Lucia Kruize has been a perfectionist for almost her entire life. When she is in high school, she took pride in her perfect attendance record. Her school had a system that would keep track of attendance, and had an overall percentage of how many classes students missed. Lucia wanted to keep her record at a perfect zero percent, and she did.

While it payed off to have this perfect record, it didn’t happen without stress. Lucia went to classes while being sick, and was so caught up in being perfect in her attendance that she would get extremely stressed if she was running late to school.

Her friends noticed her record and became very impressed, which only motivated Lucia to continue the streak. Lucia said that this has transferred into her life as a college student, and still has not skipped a single class, which can be very easy to do in a college environment. She even said that there were some days that she would try to tell herself to skip, and found herself walking to class anyways.

Lucia is not only a perfectionist when it comes to her attendance.

“It has affected me just being always on time for things and being very structured in my schedule. I’m a really big procrastinator but I wanted my assignments to be perfect,” Lucia said.

Her experience in high school caused her to become a perfectionist, and that has helped her do high quality work in everything she does.