Remarks by President Barack Obama

This speech was really inspirational and it had me thinking about where my education is going to get me in life. As a student, I feel that my responsibilities are to: ask for help whenever I need it, never give up on a subject when it starts to get too hard for me, make my own decisions, and don’t let others influence me if I know that there might be trouble following it; in order to be successful. Now my goals for high school are to maintain over a 3.0 GPA at all times and to take and pass Calculus before I graduate. When I was in eighth grade, we had to do this thing called a portfolio and pass it in order to graduate. On my first portfolio check in, I got a straight 50%, F, on it. But I kept working on it got all the materials I needed in order to pass it the next check in and I did. I still feared that I wouldn’t pass on the portfolio but in the end I ended up getting two 4’s, otherwise known as passes. I felt like that there was a weight lifted off of my shoulders because I passed my portfolio and all my hard work had paid off. This experience taught me that if I fail at first, don’t give up and try again, success will come out as a result. Perseverance, it is perseverance that will help me grow as a student and keep me on track to achieving all of my goals. But I do procrastinate a lot and I plan on correcting that and not doing it by the time I get out of ninth grade. That is one of my major goals not just as a student, but as a person.