Reflective Essay: My Junior Year

Ever since my first AP course, sophomore year, I disliked anything that had to with the class for “advanced students.” It was not that the teachers were awful and putrid, but rather that I was the one who despised the rigor and work that came with becoming a full blown AP scholar. However, my junior year was quite different. I was still in AP courses, but I got to taste the sweetness of dual credit classes, as well as the fun that came with it.
Dual credit classes are college courses by which a high school student enrolls in and receives simultaneous credit for the course from both the college and the high school. I quickly learned my first semester that these courses were straightforward and obviously a win-win no matter what. The only thing …show more content…
Day, and take her dual credit class. As I thought to myself, “this isn’t a hard choice, I love Ms. Day, she’s astonishing, awe-inspiring, and breath-takingly great at what she does. However, when I asked some of my friends who took her class their senior year, they warned me that it was not going to be a simple walk through the park like my other dual credit classes had been. If I were to take this course, it would be overwhelming, and I would need to spend many hours typing up papers rather than using that precious time playing my favorite video games, or watching Netflix. As one might see, this was quite a problem I had on my hands! To add to my confusion, I heard that half of my friends were taking the AP course, saying that it would be easier for them to “pass the test, than to pass the class.” I stood there thinking to myself, “Why does this have to be so hard? Dual credit is supposed to be easy, like taking a health class freshman year!” or that is what I was led to believe. Be that as it may, I would soon find out that I could not have been more wrong in my