High School Career / SMART Goals

                My experience over the last three and a half years of high school has definitely been a positive. Some people say they hate the environment that high school presents to them, but on the other hand I love that environment. The main reason I have enjoyed this environment, is because Cal High is such a diverse school in terms of the classes, students, and teachers. The diversity of this school has given me a deeper point of view on things like social situations, communications, and outright survival. In my eyes high school is the same as a big city, just to a smaller scale. In a city you need to be able to survive by yourself without the assistance of others and need to be able to adjust to difficult scenarios thrown your way. When you attend such a big school like this then you really learn the skills to survive. I have learned these skills and really tried to work on improving throughout my high school career. I now feel that I am ready to survive in environment. I have learned about a lot of different subjects, and they will be a huge factor in my success. Although in my opinion the most valuable thing that I have taken from school is the life skills. Coming into high school I had the ability to get good grades if I put effort into it, but I had a lack of skills in social situations and mental toughness. I am so thankful for high school allowing me to fix those issues. Now I feel invincible in life.

               My first smart goal is to get straight A's in the second semester of my senior year. I made that goal last semester also, but I took on a little bit more than I could handle and didn't accomplish that goal. Now that I have more time, I feel I can actually do it. The people involved will only be me and my teacher. The purpose of this goal is for when my parents talk about high school, I can just say I got straight A's in my last semester. I will continuously check school loop to know where my grades. This goal will be measurable based on the outcome of my final report card. I need to focus in class and have good time management skills to obtain this goal. This is a realistic goal because I have easily done this before. I need to complete this by June, when I graduate.

               My second smart goal is to improve my networking skills. The people that I talk to in my internship are involved in this. I will measure the effectiveness of this goal by counting how many contacts I have. I want to have ten times as many contacts at the end of this goal. This is a very attainable goal because my mentor in my internship is showing me how to get this skill. It’s a realistic goal, because I have the proper resources to complete it. I want to finish this goal by the end of next semester.

               My third smart goal is to save money from my job. I can measure this by seeing how much money I have at the end of my time table. I can attain this goal by saving two thirds of each of my paychecks. I want to save 2000$ by the end of the year. I want to obtain this goal by the 1st of June.

                I think these are really good and obtainable goals.