The topic that I am choosing to speak about is improving my academic self. The way that I am going to try to connect to the audience is by bringing up my academic history (or lack thereof) and then talk about how I would like to improve. The increase of my grades from freshman year of high school to senior year was pretty significant and I am trying to bring even better qualities to college. I also plan on bringing up the specific ways that I try to get things done or stay organized, maybe talk about planners, routines and productivity. I am a huge procrastinator also and that is possibly relatable to some of my other classmates. I selected this topic because it seemed easier for me to write about my academic self over my professional self. Like I said earlier, academics have not always come easy for me and I even had a math tutoring class for like five or six years. Come to college and I’ve taken stats in three different forms… so good. Anyways I just felt like it would be easier for me to speak about my development as a student as I grow up. I know this will be repeating myself but I think I’m going to go about my speech by starting with the bad things and how i have struggled, continue to the ways you help yourself and how there are different ways for different people and then end on a note on how their is a way for everyone to get to a better point for themselves with their school work and if not, there are also other options.