Exhibit: National Honor Society
Benchmark: Personal Management
Skills: P103: Meet School and/or work deadlines. 

    During your junior year, if you have an accumulative G.P.A of a 3.5 or higher, you can be given the opportunity to apply to join the National Honor Society. To apply you have to write an essay about the four pillars of the honor society: character, scholarship, leadership, and service. Along with your essay you also have to have two letters of recommendation. Then that goes before the board and they decide if you meet all of the qualifications or not. I submitted all of the necessary documents and made it in. After this I chose my NHS advisor, Mr. Rouster, and was inducted into the National Honor Society.

 

    NHS requires you to do four hours of community service a month. As a member I made this a primary goal each month. Obviously this could be challenging to any high school student whether they were juggling sports, academics, friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, family or even work. But each month each member had to have four hours done by the end of the month. I met these requirements each month through many different volunteering opportunities. For example, I volunteered to work concessions at the Michigan Theater of Jackson for a show one night. Another time I volunteered to run a game at the Elementary Carnival. There were many great opportunities for volunteer hours that left me with many good experiences.

 

    Through the necessity of the volunteer hours each month I learned responsibility in time management and deadlines. I had to constantly be aware of getting the hours done before the end of the month and NHS taught me these skills easily. I know that I will have many time constraints and deadlines in my future career of Music Therapy. I will have deadlines put in the form of paperwork for each patient and also the deadline to submit reports about my work with patients. NHS has also helped prepare me for my young adult life by making me aware of my time and how it is spent. I know that in my future as a young adult I will almost always have a bill due at some point and I could very well have to work overtime in order to make enough money to accommodate my budget and be able to pay all of my bills by the end of the month. The monthly hours due for NHS have helped prepare me for both my future career and young adult life and I am grateful for the skills I have developed.