Not all academic classes have been easy for me. Math continues to challenge me each year, I have gone the extra mile to continue to challenge myself in this area and seek additional assistance when necessary.…
The hardest thing I’ve ever went through? Let me take you back to almost three years ago to a very cold Thursday morning in January. I was sitting in history class when suddenly something very strange happened; the announcement speakers came on. To most people it would seem like it was a very typical day to day event to listen to announcements; but at my school announcements were rarely ever said. My classroom got completely silent; to the point where you could have heard a pin drop.…
I have always struggled with my grades. It was hard balancing grades and extracurricular activities. Over the past couple of years I have set goals for myself in my classes. I always pushed myself to work my hardest even in classes that I felt I'm not naturally skilled at like math. But for some reason I was compelled to take Pre-Calculus.…
I was so embarrassed that my 5th grade cousins were doing better than I was. Having a fixed mindset and keeping myself from learning has cost me. I scored 9 on the math placement test and I am currently taking LERN49. However, I do not see this as a setback. Looking back on my Jr High self, I realized it wasn’t that I could not understand algebra, I just did not want to.…
What changes for MCbride is he starts to realizes that he can’t stay on the corner his whole life,he realizes that he has to try to make something out of himself. The moment that starts to define him was when he was almost killed messing around at the gas station. If I said I never fail i’d be lying,One example of my failure is when I Failed my Algebra class. I learned that Algebra is extremally extremally hard to learn when A teacher isn’t good at their job and what It takes to be willing even when not willing. I was willing even when I was not because I knew I had to try even if i didn’t get it at all.…
Math has always come fairly easily to me, starting when I took Algebra 1 as a seventh grader. I’ve excelled many years, even going into my school’s math and science program where the students are given honors math and science classes from ninth grade through twelfth grade. I’ve always been a step ahead in math so that is how I was able to enroll in calculus last year. Everyone else in my class was going to take BC Calculus so I thought I should too, I could handle it if they could.…
I received a 68%, and it was my worst mark in any class all year. This was the point in time when I knew that I was never going to be great at math. I thought to myself that I should stick too what I am good at which is History, Geography, French. But no, that summer I made a vow to myself that I would average an over 90% in all of my courses. Secondly, going into the grade 8 exam season, I knew I had something to prove to my parents, my friends, and especially myself.…
In fact, I experienced almost nothing but failure in Algebra I in eighth grade . Math has always been my weakest subject, so when Algebra I rolled around, I was set up for failure. My quiz grades were ghastly. My test grades were horrific. I couldn’t even do the daily warm-up problems.…
I was an average middle schooler: average in sports, academics, and in confidence. Being average caused me to doubt my abilities and have a negative view of myself. This took a turn, however, when I tested into Algebra a year early during the beginning of eighth grade. When this happened, I felt above average, like I was finally excelling at something. This didn’t last long because Algebra was a tough class that tested my abilities and my mind to their capacity.…
High school changes people. They express themselves, become opinionated, and they start to look at the world differently as they experience things they have never encountered before. A wise Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.” This quote is an excellent way to describe my experience in high school.…
I am a very caring, wholehearted, hard worker. In middle school I struggled with math. I was brought down into the slower classes. The ones for the students who needed more help than the others. I was teased and mocked for being in the “dumb” class as they called it.…
Even though I had trouble with reading I was always good at math and I liked it quite a bit. Math always came pretty easy to me. But even though I was good at math that didn't help me with my freshman year because I had a hard time adjusting to high school and it affected my grades quite a bit, wasn't failing any of my classes but my grades were not where they should have been. But by my second semester, I was back on the honor roll but my GPA was affected the first semester. When I started my sophomore year I knew I was going to have to work hard to get my cumulative GPA up because I wanted to go to college.…
I remember my days in high school like it was yesterday. My freshman year I didn’t really know anyone at my school because I was new to the area. Once the school year got started I began to make friends and to be known around the school. So as most people say now I look like a basketball player, back in my younger days I used to play all sports like basketball, football, and baseball. So I had decided to try out for the basketball team.…
I used to love math all the way up until my middle school years. The simple adding and subtracting was always more fun and easier to do compared to the other subjects I had. Though, when it came to learning the much harder stuff, multiplication tables, I was never able to engrave all of them in my head. Memorizing them was no help either because I knew that I would forget them in time. I taught myself how to find the answer differently.…
Personal Narrative I have been to three different schools throughout my entire life. These schools have shaped me into what i am today. I have always thought that everything happens for a reason. Going to these three different schools has led me to where I am today. I’ve experienced a lot throughout the past couple of years.…