Overcoming Myself In Middle School

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Throughout my education, I may have not encountered serious mental or physical setbacks, but I did have to endure myself. I was the biggest challenge in my high school and middle school career, and it was a hard challenge to overcome. I believe that I am still overcoming myself.
Now, you may be asking yourself how I could be the greatest challenge to myself. Wasn’t there something else? No, it was simply myself. I have set immense standards in order to satisfy my main goal: having a 4.0. It was tough to maintain high grades, but high grades was an expectation I thought I had to meet. If I got a B on a test, I would think I could never be accepted into college. As I look back on that mindset today, I realize that I had hyperbolized the extent

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