To me,  scholarship means trying your hardest to achieve success in academics. In terms of the Honors College, it means exceeding the required classes and terms, and it means pushing yourself to do things you have always wanted to do, but felt like you couldn’t.

When I entered college, I was an average student. I graduated high school with a 3.67 gpa, and had a few clubs under my belt. Nervous for college, I knew I had to change my studying habits. I pushed myself the first year and took harder courses than I needed (MATH 171 for example instead of a simpler course), and held myself to higher standards than I did previously in academics. I finished this first year with a 3.845 gpa, making the Deans List both semesters. My next goal is to make the Presidents List.

Scholarship is more than success. It is determination and drive to achieve what you want, not what you can. Scholarship is making  and planning for new goals when you meet your old ones instead of just congratulating yourself and stopping there. I plan to apply scholarship to my academic career at Longwood in every course, whether it simply be a General Education Requirement, a Major/Minor Requirement, or an Honors Course.

I finished my second year with a 3.925 cumulative gpa, receiving a 4.0 and spot on the President’s List both semesters of the 2018-2019 school year.