Moving from Egypt to Texas changed my life by leaving everything behind and coming to a strange new place trying to adapt the new culture, language, and life. I came in 7th grade with my mom, dad, and younger brother leaving all my friends and family behind. I am now more independent, determined to reach my goals, and persistent. At first, it was very difficult, especially that I came with very little English and I was very quiet. It was very hard to get good grades when you do not know what is happening in class and the whole school system was different from what I was used to. Year by year my grades improve which shows on my high school transcript, I raised my GPA from a 2 to 3.6 after a lot of hard work.
After not being able to join the International baccalaureate program (IB) or the dual credit program at my high school, I decided to pump up my Texas Success …show more content…
I was worried about my grade or graduating late, it was very stressful. I had no problem with my grades before, even though I worked 28 hours during the weekends for about a year along with going to school 5 days a week, but I did not know if I could keep the same grades after the surgery since I was going to be home bound for a whole 6 weeks for recovery. It was a very hard decision for me to take, I went to talk to my high school council to see what`s going to happen on my next trimesters schedule, he suggested to take easier classes than the ones I planned to take since I had on mind advanced anatomy and physiology, Spanish 3, AP art, Government, and advanced computer science. My whole schedule changed and I wasn`t apple to take the classes I wanted, I ended up changing Spanish 3, AP art, and computer science but I insisted to stay in Advanced anatomy and physiology since at the time I had medical school in mind even though the teacher did not recommend it at all I still took the
After not being able to join the International baccalaureate program (IB) or the dual credit program at my high school, I decided to pump up my Texas Success …show more content…
I was worried about my grade or graduating late, it was very stressful. I had no problem with my grades before, even though I worked 28 hours during the weekends for about a year along with going to school 5 days a week, but I did not know if I could keep the same grades after the surgery since I was going to be home bound for a whole 6 weeks for recovery. It was a very hard decision for me to take, I went to talk to my high school council to see what`s going to happen on my next trimesters schedule, he suggested to take easier classes than the ones I planned to take since I had on mind advanced anatomy and physiology, Spanish 3, AP art, Government, and advanced computer science. My whole schedule changed and I wasn`t apple to take the classes I wanted, I ended up changing Spanish 3, AP art, and computer science but I insisted to stay in Advanced anatomy and physiology since at the time I had medical school in mind even though the teacher did not recommend it at all I still took the