A Difficult Experience Analysis

My first two years of high school felt pretty easy for me, even with the honors and AP courses I had taken. In fact, they felt a little too easy. I was raised to always challenge myself and do my best, but try not to fail. If the first two years felt easy, I wasn't challenging myself, therefore I was failing myself. I decided to step it up and face my most difficult challenge my junior year of high school.
During the summer, between my sophomore and junior year, I decided to get ahead a course by taking trigonometry/precalculus. This allowed me to take AP calculus my junior year; on top of this, I decided to push myself and take on three other AP courses. Taking one AP course my sophomore year to taking four AP courses my junior year was definitely

My parents wanted to help me out and try to help me understand the material, but it was no help because they didn't understand it themselves. My parents never finished high school, so the material was too complex for them and I was left alone to deal with this challenge. My brother would be the only one who could have possibly helped me since he took AP calculus, but he was away at college. I knew I had to deal with this challenge and I need to act fast if I didn't want to fail my classes. There were too many things I wanted to do such as get good grades and keep my social/outside life intact. I ended up giving up sleep to keep all of the things around me that truly mattered. Discipline, hard work, dedication, and a lot of sleepless night studying the material helped me out. My math teacher was available after school for about an hour if anybody needed help, so I went to him. I used my available resources, a math teacher and the books, to help me out. At the end of a sleepless year, I was able to keep my outside life and earned those good grades I desperately had chased after; including an A in