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graduation. Additionally, I have also sacrificed my family and friends. I remember having lost
four of my close relatives in accidents during my third year at the college. Despite the loss of my
close family, I could not even create time to attend their funerals and join the family in grieving
because of my tight schedule.
Sleep is the second most sacrifice a student need to sacrifice on to succeed in college.
Just like Eric slept in abandoned structures in his quest to succeed, I too sacrificed and still
continues to sacrifice on my sleep in my quest to succeed in college. During my first year in high
school, I was very lazy and would often be the first to sleep and last to wake up. More
particularly, I would usually pretend I am sick and remain in the dormitory when all students
were attending evening tuition. However, this came to change as I could not catch up with the
rest of the class members. As a result, I registered very dismal performance in my class. I
realised the significance of sacrificing sleep during an open day at school when my parent had an
opportunity to discuss my poor performance with the teachers. After which I made a dedication
to being sacrificing on my sleep by reading on my own during the night when every student was
asleep. In some instance, I would place my legs in the cold water while studying during sleep
time to avoid falling asleep. As a result, I started registering an improvement in my performance,
and this has been my main motivation for forgoing sleep in college. Forgoing sleep can enable a
student to get ample time to reflect on what has been taught and grasp knowledge.
To conclude, the two sacrifices explored in this essay turn out to be the most critical
sacrifices that any student need to take so as to prosper in their career. Thus, I would suggest that
students should sacrifice sleep and friends to succeed in college since these sacrifices have
proved very fundamental in my career. Nonetheless, also to these two sacrifices students also
need to compliment these two sacrifices with other sacrifices like partying out if they are to
enhance their success at the college. Moreover, due to the difference in individual intellect, this
essay does not intend to imply that students who do not make these sacrifices often fail in their
career. To this end, it is upon each and every student to know himself or herself and set up
sacrifices that he or she deal can negatively influence his or her career outcome.