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Frank's Final HTML Project

Achievements

Academic Achievements

Throughout his life, Frank has made several achievements in regards to his academic success. Here are just a few:

High School Placement and Graduation

Frank graduated from Union Highschool in not only with honors, but as the third highest ranked student in his class of 143.

Highschool Honor Band Placements

While Frank was in his highschool years, he also honed his musical talents, and the biggest and most prominent way to express his progress as a musician was to audition for and participate in honor band clinics. Throughout his years as a student musician Frank auditioned and participated in several of these clinics. However the crux of these achievements are when he auditioned for and obtained First Chair in both the county honor band in and all district honor band in .

Acceptance into University and Music Program

Towards the end of his highschool career, Frank decided that he wanted to pursue music in a professional capacity. In he traveled to Blacksburg, VA to audition for a spot in the music education program at Virginia Tech. He would find out several months later that he was successful in this endeavor; not only cementing his place in higher education, but the arts as well.

Graduation from College

Frank's time in university was one riddled with ups, downs, and everything in between. In the summer of 2016, Frank made the (potentially stupid) decision to take 18 credit hours over the break. It was hard, arduous work, however he was successful. This allowed Frank to graduate a semester early, officially earning his BS in Psychology on .

Personal Goals

Outside of his academic endeavors, Frank is also working on several achievements in his personal life as well:

Getting Physically Fit

For years, Frank has dreamed of becoming, as the youth would say, buff. Despite his aspirations of being physically thicc, several factors would often prevent Frank from making this goal of his a reality. However, in Frank was finally able to commit to improving his physical health.

Improving his Mental Health

As previously mentioned, his mental health was always something of a pain point for Frank throughout his life. However in , after a series of rather substantial setbacks, Frank decided to firmly take his mental well-being in his own hands. The road has been long, and it will never truly end, but this is certainly an achievement he has found worthy of chasing.

Learning to Code

The prospect of learning programming languages had always been a daunting prospect for Frank. In 2023 he attempted to learn Python with little more than a borrowed book and a good deal of moxy. Unfortunately this attempt did not end favorably. Luckily he had a wonderful friend who offered to show him the wonders of JavaScript and HTML and on Frank's journey as a developer began.