Senior Year Reflection

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Senior Reflection

Through the last thirteen years of my life I have had my good and bad times during school. Most of the times have been good but some have been bad but I have always kept my head up and stuck it through to the end. Finally the end is near my Senior year and almost graduation time I could not be happier. I have come this far and the reward is right in front of me with that reward being my Diploma which states that I have defeated the American School System and Graduated with a higher sense of accomplishment and pride. Once you have your Diploma an employer is more likely to hire you which is a good thing because when you have a job you can do more than if you were a poor person which is most of the united states right now cause most of us are on the edge of poverty.

My Greatest Misconception about senior year was how much we would have to do in order to pass and graduate. Indian Valley High School requires all students to have four years of the main core classes and twenty hours of community service which would include any work for which we do not get paid. The main core classes are Language Arts, Science, Social Studies and Math and then they went and added an extra
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If you don’t do your work cause it is too hard and try to put it off it will just pile up and make it harder for you to graduate. You also don’t want to put it off because if you are not motivated you need to be motivated in order to pass your last couples years of school. What I am trying to say is do not be like me and procrastinate your work cause it will really come back to bite you towards the 3rd and 4th nine weeks when grades really count. If you procrastinate you run the risk of failing not to mention your GPA will drop significantly because just one year of bad grades can wreck your GPA and lower your chances of getting into the college of your

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