Personal Narrative: My B In Chemistry

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During my sophomore year of high school, I was going through a really tough patch. Even though the classes that I took were challenging, but it wasn’t something that I couldn’t handle. My first semester started out fine since I was on the track to a 4.0 GPA. However, I suddenly developed this “I don’t care” attitude about school and my academic skills began to drop. As a result, my Precalculus Honors grade for Semester #1 turned out to be a C. It was devastating since I thought of math to be my best subject. My B in Chemistry didn’t surprise me because I didn’t take Chemistry to be my best subject. Ever since the C in Precalculus, my apathetic attitude was fueled by the disappointment of my grade.

It came to no surprise that my grades for

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