Educational History Narrative
Growing up, school was never my number one priority. Getting by and always doing the bare minimum was okay with me. As long as I passed, I didn’t care. Little did I know, freshmen year had a rude awakening for me. I had zero motivation to even get out of bed in the mornings. I hated school and I hated being there. In the middle of the freshman year, I had a meeting with the assistant principal and a teacher I had never spoken to before. They tried to tell me how important school was and that I needed to put forth the effort. Of course being my naive self, I didn’t listen. Looking back at it now, I wish I would’ve. The end of the school year was approaching which meant exams were right around the corner. I took my exams and passed all of my classes except for one.
This lead me into my sophomore year. I still didn’t want to go to school. This time, I started off the school year decent. That didn’t last long. Before I knew it, it was time to apply for MVCTC. Of course you had to have a certain grade point average to be accepted. I however, did not …show more content…
I took all of my exams early to go on family vacation the week before school let out so I did not get my report card until after everyone else already had. When I drove to the school to pick up my report card, for the first time, I wasn’t worried about my grades. I was super excited to see how strong I ended this school year. When I got to the school, I ran into the office. Mrs. Spencer told me to go ahead and get mine out of the stack. I rummaged through the stack of papers looking for my report card. When I found it, I looked at my grades. I looked at the bottom of the page, where I saw a little box. Inside that little box said, “Congratulations for making Honor Roll!” I looked at it for a second before it registered with me. I had never seen anything like that before. I instantly called my mom to tell her the good
Growing up, school was never my number one priority. Getting by and always doing the bare minimum was okay with me. As long as I passed, I didn’t care. Little did I know, freshmen year had a rude awakening for me. I had zero motivation to even get out of bed in the mornings. I hated school and I hated being there. In the middle of the freshman year, I had a meeting with the assistant principal and a teacher I had never spoken to before. They tried to tell me how important school was and that I needed to put forth the effort. Of course being my naive self, I didn’t listen. Looking back at it now, I wish I would’ve. The end of the school year was approaching which meant exams were right around the corner. I took my exams and passed all of my classes except for one.
This lead me into my sophomore year. I still didn’t want to go to school. This time, I started off the school year decent. That didn’t last long. Before I knew it, it was time to apply for MVCTC. Of course you had to have a certain grade point average to be accepted. I however, did not …show more content…
I took all of my exams early to go on family vacation the week before school let out so I did not get my report card until after everyone else already had. When I drove to the school to pick up my report card, for the first time, I wasn’t worried about my grades. I was super excited to see how strong I ended this school year. When I got to the school, I ran into the office. Mrs. Spencer told me to go ahead and get mine out of the stack. I rummaged through the stack of papers looking for my report card. When I found it, I looked at my grades. I looked at the bottom of the page, where I saw a little box. Inside that little box said, “Congratulations for making Honor Roll!” I looked at it for a second before it registered with me. I had never seen anything like that before. I instantly called my mom to tell her the good