Personal Narrative: My Junior Year In High School

In the Spring of last year, it was my Junior year, one of the most critical years in high school. It’s the year that colleges look at the most, also it was the year that I was in some of the most challenging classes. Mostly honors, a lot of homework, and tests to go along with it. Studying would take me until late at night, and even on weekends, all day long. When it’s the end of the term everyone checks their grades for their report cards, and progress reports. One day when I went to check my grades, I saw one that I was not very ecstatic about. It was my first D and it made me not only devastated but had the feeling of failure. It was a long day and night thinking about where I could have went wrong, how I was going to show my parents and what I was …show more content…
This class was Honors Chemistry, it was extremely difficult and I tried everything I could possibly do to try to be successful in that class. I did extra homework, staying after school, and staying up remarkably late just to try to understand a concept that others seemed to fathom so easily. The feeling of failure from not doing strong in this class made me feel as if I could never understand this class. The feeling of failure for anyone is not an enjoyable feeling, it mostly can cause a stress on your life, when you know you are able to succeed. I decided to take the initiative and try as hard as I can to bring my grade up with the final exam. One of my friends had the same exact class I did and I decided to ask her how she was doing in the same class. “Katie! I almost failed chemistry completely this term what do I even do?!” I said this to her in a choked voice. Katie said, “Olivia everyone has a subject that they struggle in, mine is science as well, but that means I just have to try just as hard as everyone else.” I start to become serene. I take in everything she