Personal Narrative: My High School Journey

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Did you ever just look back at high school, and thought of your failures or success you had. Or what about the journey you had through your high school career. Well I have one quote that some what describes my high school career, “Procrastination is the thief of time”. This quote reflects my high school journey reflects my high school journey by how I act. I always leaved the important thing last. When given homework, I catch myself doing it in the last minute. I do important projects in the last days and I let laziness take over and decide not to do anything. I failed some classes from the way I think and do. I never seem to learn my lesson and keep my own promise. I waste precious time doing nothing when I can be doing something. I always tell myself that I’m going to change and focus on completing my assignments. I told myself the same thing the last two years and I still didn’t fully accomplished that goal. So my high school career was procrastination so far, I don’t want to continue procrastinating by senior year.
In my transcript, I have noticed in the first semester of my freshmen year I was doing well in my classes
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I’m already in the beginning of my third year of high school and already starting off bad. The things I can do this year is I can talk to my teachers more and ask for help. Another thing I can do is to talk to my counselor and ask if I’m in track in graduation or ask if I need some classes to take. I have already talked to my counselor before but I still need to ask more questions about my high school career. Last of all I need to change the way I think and act this school year. I need to expand my mind more and focus in the main important goal, to walk on that stage, get my high school diploma with my class, and go to college while the military pays for my school. By the next year I’ll be a senior and that is when stuff will get

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