{"id":12591,"date":"2021-01-07T21:13:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T21:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=12591"},"modified":"2021-01-07T21:13:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T21:13:04","slug":"student-spotlight-junior-andrea-iturbe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=12591","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight: Junior Andrea Iturbe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Top 10 student is former District Spelling Bee finalist in elementary and middle schools.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parents: <\/strong>Bertha Aguirre and Edmundo Iturbe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previous schools attended: <\/strong>Olmito Elementary and Resaca Middle School<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colleges considering: <\/strong>Texas A&M University or The University of Texas at Austin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Major considering: <\/strong>Biology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Career considering: <\/strong>Teacher or university professor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Class rank:<\/strong> Top 10 student in Class of 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extracurricular activities:<\/strong> Band (3 years), DECA (2 years), NHS, UIL Literary Criticism, and Prose, Color Guard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previous activities:<\/strong> Runner-up in Los Fresnos CISD Spelling Bee in 5th, 6th, and 8th grades<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspiration for academic success: <\/strong>My parents have encouraged and inspired me since elementary school to try my best in school instead of only half-trying, which helped me to keep my grades high and strive to be better. By the time I got to middle school, academics began to be competitive with the idea of the Top 10 students and I joined clubs that enticed competition as well. At this point, my inspiration stemmed from the possibility of recognition and personal merit, and knowing that I have the capability to always improve and be better than the previous year has driven me to keep practicing and studying so I can earn better grades and perform better than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Challenges overcome:<\/strong> One of the biggest challenges I\u2019ve had to overcome has always been perfectionism. I always want to be the best at what I do and get the highest grades and be perfect at everything, but realistically speaking it\u2019s just not always possible, and it\u2019s taken me a while to learn to be okay with that. I still struggle quite a bit with the idea of not getting something 100% right the first time and I place a lot of pressure on myself to have everything I do be at the highest caliber, which unfortunately spirals into stress, anxiety, and overworking to compensate for what feels like lost time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Band activities: <\/strong>I love the band and the progress I\u2019ve made throughout the years to get to where I\u2019m at today; the experiences I\u2019ve had and the people I\u2019ve met are irreplaceable and I wouldn\u2019t give them up for anything else. I did, at one point, consider music education as a career but be taking a different path in college. However, I still do not want to let go of music entirely and I hope that I can still hold onto it in either a formal concert setting or just as a personal hobby to keep track of my own improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Balancing school activities and academics: <\/strong>I try my best to dedicate as much time as I can to practicing and improving my skills in academics and extracurriculars, but sometimes I need to dedicate maximum time to everything at once and that\u2019s when prioritization and time management come into play. I typically dedicate certain times of the day to certain activities and try to do as much as possible in that chunk of time so that I can make more progress on other activities at a later time. I\u2019ve also recently adopted a habit of writing due dates out in a planner so that I can visualize my time and prioritize my workload to still be able to practice music and compete in UIL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possible careers: <\/strong>I think I decided on the education career path because it\u2019s something I\u2019ve been doing almost my whole life. When I learned English in Pre-Kinder, I began helping others learn the language, and more recently in AP Physics and Pre-Calculus, I\u2019ve helped other students with the concepts as well. Teaching and explaining come easy to me when it\u2019s a subject I\u2019m well-versed in and I find so much joy in being able to help someone understand a topic that may not have made sense before. I find biology and genetics fascinating because I like understanding how and why we exist the way we do, and I hope that one day I can share that knowledge with other people, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Top 10 student is former District Spelling Bee finalist in elementary and middle schools. Parents: Bertha Aguirre and Edmundo Iturbe Previous schools attended: Olmito Elementary and Resaca Middle School Colleges considering: Texas A&M University or The University of Texas at Austin Major considering: Biology Career considering: Teacher or university professor Class rank: Top 10 student in Class of 2022 Extracurricular activities: Band […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lfcisd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12592,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591\/revisions\/12592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}