All throughout my school career, starting all the way in elementary school, school came very easy for me. I found that I rarely had to try hard at anything because it seems like I just knew it. With very little studying I was able to maintain high grades. In middle school I was put in advance math classes and it still wasn't a challenge but then in my junior year of high school things started to get difficult.…
During my junior year at Stephen Decatur High School, I was enrolled in American Literature with Mrs. Moore. At first I thought she was a hard teacher because she made us write a lot. I enjoyed writing creative pieces, but in her class she gave us a prompt or we had to analyze a text and prove how the author believed in the American Dream or not. The first essay we wrote I scored a 29 out of 30 and was proud of myself because English has not always been my strongest subject. Our next assignment was on The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.…
Finally, I was trying my best to pass sixth grade. Considering my distractions I had failing grades in every class. Once my parents became very disappointed in me because of their high expectations for me, I felt terrible. Knowing I failed them made me mad at myself so I tried my best to at least pass grade.…
During my junior year I experienced failure. I had taken 3 AP classes and I was in cheer at my high school, and trying to figure out a balance between the two was difficult for me because it seemed like cheer took up a lot of my time and in the past other two years it had, but I had managed to still do well in my honors and AP classes. My junior year was another story, I struggled a lot at the beginning of the school year, and most of first semester was spent with me having an F sometimes more than one, and that was a failure to me because I had my heart set on going to a four college or university and I knew that if i had an F i wouldnt qualify.…
Please wait for me to catch up to reality. Trust me, I’m trying, but when life moves as fast as it does, it becomes too late and I miss out on yet again another possibility. Please wait for me to think of a half-hearted excuse as to why I can't go out tonight because telling someone that I want to lay in bed and stare at the ceiling isn’t the best excuse. Please bear with me.…
I am currently taking ACA which is a college level class. This class will help me prepare for test, taking notes, and managing my time. So far I have learned how to do each one of these a lot better than before. I feel like when I get in college I will be prepared than I would have been without taking this class.…
During middle school, I was not the best student. I did not try my best. But the minute that I entered high school, I knew that I wanted to work hard and do well. I am a year ahead in both my math and science courses. One of the high points in my academic career was when I raised my biology grade for a B to an A. This is a very hard class…
I lost motivation and just trying to do anything was hard. I have never really had to face failure before and that was my first memorable failure. My way of coping was jumping into work. I worked myself to the bone at my job and then decided it was time to try again without putting enough thought and planning into…
Imagine waking up to a dreary day. Clouds fill the sky, and you rumble through your routine for school. Walking through the front door, you see the sunlight thinking it’s a good sign that the day won’t be as gray as you thought it would be. But, you have a concussion, and this means that peak of sunlight, has given you an instant headache before your first brain-draining task of the day. Most people think of a concussion as a minor headache, However, it is a serious head injury experienced by many, and it alters the focus you most take for granted.…
This class was Honors Chemistry, it was extremely difficult and I tried everything I could possibly do to try to be successful in that class. I did extra homework, staying after school, and staying up remarkably late just to try to understand a concept that others seemed to fathom so easily. The feeling of failure from not doing strong in this class made me feel as if I could never understand this class. The feeling of failure for anyone is not an enjoyable feeling, it mostly can cause a stress on your life, when you know you are able to succeed. I decided to take the initiative and try as hard as I can to bring my grade up with the final exam.…
Being told I should have no hope to improve by one of my teachers made things so much worse. It took a semester of sophomore year for me to realize what I was doing to myself, why I was failing. I had realized…
In January my drive to get out of Crafton by passing all my class was strong but then after the weeks going by it just took a tow on me. I won’t know if I passed my anatomy until tomorrow or Monday. Which is going to be feel like an eternity. My thoughts are still strong about passing all my class, but I’m mentally exhausted. The reason I felt so strong about this is because I can suffer now or I suffer my whole life working a minimum paid job.…
I earned an 80 out of 100 on part one of the midterm. I didn’t study because the time I had allotted to do so was replaced with an emergency at work. I’m very happy to receive an 80 on something I wasn’t truly prepared for. It brought my previous grade of 99 to a 95. I am not surprised to have a good grade in this class.…
Calculus was by far my hardest class during my senior year. During this year I felt that all my other classes got easier, except from math. I got a sense that I was going to breeze by senior year and so my work ethic dropped tremendously. However, I still knew I couldn’t let my grades drop for the first semester of senior year and I was able to get a B. After first semester, my other classes got even easier but math kept getting harder and my work ethic kept dropping.…
“What we think, we become,” - Buddha. There are plenty of things I look forward to fulfilling in my life. In highschool I plan to hold nothing less then a B-, in college I want to prepare myself for my career, I will work hard to obtain my dream job and deliver all other goals I dream of doing. As a sophomore in high school, I still have two more years left to achieve my high school goals.…