<p>End 8th grade where all my friends were going to prestigious private prep schools and I was going to a public school with a 30 percent graduation rate. I told the principle I wanted to go to the Academy and he told me try to get into high school first. I fought to get into a better school which I did, one of the best. I told everyone I wanted to get into the academy and everyone tried to talk me out of it. It took my whole freshman year of high school to be put into my honors program. I realized that I wanted to join the military and I wanted to be a good leader. I wanted to be an officer. The most challenging way to become an officer is through the Academy. I know a few cadets at the Academy and I just fell in love with it. When I went to go visit the Academy during July before my junior year I fell in love with it even more. How I truely found out that the Academy was for me is when I went to the Naval Academy Summer Seminar. I loved everything about it, so I knew that I wanted in. I had a lot of fun. I still got a long way to go though, a long way to go. Might take me a year or two but ill make it.</p>