We all have failures in our lives, but for me the one that left the biggest impression was my experience in high school. Now I’ll be honest about not exactly being a scholar in school. My first two years of high school were pretty terrible (by most standards). I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life after high school. I just knew that I was planning on going to college for something and who knows what afterwards. I just skimmed by with decent to below average grades not really caring about what happens. It wasn’t until junior year of high school when I found what I loved to do and what I wanted to do with my life (programming and mostly anything computer related). Now that I had a reason to succeed per se, I started turn my life around …show more content…
This experience taught me many lessons that pertain not only to school, but life in general. The most important less being that failure isn’t the end. Would I like to go back and fix my first two years of high school and have a spectacular GPA and academic record? Yes! But, looking back, it taught me something that success could never teach me. That failure isn’t the end. My sister has always done well in school and now she is attending Purdue Lafayette for pharmacy. She hit her first wall in her academic career with bio-chemistry and failed the class, even though she worked very hard (trust me, she did). She acted like it was the end of career, that she could never achieve here dreams, and that it was an embarrassment to fail. Me looking at here situation, it wasn’t that big of a deal. Yes, you failed, but you tried your hardest. You need to get up and try again, not sit there and whine about the situation and do nothing about it. It does nothing for you. The reason I say that is because I was in that situation, but reversed. I started out failing, but got up and started to do something about it. Even though I was doing pretty bad, I was still able to recover a little of what I have loss in two years. This is the first slip up for her and she treated it like there was nothing she could do to fix
...I became so overwhelmed, thinking I could try and pick up my grades, but it was too late for me. I was then failing all of my classes. My mom would call me and check up on me, I would lie of course and tell her that I was doing well all while everything was crashing down on me. I lost all hope, I completely stopped caring. I didn’t even go to my final exams; I knew there was no hope for me. I dropped out. I messed up my GPA horribly. I took a year off and just gave myself some time to mature then reapplied for school at Chattahoochee.
My biggest accomplishment throughout high school so far has been learning how to fail. Not necessarily falling flat on my face in a viral video, but instead just barely coming up short and not being able to reach a goal, despite my best efforts. Although I was unaware of it at the time, failing my driver’s test on my first attempt would become a life altering incident.
Success isn’t given, it’s earned on the track, on the field, and in the gym with blood, sweat, and the occasional fear” -Unknown. This is relevant because it is hard for students to want to play sports but also to do well in school. If high school students can’t find the time to keep their grades up or to keep a certain GPA, they should not be allowed to play sports. Students need to prove themselves to be able to play any sport and still be able to do well in school. Also, having good grades shows the coach maturity and may earn them more playing time if they are working hard in school and in practice.
I concluded my 8th grade year with 9 a's and 5 b's, contrarily my 9th grade report card included 5 f's and 3 d's. "Your mistakes do not define who you are, you are your possibilities." - Oprah Winfrey. This quote reflects my high school journey because though I've made innumerable mistakes throughout high school thus far, and continue to make mistakes by not prioritizing my education, I refuse to give up and I will not let my mistakes make me.
All of my classes in high school I passed with no struggle. I would cram all the knowledge that I needed for a test the night before, so I thought college would not be any different. A week or two before my first ever college exam the professor announced that if we had not already been study, then we should start to right away. Being a young naive freshmen, I kind of blew the teacher off. Telling myself that I did not need to waste the next few weeks studying for one exam. So I waited until the last day to study. You might have an idea of what happened next. I failed the exam. Failing so bad that it would be nearly impossible for me to still get a C in the course. I could not even look at myself. The thought of disappointing my parents was making my stomach turn. This fear of failing the class was tearing me apart. The only chance at passing this class was if I turned myself into the perfect student. This meant turning things in on time, studying days in advance for exams, and going to my professor’s office hours. And that is exactly what I did. By some seriously hard work, long nights, and over a hundred red bulls, I was able to achieve a passing grade with a
I am Joselynn Brown. I just completed the first semester of my third year at WSU Tri-Cities. I am ashamed to say that, for the first time in my life, I failed at school. I have not always been a straight A student, in fact, I have only gotten a 4.0 once in my life. However, failing has never been acceptable to me. So what happened this semester? I failed not only one, but two classes. Now, I am left fighting for my spot in a school that I got automatically accepted to for having good grades. Thus, it is time to dig deep and explain just what went wrong.
Growing up, you face and deal with failure all the time. It is not the fact that you failed that matters, it is the fact of how you dealt with it that truly matters. Did you get back up after, did you keep pushing, did your faith waver, did you keep believing in yourself after it? These all define you more than the failure itself. People fail at things and quit because they did not get it right the first time, this says more about them than the fact that they failed.
Since 7th grade I've been challenging myself and my teacher that I could ace a test. Apparently in 7th grade I didn’t ace my test, but instead I got a C for me it means that I failed. I cried, I felt like I was a failure and I'll never achieve this goal, and I felt I'll never be useful or important in life if I don’t at least achieve one goal. But then,
With ups and downs in my career and my personal life, I have become stronger, more modest and grateful for all the chances that life offered. I have always been one of the top 10 students in class. But, I wasn’t able to perform my best in my third and final years of dentistry due to some distractions at home. But my mother always encouraged me with the thought that a failure is life’s way to make you better at something, for which you must keep trying. Holding on to that thought, I worked even harder and not only proved my merit in my second attempt, but got a better conceptual understanding about the subjects than most students around
Failure is a huge thing in life, if someone doesn't fail they never know what it truly feels like to succeed. In my life I've failed many times but I've been more successful because of every failure. A time of failure I am going to share is when I was being recruited by Vanderbilt University but my standardized test scores weren't high enough. I went on my unofficial visit to the school in April of 2015 and I remember talking to head coach, Darren Ambrose on the last day of my visit and he told me that as much as they wanted me to attend Vanderbilt, I wouldn't be able to attend unless I brought my scores up. I was crushed, I felt like I failed because my scores weren't high enough, I felt dumb.
This was a critical part in my life in which I learned the most valuable lesson. This lesson everyone in life learns at some point. I learned to never give up. When I was in the 10th grade I had a grade point average of under a 3.0. I knew I was in danger of not being able to go to the college that I have dreamt of going to since I was an adolescent.
Failure happens when something isn't successful. Failure is a thing that all people can learn from. Failures can be used as lessons so that the failure will not be repeated again. One of my greatest failures in life that I've experienced and learned from would be from the time of my first grade year. I didn’t take school seriously when I was in the first grade and made terrible grades. After this failure, it made change the outlook on school and I started trying. I learned that I need to take school serious or else I will do bad in school. This failure lead to success in school and I started making good grades which will help later on in life.
I have been chosen today to come before you and give some words of encouragement to the graduating class because I am seen as an example of one who has succeeded in school. And yet, I am by no means the only person in our class who has succeeded. Woody Allen once said, “Success is 80 percent showing up” and since all of you have shown up here today and at school for the last 12 years, you all are most of the way there. So what makes up the remaining 20 percent? Not getting all As on your tests, or going to state or winning first prize in a contest. It is merely trying. If you try your best, you have already succeeded, regardless of where you end up. The world is a fickle place and too often the most deserving, hardest-working people are passed over in favor of the ones who obtain the best-looking accomplishments. Thus, one’s measure of success should be based not on how well you do by society’s standards, but on how hard you worked and how much you got out of it. As Tennyson once said, “How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!” But rather, we should be, as he said, like the “spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought ... To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
A recent failure that has changed how I go about my daily life is one that many college freshman experience in their first year. In high school I was a very good student, but I did not have to put in a lot of effort to get the grades that I wanted. I would joke with my friends and say that high school taught me how to put in the least amount of effort, and still get the maximum result. All of my teachers told me, as they did every student, that college was going to be different and if you do not put in more effort it would be very difficult. I knew this coming into school, but I am not sure if part of me wanted to prove people wrong, or if I actually was just adjusting to college life. I did not study as much as I should of, and as a result my grades suffered. Luckily I did not completely ruin my grade point average, but since first semester I have completely changed my study habits. This has taught a much needed lesson about hard work, and I am determined to never again fail at my studies. I am the kind of person that learns a lot from failures. My dad has always told me it is ok to make a mistake, but never make the same mistake twice. This I a motto that I live by.
It’s been 17 years since I was in high school and I have taken a class that was merit based. One of my biggest regrets so far in life is under-preforming in high school. Learning in high school was 3rd or 4th on the priority list and my grades reflected that. In high school I only did enough to get by with a passing grade most of the time. By not taking learning in high school serious I left my job opportunities limited. I finally have decided to correct my regret from high school and over preform at college. Every chapter I read from my text books I try and focus on the content and not just the words. When I write a paper I write it with passion and try to be clear, focused, and precise. Answering questions isn’t just about putting words down,