Personal Narrative: A Career In My High School Career

In my high school career, I have been terrible with grades in my freshman year. I slowly but surely started to pick them up, but I was not the smartest in school. I was a slow learner, didn’t really catch the material as fast as everybody else. That was a disadvantage for me because I was making up some classes while I had to handle my regular A-G classes. I can honestly say it was probably one of the most difficult times in high school. That was around the time where I wasn’t really interested in college because I thought it wasn’t for me. My junior year I realize that I wanted to do better in school and get into a university. I felt a drastic change from being an average student in my family that only gets a high school diploma to a really motivated student that wants to get a college degree. I started taking school much more seriously than I did before this change. I am extremely proud of the grades that I made up and up to now, I am still going to make up some classes. …show more content…
Improving my grades showed that I was gonna keep them up or just do better. It was also important to me because I would never visualize that I would have some pretty good grades on my transcript, not to mention that I took a political science class over the summer at El Camino College in Compton. I am now ahead in high school and college. I comprehend it is also important because I heard that schools look for those kinds of details in students, but that might be a rumor I am not to sure. In my opinion, it makes it look like I can already handle a college