Overcoming the Obstacles of Junior Year My junior year of high school was a real struggle for me. It was the most trying and challenging year of my entire school career. I started my junior year at a new school: Beech Grove High School. Beech Grove High was very different from any school that I had ever attended. Before Beech Grove, I attended Arsenal Technical High School. I was happy at Tech High School. All of my friends were there and I was doing well in school. At Beech Grove High, my grades started to drop tremendously; I just wasn’t doing well in school. Everyone was worried about me, myself included. I had never done so poorly in school before, I was very embarrassed. When people would ask how school was I would avoid answering because
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I was trying to get my grades in better shape but for the most part they stayed the same. It was like all of the effort I was putting in wasn’t enough. Towards the middle of the school year I really started worrying about whether or not I would get into college because of my grades. At that point, I really put my effort into overdrive to try and improve my grades the best I possibly could. Instead of working at my after school job, I took that time after school to go the local library to study and get work done and stay after school for help. Although there was some progress in my second semester grades, it wasn’t enough to really change my overall GPA because of first semester grades. At the end of the year, I passed the majority of my classes with D’s. Because of that, my GPA was lower than a 2.5; my GPA has always been a 3.0 plus. I still worry that I won’t get into college but I know that all I can do is pray and continue to do the best I can in my school career: high school and college. I had a rocky junior year but at the start of senior year I had hope that I would finish high school strong and prove to myself that I can do it. This year is a lot better for me; my grades are better and I
I was trying to get my grades in better shape but for the most part they stayed the same. It was like all of the effort I was putting in wasn’t enough. Towards the middle of the school year I really started worrying about whether or not I would get into college because of my grades. At that point, I really put my effort into overdrive to try and improve my grades the best I possibly could. Instead of working at my after school job, I took that time after school to go the local library to study and get work done and stay after school for help. Although there was some progress in my second semester grades, it wasn’t enough to really change my overall GPA because of first semester grades. At the end of the year, I passed the majority of my classes with D’s. Because of that, my GPA was lower than a 2.5; my GPA has always been a 3.0 plus. I still worry that I won’t get into college but I know that all I can do is pray and continue to do the best I can in my school career: high school and college. I had a rocky junior year but at the start of senior year I had hope that I would finish high school strong and prove to myself that I can do it. This year is a lot better for me; my grades are better and I