My Learning Experiences: Lessons Learned

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Learning experiences can make you change a certain way, adapt to something, or become stable depending on varies of people. Thinking about how things are now, my learning cheese has changed dramatically in and outside of school. From when I was still in elementary school learning my alphabets, to middle school where I my first experience with different class periods, to high school where I learned how to adapt to school work along with friends, and to becoming a first year Spartan. These experiences affected my life in a tremendous way, and it caused me to adapt to things I once never wanted to. Sometimes change can be great for a person, but it’s up to the person to let that change happen. Kind of like how I let that change, change me as a …show more content…
It was very hard to adapt to in middle school because the school was bigger and everything just seemed so huge to me at the time compared to my previous school. During this time, I would consider myself as Hem. I was scared and definitely afraid of meeting new people, making friends, and learning differently. I didn’t want to change myself because I didn’t know what could be next. I was scared to make mistakes, scared to do something I never done before, but most of all, scared to change. Soon I became the total opposite of who I was in elementary school. I became lazy with my work and I always waited for the last second to finish or start something. I was becoming Hem, denying new changes that were hitting me. I wanted to become myself again, but yet, I didn’t take any action. It took some time until I realized what I was becoming. Sometimes I would question myself, “Is this who I want to be? Should I let the changes change me?” These questions haunted me almost every day, until one day, I decided to change myself. I opened my eyes and saw what I wanted to be. I wanted to be me! Saviay! Not someone else, not Hem, but Saviay! The Saviay who would always finish things on time. When I finally realized this, I quickly changed myself and found new ways to make friends, to be more social, to learn easier by studying differently, reading

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