for punishment.
Co-ordination – Skipping and footwork, even when your knackered they gotta bang it out.
Cardio – Plenty of it, running and swimming and more.. Improving your heart and body efficiency.
Over conditioning – Training 13 rounds before a 12 round fight, punching with weights and survival sparing..

It is hard going in a class… Join and train with a friend.. this will give you a bit of a competitive edge and raise your confidence.

My current resume is:

3.9 GPA (non-weighted)
Sport (softball, so far only JV)
Community Service (over 100 hours so far)
Spanish Club
School newspaper (which is 5th in the nation)
1740 PSAT (I took it freshman year… I intend on getting a MUCH better score on the SAT when I take it)

In the next few years I intend on taking 9 AP classes, and receiving at least a B or better in all of them. I also plan on getting a 1900-2000 on the SAT. By senior year I will likely have an editorship on my newspaper and become president of the Spanish club for leadership, and make varsity softball (though I don’t intend on playing the sport in college.) I’m also a very good writer, so I plan on writing a great essay.

I know I’m thinking about college sort of early, but I’m a big planner. If you can help me out with any words of advice or an honest opinion that would be great, thanks!
.50 BMG: haha true! but at this point i’m just trying to get into these places, and i’ll worry about the money later

high

Baton twirling is an activity involving the manipulation of a metal rod and the human body to a coordinated routine and is similar to rhythmic gymnastics or color guard (flag spinning). Twirling combines dance and gymnastics while manipulating a single baton or multiple batons. It is primarily performed with the accompaniment of music. Fundamental characteristics of the sport include the handling of the baton to create visual images, pictures, and patterns executed with dexterity both close in and around the body and the release of the baton into the air. The discipline requires the simultaneous blending of these fundamental characteristics, utilizing time and space to display both technical merit and artistic expression.

Baton twirling requires skillful coordination and extraordinary control of the human body. Additionally it requires a great amount of flexibility in order to properly execute baton, dance, and gymnastics elements. Choreography for baton twirling is designed to promote expression of the body through dance and movement to create a demonstration of strength, flexibility, physical fitness, beauty, aesthetics, and harmony in coordination with the manipulation of the baton.[1]

Hope I helped!

You have not mentioned if you have made it into wearing bogu yet or not, and I think that will be a big milestone for you to show how serious you are about Kendo. Generally, those who make it to bogu, and then train in it, will continue some way or another. Kendo is a life long journey, not something like, say, tennis, where at the age of 30, you are considered past your prime.

Like the previous answers, there must be alternative modes of transport available. If you do not have the ability to drive yourself, then pushbikes may be possible (we have a 60+ year old gentleman in our club who rides to training on a pushbike with his bogu and shinai tied onto his bike), or car-pooling too is an option. If you have the funds, and are feeling a little rebellious, you could even take slightly more drastic measures of a taxi, and then see how your parents like the idea of spending so much money to go to training.

Determination, preserverence, committment. Show them to your parents, and I hope that they will soften their decision if they realise exactly how much effort YOU are willing to go to.

I don’t see how your brother will suffer from your participation. He can train Kendo too if he is interested, and as a martial artform, it will provide physical exercise and development, mental strength, and also discipline, respect, compassion, patience and humbleness.

My parents believe that I shouldn’t give up my Kendo, even when work takes me interstate on a weekly regular basis, because of what Kendo holds in value for anyone that practices it. As I mentioned before, it is something you will do for life, you will never forget how to do Kendo once you get into it far enough. I took a two year break due to other commitments, then came back and passed my grading with two weeks training.

I know people in our club that travel 2hrs on public transport to train with us. It takes me 40minutes by car or an hour by public transport also. People who are dedicated will always find a way.

I wish you luck in changing your parents’ opinions.

As for March, if they offer to take you during your big tests, go. Be prepared well enough for your exams, but take the time to train also, it will provide balance. If you show them you can get your study and extra-curricular together, they then have even less reason to object.

All of high school I’ve felt that I have to have perfect grades and be this perfect person, who plays sports and is in all the clubs and does community service and gets a 36 on their act and never sleeps and still manages to be a happy person all the time. And I tried my best to fit in to this role, hoping that in the end I would be keeper of some good experiences and would be able to be a successful graduate and move on to a choice college and make everyone happy. Along the way I learned that it was impossible for me to do all of these things, because that’s just not who I was.
I’m smart and get pretty good grades, but I’m the kind of person that when I don’t understand something, I need to put in a lot of extra time to get it. And I did, as much as I could. I would stay after for math on days that I could and come in before school and study for it in my other classes, but I still couldn’t get my grades where I wanted them to be. When I look back at my C’s and B’s I feel disappointed in myself, because I know I could’ve done better. It just isn’t completely possible for me while playing sports. I always played sports; softball, basketball (for a year), and golf. I didn’t always think it was worth it. I’m not saying that I didn’t have a lot of fun playing them, because I did. And you learn a lot of life skills from sports. But sometimes I just felt like I didn’t like the sport but I wanted to play it to seem like that person who plays all the sports. I ended up only playing basketball a year, but believe me even though I hated it, I almost just kept playing. I always felt like I had to play sports, as to why, I’m not sure. It even seemed more important to me than grades for a while. I knew grades should come first, but a lot of times sports got in the way and grades weren’t a priority. As for being in school clubs, it didn’t seem to me that a lot many people were actually ‘in them’.There’s the people who are die-hard fanatics for key club or book club, and there’s the people who show up a couple times to say that they’re in it. They don’t actually want to devote their little free time to a club. Well I can’t half-do something. I have to go to every practice or every meeting or else I don’t feel like I should be involved. So I never ended up doing many clubs, but all during high school I just felt like I should do more, because what I did wasn’t good enough. I was in National Honors Society. I had to put a lot of time into it, as you have to write an essay and get inducted, then earn 10 hours of community service each trimester. It’s hard to do with sports and school but it was the one thing I made sure I did other than those.
Throughout high school I realized there is no ‘perfect student’.There’s just a lot of people trying. And a lot of people who may seem like they are perfect, but they’re not. What you have to do is choose the things you want to do, and try your best with them. I know now that I can do anything I set my mind to, but not everything. And I think I’ve learned to be happy with that, and to stop feeling like what I do is never good enough. I’m excited to go on to a university with this knowledge and although high school was fun, I’m expecting that college will be way more enjoyable and rewarding.

Yes, thanks. I ‘amma copy it.

And stick to more modern names that sound pretty hehe!

#1 Main Character (15 yrs. old) -Bright Spring Green eyes, Light Brown hair, 5’51/2, slender, Very athletic and competitive. Popular and very pretty. Loves her friends and family. Friendly to everyone. Doesn’t care what other people think. Doesn’t like to take things seriously unless she absolutely has to. Likes to goof off in class just to the point where the teacher is about to flip. And does a good job at keeping her emotions bottled up.

#2 Best Friend (I dont have a last name for her) Hazel eyes, light brown hair (a little lighter then the main characters) She is hilarious and is always up to something crazy. She isn’t very athletic except for the exception of one sport, Softball (Everything else she stinks at) Always wearing fashionable outfits. Friendly to everyone.

#3 Older Sister (17 yrs. old) Looks a lot like the main character except for her hair is a shade darker then the main character’s and she is 5’7. She is a little more timid then the her younger sister. More calm and and not as hyper although can be fun to hang out with. Athletic and competitive. Loves softball and volleyball. Care a great deal for her friends and family and very kind and friendly.

#4- Half sister of main character (Last name Miller and is 18)- Long Golden blond hair that is normally straight but she curls it everyday. Deep green eyes almost the color of moss. Can be bit of a wild card, has a smart mouth that can get her in trouble a lot. Most popular girl in the school and is really pretty. Very nice to people she knows and people she doesn’t have a problem with. Doesn’t show her emotions to other people very much just like the main character. Always wearing something fashionable.

#5 Step sister of the main character and character #3 (not step sister to #4) Is only 5 yrs. old. She has Long Pale blonde hair typically up in a high ponytail or in pigtails and ocean blue eyes. She is very adorable and cute. She gets what she wants most of the time. Loves to spend time with the main character. She is in gymnastics and loves it. And will most likely get into softball. And is always outside doing something.

Please help thank you!!!!!

1 Harper Callahan or Alexandria Callahan
#2 Peyton Winter (Winter could be last name) or Kara Winter
#3 Bridgette Callahan or Maya Callahan
#4 Kyleigh Miller or Jayde Miller
#5 Nikita or Teagan

Thanks for your help

For GP, Zeiss ZA 24-70mm f2.8

For sports, Sigma 300mm f2.8 or Sigma 150-500mm.

Taking 1 Honors
2 APs : APUSH/English 11
1 college class (St. John’s)

Next Year: College Chem/AP Politics/Pre-Calc Honors/AP Latin (and ST. John’s Credit course)

Have taken the most demanding courses available (Been in all honors/AP classes) since freshmen year.

120 Hours of Community Service

Private Catholic Prep School in Northeast

Top 15% ish percent in class

Want to major in one of the following in order of interest: Archaeological Anthropology/Cognitive Neuroscience/Phycology or Psychiatry/Premed/Chemistry

Applying early decision in November 2011

NON ACADEMIC

-Jobs: Daycare assistant/dishwasher at restaurant/Ice cream shoppe. The latter two in the summer for the past 3 years

-Participate in varsity sports (Softball [MVP Offense/Captian]/Volleyball[Labarro])

-Multiple Clubs including Habitat for Humanity/School Networking/Drama/etc

-Stage manager/Crew Chief/Prop Maser for School’s Theater productions since freshman year.

-Studied Irish Dance for 9 years (Pre-lim)

-Member of the National Honors Society

-Won many Academic Awards for Math and Latin

-Cum laude on the National Latin exam.

POSSIBLE OTHER COMPONENTS

White, High middle class, suburban, female

White, High middle class, suburban, female.

This makes it more unlikely with the pretty average stats you have listed above. Try to get your ACT up to about a 32.