It wasn’t until I was entering my freshman year of high school that a challenge became almost immediately life changing. Feeling as though I was climbing a mountain; not knowing if I was going to successfully make it to the top. Feeling like I was crossing a road; unknowing of what was going to be on the other side. Never had anything been so scary or so difficult to execute.
I walked in to the school. Frightened and hesitant. There were hundreds of people, standing around and talking like a flock of birds waiting to take off. I had never seen so many people in one building. I attended a small school of about 600 people with a class size of approximately 75 people for 8 years of my life and came into a school about the size of a small Texas …show more content…
I had never gone through such an impactful change in my life since my parents divorced when I was young and my life had been favorably consistent up to this point. Though it was difficult, I am glad I went through this experience. It made me a better student and a harder worker. The courses in public school were different than what I had come to know and, suffice to say, much more difficult. I was forced to push myself to entirely new limits, making myself work harder than I ever had before. And through this, I found new strengths and weaknesses. I established my intelligence as being something higher than I ever thought it was. I was pushed out of my comfort-zone, forced to interact with the other students and reach out to my teachers when experiencing troubles with the course work – something I never had to do before. In latterly discovering my strengths, I did the same with my weaknesses, finding that some were bad habits hard to break. However, this didn’t stop me. I combined my intellectual strength with my weaknesses and realized an entirely unknown work ethic coming to surface. The transition to public school and having to undergo high-pressure activities and classes provided me the ability to find my diligence and perseverance as a student and individual. This would come back to help me in my later high school years as an AP student and having to manage school and a part-time job at the same
I walked in to the school. Frightened and hesitant. There were hundreds of people, standing around and talking like a flock of birds waiting to take off. I had never seen so many people in one building. I attended a small school of about 600 people with a class size of approximately 75 people for 8 years of my life and came into a school about the size of a small Texas …show more content…
I had never gone through such an impactful change in my life since my parents divorced when I was young and my life had been favorably consistent up to this point. Though it was difficult, I am glad I went through this experience. It made me a better student and a harder worker. The courses in public school were different than what I had come to know and, suffice to say, much more difficult. I was forced to push myself to entirely new limits, making myself work harder than I ever had before. And through this, I found new strengths and weaknesses. I established my intelligence as being something higher than I ever thought it was. I was pushed out of my comfort-zone, forced to interact with the other students and reach out to my teachers when experiencing troubles with the course work – something I never had to do before. In latterly discovering my strengths, I did the same with my weaknesses, finding that some were bad habits hard to break. However, this didn’t stop me. I combined my intellectual strength with my weaknesses and realized an entirely unknown work ethic coming to surface. The transition to public school and having to undergo high-pressure activities and classes provided me the ability to find my diligence and perseverance as a student and individual. This would come back to help me in my later high school years as an AP student and having to manage school and a part-time job at the same