Scholarship Essay Submissions

Throughout elementary and middle school, it was always very hard for me to stay on task and pay attention when the teachers were talking. I struggled to complete a task…

The time that I struggled in a school subject was in seventh grade in algebra. I had a teacher that was fresh out of college, he was my home room…

Biology was a subject that I struggled with in school. Up until taking biology my freshmen year, I had not had any previous struggles. I had a hard time understanding…

All throughout school, I’ve struggled in math. Once I started to take higher level maths, my grades plummeted. I figured that I just must not be good at math and…

A tornado blew and a disaster struck. In eighth grade, I have never made a B let alone a C. What happened on the test? An F appeared in bright,…

During my Sophomore year of high school, I struggled with Algebra 2. During class, my teacher, Ms. Bricker would do her best to teach each lesson to the entirety of…

You walk up and down the halls and most of the time we judge people on how they act and how they look, but we don’t usually think about their…

It didn’t take long for me to realize that math and numbers were vast sources of frustration for me. I guess if I am being honest I would have to…

Public speaking has always found a way to make my heart skip two beats. No matter the situation, whether a room full of friends, or a five hundred student lecture…

Math has always been my most challenging subject. Unlike English or even Spanish, I’ve always had to go the extra mile. Last year, in Algebra 2, I faced my greatest…