What Makes Me Honorable

I, Adam Senko, am honorable. And as an honorable student, I possess the traits of scholarship, leadership, service, and character, and incorporate them into my daily life.
I am committed to learning. I achieve high marks in all of my classes. In the six quarters of high school that I have taken so far, I have made high honors each time, and I am on track to achieve that a seventh straight quarter. And I did not attain this goal by taking easy classes because if I can take an honors course or a more advanced course, I will take it. I could have taken easier courses this year, but instead, I chose to take honors in whatever I could, including honors chemistry, a notoriously difficult course at Bishop Brady, and BC Pre-Calculus, which is a preparatory
I know that good grades are not everything because if I forget all of the information from the school year, all I will have to show for my high school career is a bunch of arbitrary numbers, however high they might be. I also continue to do learn, even when it may be difficult. This fall, a car ran into my house, destroying a room where I do most of my schoolwork. I obviously could not hand in the destroyed work, but I still made up all of my lost work in a timely manner and did not let my grades suffer. My passion for knowledge also extends outside of school. For a half hour every Monday, and for an hour every Tuesday, I could be found at the Concord Community Music School, either taking saxophone lessons or jamming out in a jazz ensemble. Over the past several years, I have become rather good; mastering the form of a twelve bar blues, and deftly playing difficult bebop tunes. Also, to continue learning new songs and techniques, and also because I find it fun, I play the saxophone every day for at least 30 minutes, and sometimes more. I have also
Although I may not hold any official leadership positions, I believe that I possess the necessary characteristics needed in any good leader and enjoy utilizing them. The main place that I see myself as a leader is on the soccer field. On the JV soccer team for the last two years, I played nearly every available minute at center back, or middle defense, rarely coming off the field. As a player who can see nearly the entire field, a center back has many other jobs other than one on one defending. One of the center back's principle responsibilities is to make sure that all of the other nine outfield players are in the correct position. If I ever saw someone out of position, my job was to tell them where they should be. This proved to be a challenge because while some of my teammates listened, others would complain about me being annoying and bossy. This improved over the course of the two years, as I became more aware that while what I said mattered, sometimes the way I said it mattered more for me to be able to clearly convey my point. Developing those communication skills that were a crucial to help me be a more effective leader on the team. However, Brady is not the only place where I demonstrate leadership qualities while soccer. For the last two years, I have also played on a soccer team outside of school that I started after an old classmate of mine asked if I wanted to start an indoor soccer team in the high school rec league. We started the team, and also