Natalie Manzo

AP English
Period: 04
10/08/18

By this time next year, I should have an easy schedule with a couple hard classes. I
should be fit and ready for basic training for the Coast Guard. I should know what college I want
to go do after coast guard, and I should know my scores to understand what I want to do in my
future. I should have a job and be coming up with the money I will one day use to go to school
and support myself and not depend so much on my parents.
I need to mentally and physically prepare myself for Coast Guard. I should have taken
my SAT and had very good scores, and if didn’t have good scores in the spring, than i Would
have just taken it in september again and got a better score that time.

When I see myself now, I know there's things I need to improve on. I see myself at this time
next year, and I know who I want to be. I know how I want to look and how I would like myself to
be, but it takes now to get there. So I’m going to tell you all the things i want to accomplish by
this time next year. During the winter after volleyball season, I plan to start training for the coast
guard. The positions i would go for would be yeoman which is when you help communicate with
others, or a MST which is a Marine science technician. In this position i would be deployed in
areas with oil spills or hazardous situations that can harm people, animals, or our environment. I
need to start eating healthy, and really focus on my classes so that by this time next year i can
be focused on the classes i need for coast guard, which would be computer classes or science
classes. I want to start getting fit so that I can really work towards my goal of being in the coast
guard. To get there i need to be ready to take my asvab test( a military test) . I plan to take my
asvab test in April of 2019 so that by the summer , i know whether or not my test scores were
good, so that if it's not i can take it again in June. I will then be starting my senior year, which i
plan to take classes that will help me with getting into one of the two positions i want. Classes i
could take would be medical english or college courses you can take at the college. I want to
have a good senior year, so I wont stress myself out too much. I also want to be very involved
next year so I am hoping that my parents will let me go to as many sports events as possible
and I hope they’ll allow me have fun with my friends, because who knows where we’ll all be
after high school.