Kayleigh Underwood
All throughout my life, I have faced many challenges. Some were more difficult than others, but I believe all of them have shaped me into who I am today. If I could take one lesson I learned in high school and never forget it, it would be that my challenges and the outcomes to these challenges do not define me. What defines me is how I respond to these challenges.
Ever since I can remember, I have never excelled in math. It has always been one of my biggest challenges and the worst part about school. In elementary school, I remember sitting out at recess so I could do test corrections. I also remember staying after school in junior high almost every day so I could get some extra help. Every year of high school I was placed in a higher …show more content…
It wasn’t until the first few weeks of my senior year that my mindset about math began to change.
Right now, I am in an ERWC English class. We started off this year talking about our goals, career and college paths we want to take, and ironically- our challenges/failures we have had to overcome. Talking about all of these topics helped me realize why I have never excelled in math. The problem was something far more important than the difficulty of the math class. The problem was myself.
While in elementary school and junior high, I let myself get used to getting bad grades on tests and quizzes. By the time high school came around, I let myself accept the failure, before it even happened. I didn’t try because I thought
I already knew the outcome. That was the main problem. I got in the way of my own success. I thought the problems and work was impossible for my brain to understand and that’s why I wasn’t achieving what I wanted to. The truth is, I wasn’t achieving success because I didn’t believe in myself and I gave up way before I should have.
I consider myself lucky to have learned this lesson in high school so that
All throughout my life, I have faced many challenges. Some were more difficult than others, but I believe all of them have shaped me into who I am today. If I could take one lesson I learned in high school and never forget it, it would be that my challenges and the outcomes to these challenges do not define me. What defines me is how I respond to these challenges.
Ever since I can remember, I have never excelled in math. It has always been one of my biggest challenges and the worst part about school. In elementary school, I remember sitting out at recess so I could do test corrections. I also remember staying after school in junior high almost every day so I could get some extra help. Every year of high school I was placed in a higher …show more content…
It wasn’t until the first few weeks of my senior year that my mindset about math began to change.
Right now, I am in an ERWC English class. We started off this year talking about our goals, career and college paths we want to take, and ironically- our challenges/failures we have had to overcome. Talking about all of these topics helped me realize why I have never excelled in math. The problem was something far more important than the difficulty of the math class. The problem was myself.
While in elementary school and junior high, I let myself get used to getting bad grades on tests and quizzes. By the time high school came around, I let myself accept the failure, before it even happened. I didn’t try because I thought
I already knew the outcome. That was the main problem. I got in the way of my own success. I thought the problems and work was impossible for my brain to understand and that’s why I wasn’t achieving what I wanted to. The truth is, I wasn’t achieving success because I didn’t believe in myself and I gave up way before I should have.
I consider myself lucky to have learned this lesson in high school so that