Earning a grade that was not an A or B for the first time throughout my school years. During my first semester of junior year, my grades were flipped upside down. I was earning lower grades than usual, due to my horrible work habits at that time. Yet, that wasn’t the problem. The beginning of the school year, I was having a lot of personal issues going on and didn’t know how to handle it myself. Soon, I became frustrated and became even more depressed that I eventually gave up the fight. It was then that I began to blame all my personal issues, that they were affecting my academic work performances. I kept denying the fact that my failures in school were due to my lack of not working hard enough. When the semester ended, I ended up with a grade
