Personal Narrative: My High School Career

Though I am not even half way through my high school career, I feel as if I can still be a help to those who are just beginning. High school is probably the most important part of your life that you are responsible for in our teenage years, so it is important not to mess it up. There are a few concepts that I have figured out by myself that I wished someone would have told me. Those of which include never procrastinate, think about your future, learn how to manage your time, and do not settle for less than your best. My first recommendation is that you don’t procrastinate. It can be single handedly the worst thing you could do for yourself. It will cause you to not be able to give your best and make you lose a lot of sleep. Even though I have been known to type my best papers burning the midnight oil, it still adds a lot of unneeded stress. Those late nights typing the papers that were assigned a week ago are not all that tough, but the next mornings are. On one hand, you finish the assignment. But on the other, you are tired all of the next day, so it becomes more difficult to focus and to learn. Studies have shown that if you stay up the night before a test, you will not do as well as you …show more content…
It infers that you should settle for something that is close to what you were going for but not the actual goal. That saying needs to be adjusted to say, “Shoot for the moon, but bring more ammo for adjustments.” My baseball coach always tells us that the phrase “good enough” is ruining our generation; I agree. I see it all the time, people settling for something that is not as good as the original goal. What I recommend is to do your best; and if you do mess up along the way, be ready to correct yourself and finish what you started. In other words, if you get a B but are trying to get an A, do everything you can to fix