Personal Narrative: Walking Through The Doors Of High School

Walking through the doors of high school was an adrenaline rush. Sitting in my first class with individuals of which I didn’t want to talk to, they were just school ‘friends’. The year progressed on, and homework started coming in flocks at a time. I never knew how to prepare myself for high school, but it wasn’t as awful as people that prepared me said it was. As the year came to a wrap I was ready and eager for the next. Throughout the year I gained techniques on how to get my homework done effectively and on time. Sophomore year came and it wasn’t quite the rude awakening, yet. I was in the complacency stage; I had moved from excitement of freshman year. I learned to care about my grades, because there would be consequences otherwise. Learning faster and understanding the criteria better made me not have an issue with doing my homework. …show more content…
Things started to take a twist with my attitude towards school, though. Junior year hit me hard, school work thrown left and right. Working lunch was not a fun place to be, just sitting in a classroom doing my late work while everyone is enjoying lunch with friends. I moved from complacency to detestation, ready to be DONE! Although this change occurred, I did not give up in school. My maturity became higher, I began to recognize how immature some people in my school were. I also learned that complaining will not help, that I just needed to get done. Senioritis is real, and being in the detestation stage makes it ten times worse. Freshman through senior year felt like an eternity, but making it through over half of it so far has given me motivation to finish it all