What makes ME a Spartan?

**The next few posts featured on the blog will feature Essay winners and finalist's compositions from a Scholarship contest put on by the Parent Guild. Each of the three winners received a $500 scholarship for the next academic year.**

By: Nemesis Contreras - Freshman

Contest winner!!

Some schools are the Dolphins; others are the Eagles, but me I’m a Spartan. What makes me a Spartan? I’ll tell you. I’m a Spartan because I attend Immaculate Conception Academy, but more than that I’m a woman of faith.

I wake up early in the morning and am present at school ready to learn, while other teenagers are at home still sleeping. Working in the Corporate Work Study program also makes me a Spartan; being the only all girls’ school with this program is truly a responsibility to live up to. I’m in an office filing and delivering various and often important documents to departments at the age of fifteen. While others go to school and are thinking about their jobs, I’m out there taking action and gaining experience in a real office at such an early age.

A Spartan goes out and represents her school like a young lady should, with a respectful, classy attitude. I always keep a positive attitude even during the long days at ICA. A school day may sometimes be as long as nine hours, followed by homework, but as a Spartan it’s my responsibility to turn in all assignments and show nothing but the best of effort in my work. Also, making sure if one of my peers needs help I help them, because being a Spartan does not just mean having good grades and being ambitious. It’s being available to hold your hand out if one of your classmates needs it. I take pride in doing my work at school, while helping others whenever they need help, taking the initiative to join a club, speaking for those who don’t have a voice. To be Spartan you must be energetic, for all the rallies and fun activities at ICA. Go Spartans!