Procrastination and College Apps DO NOT Mix Well

     The whole college application process is not hard... but those 4-8 essays at the very end of those college apps take a lot of time. A mistake I experienced was waiting till the last few days to finish up my college apps. Some people, when they rush a homework assignment or project, the outcome is sometimes their best work. I am definitely not categorized with those people. If I rush any type of work, it will never be my best. I need to plan, brainstorm and create rough draft after rough draft in order to develop my best work.
     My advice to students who want to go to college, is this: PLAN NOW. Whether you are a Junior or Freshman, PLANNING is your best friend, not PROCRASTINATING.  You will want to research colleges so you get a better understanding of what colleges you may want to apply to. After that, you should research your major and make sure that the colleges you are interested in has your major. Next, finding scholarships is also a good idea because I know many of you young whipper snappers do not have $10,000-50,000, depending on which college you want to attend. My last piece of advice, is to find the prompts of essays (some college apps have them) and finish those essays as soon as possible, but also brainstorm, rough draft, and put a lot of thought in each essay. Do not fluff your essays. Be yourself when writing your essays. Describe yourself how you see yourself and not how others see you.
     Do not listen to Cindy Reyes. Do not breathe. Get on those college apps now! You need to have your eyes on the ball. Always stay focused. There is no rest until those college apps are finished. I still have flashbacks from the traumatizing experience of procrastinating and finishing my college apps last minute.

Just kidding about that last paragraph. Ya'll will be fine.

More to come

       
As a first year independent in leadership, this is all a new experience for me and I'm enjoying it so far. This year I've seen class of 2019 fundraising way more than we did last year, yes I know, I wasn't in leadership last year but to me, it's obvious which classes are the ones who fundraise.
This year, in my opinion, De Anza has way more events and chances for leadership to fundraise.

For my class specifically, I'd like to help in any way possible whether its selling every first friday or selling at sports events, it'll eventually all be worth it. We plan to sell all throughout the school year or whenever we can. We plan to atleast sell 2 or more times a month and to have a certain amount of money by the end of our sophomore year.

Our goal by the time we're seniors is to have enough money to pay most of the costs that come with senior year. Which includes all only senior activities to even the DJ for our prom. I just think that there could never be enough fundraising because all it does is benefit our class in so many ways. There's many goals we have for our class but they all lead to being ready for our senior year and that's basically what we do it all for.

Sophomore Class Goals

     Moving forward into the next year, I'd like to see my class succeed for themselves personally. It'd be wonderful to see at least most of the sophomore class participate in spirit days so we can get the chance of winning on rally days, but it takes a lot of encouragement of reaching out to our class but it's doable. Another goal I have set for my class is to fundraise more.

     Last year was a beginner experience when it came to raising money for our class, but we made a huge improvement of selling more items of food more often compared to the previous year. My goal is for us to sell at the very least, twice a month. It is crucial that we raise more money every month for beneficial uses. Hopefully by the end of the school year we raise more and more money so that by the time of our senior year we will be able to have enjoyable events for our soon to be senior class activities.

     We had many accomplishments this year, especially with our class float looking amazing than it did last year. We reach out to our class more when it comes to letting them know about school activities on social media. The main goal our class needs to accomplish is to reach the goal of how much money we need to guarantee the chance of having senior activities, because our senior year has to be the best with memories filled with all the activities we could possibly do that year.

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           Since this is my first year in leadership my goal for this class is giving my sophomore year class the best experience in high school.I want them to get pump up for the rallies,participate in school activities, and help us to reach new goals every year. Some goals i have for my sophomore leadership class is to come up with more ideas so that we can have more opportunities to sell and get money.I really hope we can accomplish that.

     I want my class to able to participate more in selling food.We already have some ideas of what to sell in upcoming events.By the end of the year i want my class to have AT LEAST $1,500 in our account. I think if we work hard enough we can accomplish that goal.I think we're going to sell something this Friday.

Little by little if we sell enough things we can have enough money for our grad night maybe even more. That's one of my goal I REALLY want to accomplish.I hope everybody would always buy our stuff so that every time we sell we sold out. That's a good sign that we're making money.That it what I want my class to accomplish

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                                       Sophomore class 2019

                                                Kyle santiago

Some goals I would like for my class of 2019 I think that we should Fundraise more that 

And raise more money because this year we did not raise that much money but hopefully

Next year we can fundraise more and come up with better ideas with my class. The
Accomplishments that we did make this year is that we was selling pretty good in the
Football games, so I was thinking to tell my class that we should sell like in the basketball
Games.




Opportunities I would like for our class next year is that if we should sell more in basketball
Games and that we should sell stuff that people want. Another one is that We should connect with our class and Not leave nobody out this year, I noticed this year that we really was not interacting with our class like that. I would also like our class next year for us to be really be loud in our rally next year in February I felt that we could have done better but everybody doesn't like to be fun but I'm going to talk to the people that feel left out.


Some accomplishment we had this year in leadership for our class that we made the float in time
And we had a lot of people come for that. Another is that we did not have that much suspensions
As last year, Also this year we had made more people come to the jv and var games so we can help our class so they can get more money fundraising. I remember we sold planners so the students won't be struggling and be messy with there work everywhere and forget the pages.

Reaching Out

Reaching Out

          How on earth does a small group of six Leadership students get to know their entire class of about three hundred something Freshmen students? While that is not an easy task, I think it's something that's very important to do, mainly because as a leader, I feel its necessary to make sure everyone has a voice. If you don't know everyone, well, how can they have that voice through you?
          I think a really simple, yet beneficial, thing to do for the students who don't know their representation is to be very social, especially during times like lunch or activity days. Just get yourself out there and introduce yourself to new people you've never talked to before, and put yourself out there as their representatives. Another thing you can do is at events, like the rallies or places where there is a vast majority of people, just take a couple of seconds to present yourself to the group. That might not be the same as personally knowing someone, but at least they know who the representation of their class is and they learn a bit about you.
          In terms of reaching out and informing our class, there are many ways we can do so. We can reach out to our class with social media, such as Instagram and Twitter. If we have people following us we can post events and things that are happening or have happened so that everyone is informed. We also have our News cork board that keeps people updated, and the display case in the hallway with the latest awards given to our classmates, such as student of the month. Announcements in the morning is a good way to be connected, as well as posters around school with important information. These are all things we can do to ensure we stay connected and reach out to our class.

Blog #2

Good afternoon Leadership! Some of you have just recently posted your blogs that were past due, so it may seem tedious to do this again but today's reflection is on the following:

Seniors: Many of you recently completed your college application process. Please describe a little, in a reflective capacity, what that experience was like. Most people know it is stressful, but what advice would you pass on to younger students?

Juniors/Sophomores: Since for many this is not your first year in Leadership, what are some goals you would like to set for your class moving forward into the next year? Think about the possibilities of accomplishments or fundraisers or opportunities you would like to have for your classes.

Freshmen: As the smallest Leadership class, but almost always the largest class on campus, brainstorm some ways in which you can help reach out to your class better. Sometimes this is hard, due to the size of the group, but are there teachers, student-leaders or more who could help you speak to more of your class? What do you do for students who just don't know you well as their representative?

Make sure all responses are at least 3 paragraphs long. Pictures are optional. Good luck!