College Admissions Essay: Getting Better Grades

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Getting Better Grades.
This year, I haven't had the best grades, failing almost every class until now, I realized that if I don't get my stuff together that I might get held back. And the thought of that made me want to work and get all my homework in and do the best I can on all graded work.

In the beginning of the year I goofed off A LOT. And doing that put me into a hole I couldn't dig myself out of, and at that point I wasn’t really worried, so in study hall and at home I would say “I don’t have homework” even when I did. My original study hall teacher Ms.Hageman would find out the next day and make me work on assignments, and wouldn’t let me on my computer until I had all late work done and handed in, getting low grades for the late work.

In the second quarter this happened again, saying “I don’t have homework” when I did, I would sit in the back of the room where I was able
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Right now my lowest it a D 63% In health, and my highest it a C- 73% in language. I will be able to keep my grades up, and my goal is to at least, get a B in any class, my bet is in language, if I do good enough on the last assignments we have before the year is over.

What this has taught me is to NOT mess around and to get work done and in ON TIME, and to get the best score I can get on the work. I plan to do much better in high school, I want to keep my grades up and to at least a C-, thats the lowest grade I want, anything other that, and I will spend all the time I have raising my grades so I can stay with my class and graduate in 2020. I like my class now and I don’t want to do anything stupid, like not turning in simple homework assignments and losing points, then turning it in a week later to see that I could have gotten an A, but instead, I’ll get a C or a

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