Derek Klingel

What Motivates you to work hard??

I find this question to be very interesting and I want to explain why. If someone were to ask me this question, I would probably come up with some BS to tell them. What really motivates me to work hard is when I am not satisfied, or I'm mad at someone or something, or when something is bothering me. These are all the probably more negative things that motivate me. There are some positive things like, thinking about the results, or wanting to be better. ...

I am in the city of Boston right now with my dad. The reason I came is to visit a college here and I ended up visiting Northeastern University. Even though I have a zero percent chance of getting accepted into this school, it was still fun to see it. I really love just being in a city. Watching other people, walking around, millions of places to shop and eat, never feeling bored, and I don't know I just love it. Seeing that college and other amazingly smart people, makes me wish I was smarter...

I am officially done with junior year of high school and I am very happy about it. Junior year was supposed to be the hardest year according to what people tell me and I'm not going to lie, it was pretty hard. It was not the classes only that made it hard, but it was hard because you have to do so many things all in one year. There is the SATs and other standardized tests on top of all the schoolwork from classes. I have been thinking about my future so much this past year. I am a...