F.+Midterm+Essay

1-26-11 Dear Ashley, 30% of high school students do not go to college. The goals you should achieve next semester are getting your grades up in general. You need your grades to be up in order to get into college. These days you cannot do anything unless you have a college education. You do not want to be stuck somewhere doing a terrible job. Get your grades up. When you get your grades up you will be able to do more. You can see your friends whenever you want. You will have your computer and cell phone, without having to worry about getting them taken away. You would be able to do more activities, either school related, or out of school as well. Once you get your grades up you will have a lot less stress. Your dad will not be constantly harassing and bothering you to do so. The second goal you can do during the second semester is becoming more social. Since your freshman year of high school you have not had a very big variety of friends. I think it is about time you get out there and make some new ones. Being sociable is healthy; it is what you are supposed to do. Get a wide variety of friends. If you have friends from every social group, like the popular kids or the athletic girls, then you have similar interests. You might be able to excel in that common interest in the future. Your third and last goal is, start looking at colleges. You do not want to procrastinate. You know that never worked out very well. I am sure that is what got you half of these bad grades in the first place. Colleges are not something you can just wait last minute to do. You have to go to them and talk about it, up front, early and in person. Otherwise you will not get anywhere with the idea. Luckily, if your grades are good enough, colleges will ask you to come see them. Getting into college is going to be your future. You do not want to blow it. People will argue that you have personal things to deal with other then school. Family issues for example, should be dealt with at home. That way once you come to school, you have full concentration on school work and you are not distracted. People will argue that grades are not the only thing you need to focus on while in school. They will say that you need to focus on your health as well. They might tell you to do physical education to get in shape. Even thought being in shape is important, and it might save you in the long run, grades are still the way to go, because this long run is closer. So do these goals and you should end up fine for your senior year. You will be able to relax without even really worrying about anything plus you will even eventually get somewhere in life. Everything revolves around the grades and the social life. Sincerely, Ashley