Goals are a thing every person has, whether it’d be for academics or personal hobbies, like achieving good grades or finally being able to tie a Palomar knot when going out to fish. As for students entering high school, or already being apart of it, their goals lie around their academical achievements, just like the Zachary Fishel.

Upon asking Zachary Fishel what his overall goal of this school year was wanting to have a 4.0 GPA. Like many other students at Sunlake High, he wants to maintain good grades and have a decent GPA. Many students achieve this by attending school and joining programs, while some others like Zachary himself strive to get good grades by studying. After questioning his confidence in following through with studying and achieving the grades he wants to have and maintain, and if he has anything he needs to improve in regarding academics, he claims to have been, in his own words, “a slow worker” and is working towards being a more productive person.

With Goals comes obstacles, and it could range from lack of motivation, to feeling like the entire world is against you. An obstacle Zachary Fishel feels that he will face is his teachers assigning too much work for him to keep up with and prioritize. He said a way that he could navigate such an obstacle would be to ask for help from a peer or seek guidance from an instructor.

When people complete or achieve a goal, whether it’d be short or long term, they feel a sense of accomplishment, or completion. This applies to Zachary Fishel as well; after asking how he would feel if he were to fulfill his goal of getting and maintaining good grades, he has said that he would’ve felt complete, or happy that he could carry through with this ambition.