Sophomore Year I Study Chemistry

The periodic table and I will never get along. Sophomore year I decided to take Chemistry and I felt positive that I would love it since its science and it had a little of math involved. However, I began to realize that chemistry was not for me when second quarter came along. In the beginning of the year I thought that the class was going to be pretty easy and that I would love it, but my thoughts changed on me.
In chemistry class the students were very smart and they all had high level classes compared to mine, so it made me feel out of place and stupid. I would see how the students would interact to the lesson that were being taught and many would finish worksheets under minutes while I would be in the first problems struggling to answer them. I would ask my partners for help, but I wouldn't fully understand when they would explain to me. In class we had many group work and it was slightly hard for me to participate in them mainly because the material that we were being taught wasn’t so clear to me. I would feel embarrassed and useless due to the fear that I would say something wrong and I wouldn’t help much. Whenever we would have a quiz or test I would try my hardest to pass and get a decent grade, I would always look over my notes to study and memorize the steps to solving the problems, but somehow every time the test was handed out …show more content…
The days the teacher would pass back tests or quizes I would immediately see my score, flip my paper and put it in my spiral notebook so no one would