Personal Narrative: How Homework Changed My Life

There was a time when I had given up on school. During my sophomore year of highschool I got a job working at a fast food restaurant. Earning money for a college and a car was a priority for me. I had a goal of having enough money to buy a car by the end of the year. My grades were pretty much A’s and B’s. I was balancing school and work just fine. I was getting enough time to do my homework and I was getting enough sleep. The job was easy, taking customer's orders and cleaning up. The hardest part of the job was closing up when everything had to be cleaned. Once junior year came along I started having problems. My grades were dropping at a fast rate, I was getting no sleep, and I was being bombarded with school work. My grade point average when from a three point four to …show more content…
Laziness consumed me. I would somedays just go straight to sleep and would just take a zero for homework. I got used to not doing my school work and staying up all night. I was getting horrible homework grades and my test grades were even worse. On top of getting bad grades I was not getting any sleep some nights. I started not care about school. I lost my grip on everything and I was starting to doubt my future success. I had lost my way and did not know how to get back on track. I have never had problems with school before, all my live I had been an A and B student. Right before I was on the edge of failing I decided to work less and to focus on school more. I passed junior year by a hair. During the summer I quit my job in hopes of redirecting myself to the right path. Without hard work, success will not happen and with the right mindset you can achieve any goal. A world of possibilities were now open for me. Distractions are the worst thing to have when you are a teen, it will help you lose your sense of direction. Not only did I learn about balance and how to keep it, I learned that education comes first before