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Getting into college includes juggling activities
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School explained how she
feels emotionally drained at
the end of the day
”I had so many things going
on at once, my grades
dropped because I chose to
sleep instead study or do
homework,” she said. *1 go
through the whole day in a
zone, unless Fve had 10 hours
of sleep and a full course
breakfast. I just try to think
the harder I work on every
thing the closer I am to going
away to college to be a adult ”
Brady Cathey, a counselor
at West Meek, insists it’s nec
essary to jug^e activities.
“Colleges want students
who perform well academi
cally and well in their com
munities also. Students
should strive to be well
rounded in everything they
do so theyll be good candi
dates lor which university
they want to attend.”
Students understand the
importance of multi-tasking
and sacrifice. Allison
Downing works at Eckerd’s
drug store and is a varsity
cheerleader at West Meek.
It’s as difficult to deal with
wins as losses.
“I was stuck between two
hard places during the sum
mer,” she said. “Do I cheer
and lose out on spending
money or do I work and miss
out on what makes me
happy? Ultimately my dad
told me he’d help out and
advised me to cheer, because
in the future I may regret I
didn’t. In the end I decided to
do both. I won’t get a lot of
money but it’s better than
none.”
Quentin Jamal Jackson, 17
has shared the same experi
ence.
“I wanted to play football
last year at West Meek but
they don’t leave practice until
like seven so I decided to
work. Football cant buy me
the clothes and shoes any
way, that I so desperately
need, unless I get inducted
When it s
news to
you, it’s
Cbarlottt
$0£t
into the NFL.”
Patel and Jackson handle
conceritaticni in the classroom
in different ways.
“I only fall asleep if the
teacher is babbling on about
nothing, then I lose my focus
and it goes on to other
things,” Patel said “I did’nt
know on clocks the minute
hand moves little by little
every second, until I was
bored in class one morning.”
Jackson says he rarely
sleeps in class.
“Tve fallen asleep in class
befcae but now I have a pho-
Ha that m doze off and wake
up with my pockets empty!”
“I know it’ll be days where
Tm like ‘do I have to go to
work or do I have to wake up
early in the morning,’ but it’s
what I have to do,” Patel said.
“I can’t alack because there’s a
person who wants to go to
(UNO Chapell Hill just like I
do and me dropping a club I’m
in can mean that stud^t is
getting in and Fm not.”
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