Teamwork

作者通过在学校学习，参加了游泳队之后，意识到了团队协作的重要性。不仅仅在体育方面，学生在学校应该全面发展；单人的力量是有限的，团队的潜能是无限的。“我认为埃默里是一个好学校，因为它为我提供了一个游泳队，我们有着相同的目标，相互促进并成功。”

Extra Activities 1. Of the extracurricular activities that I have participated in, the one that has meant the most to me is swimming. I started swimming when I was nine years old, while living in France. It quickly became a way for me to meet new people and to make friends with people that had similar interests as me. I continued swimming when I moved back to the U.S. The sport continued to play a major role in my life. Each year I would commit myself to the sport more and more.

During my years in high school, I began to train close to twenty hours a week. From the time and effort that I put into the sport, swimming returned to me a few important qualities that are needed in the real world. The first was goal setting. As in any sport, being able to set and work towards goals is very important. However, in swimming it is twice as important because you have to be able to keep these goals in mind at all times and to adjust them as you achieve them. A second quality that I gained from swimming is time management. Training nearly twenty hours a week during high school, made getting homework and studying hard at first. I had to learn to pace myself and balance my time so that I could maintain my grades and still be able to attend swim practices and go to the meets on the weekends.

With these two qualities inspired by swimming, I have been able to use them with my schoolwork and everything that I do in life. The sport of swimming is very important to me, not just because it is fun, but also because it help to prepare me for the real world. 2. Emory is the school for me because the college offers the right setting and atmosphere, along with a great swim team. The first reason Emory is right for me is that its swim team is excellent. The men\'s team is closely approaching a national championship, and I think I could add some depth to the team. It has always been a dream of mine to take part in a team that works together to win something. I think that swimming for Emory could make this happen. Along with the team being great in the water, the swimmers are pretty hot in the classroom.

The team has the highest team grade point average for all other college swim teams. This fact makes Emory stand out in my mind as a better place for me because I want to succeed in the pool, but I do not want to sacrifice my academics. The team works together both in the pool and in the classroom. The second and more important reason why Emory is the school for me is that it offers an atmosphere for success in the classroom. The school has a small enrollment of pretty serious students. The seriousness can be measured by the cost of attendance. It?s a private school and attracts high school graduates who want to achieve a strong higher education. I am one of these students. The school keeps out the occasional kids who just go to college to have a great time.

Don?t get me wrong, I want to have a good time, but that is secondary to achieving a good education. Without the distractions of non-serious students, I would be able to stay focused on the task at hand, maintaining good grades. In short, I think Emory is the school for me because it offers a swim team that has the same goals as mine in an atmosphere that promotes success. Bibliography:

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