When receiving the phone calls explaining that I failed my classes, I thought it was all over. Failure and hardships have been a recurring outcome of everything in my past. With all the depressing problems of the past left me feeling lonely and isolated. This had left me determined to pursue my dreams and flip the negatives of my life and turn them into something useful. The frustration and stress all began in seventh grade where life started to get increasingly harder as I grow older. Preparing for high school was beginning, and I already knew I was going to fall behind. I didn't understand the work, and it just led me to slip farther and farther behind ultimately leaving me impotent where I felt like no one can help me. It left me to the …show more content…
During that summer, I began to realize that I need to change. Life is going too fast to sit around and let everything that matters drift away. September 3, 2014, first day of school, arrives and I was terrified. So I attempted to try hard and make a difference. I disregarded the video games and picked up a textbook and studied for the first time in a while. My parents and teachers start to notice a steady improvement. Ninth grade turned out to be my best grade so far since middle school. The isolation has begun to dissipate, and I began to be more confident in myself. With each successive grade, my grades have since increased. Currently, in school, I am continually trying to challenge myself by taking classes I would never imagine myself even enrolling in. Not only the achievements in school have aided in my goal of overall improvement. Outside of school, I have acquired an interest in learning many activities, some including programming and web designing. By obtaining these skills, it has taught me to think more deliberately and has changed my thought process on facing many problems. I like the pathway I took, and I will attempt to continue this progress for the benefit of me and many
As many people have told me before, it is a very different ballgame than middle school’s easy going years. There is much more work, the classes are harder, and the environment is completely different. Many people’s grades may slip and they may cower in fear at the barrage of assignments they receive class after class. Unlike other people, I am confident in my ability to excel at all classes and to sustain exemplary grades. Therefore, while many are trembling in fear at the prodigious assignments and work is bombarding them from all angles, I will be at ease, knowing that whatever obstacle is thrown my way, I will conquer it and be its own
I felt as though I was watching a train barrelling towards me, an inevitable bullet that had come tumbling out of the opposing pitcher’s arm. But instead I stood immobilized, watching my team's only chance of winning whiz by me. Strike three. I heard my team from behind me shouting “SWING!” with my mind screaming the same. But my bat remained unmoving, the pop of the catcher's glove like the nail into the coffin that was our defeat. All I had to do to keep our hopes of winning hope alive was swing, and yet I couldn't. I stayed on the field afterwards, tossing the ball up in the air and swinging away, landing it on the thick maple barrel of the bat.
At one point I came to the conclusion that I’m either going to fail, go to summer school, or go to a school that I didn't want to attend. I felt so disappointed in myself because I knew that I could've done better. So then one day I told myself, “I can do this”. I then started to study more than I usually did, I turned in all of my missing work and my present work, and I also took an after school tutoring class
Cliffside Park High School has offered me numerous opportunities. I took honors courses in English, mathematics, and science ever year. In addition, I have taken three years of Spanish as a third language and an advanced placement class for U.S. history. Throughout the past couple years; I have been able to sustain a high grade point average of about a 4.4 (based on calculations made at the end of sophomore year) and make High Honor Roll for almost every marking period. However, my journey to where I am now was not a perfect yellow brick road. Instead, it was a path with many twists and turns that led me through many dark and awful experiences. Juggling all these courses was something I had adapted ...
A fight breaks out in the cafeteria, a kid smashes a milk carton on another student’s face. One of those “your mom” jokes had gone too far. This does not have to be you. You are just entering Jr. high, it's a new school with new rules and new faces. Think of it as a fresh, new palette, you can paint yourself as whoever you want to be. Whether that be a straight A student or a total flunk.
From then on, I’ve decided to discipline myself and give my greatest effort to my education. At the same time, I sacrifice sleep and fun time only to satisfy myself with a deep study or completed assignments. Although I have good academic level and willing to accept challenges, I am not a perfect student because I’ve failed from the desire to achieve more. I took two AP courses and Calculus during my sophomore and junior years, eventually especting a learning growth. Nevertheless, my expectations were never met and rather lowered my stamina and courage in STEM.
Walking down the hallway of high school and feeling like an odd person was a horrible feeling that I ever had. New country, new people, new school and not a single person that I knew. It was like a nightmare. I still remember my first day of high school, my first day in American school. I felt like everyone was staring at me and it had not even been a single week that I was already thinking to quit. It was like two road diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference.
Throughout high school, apprehensions overwhelmed me with the perspective of how poorly I was performing in my education. The inadequate performance accentuated the idea that I needed to alter my perspectives and goals. My slow, rising grades showed my potential to improve and my improvements
I failed half of classes and lost all hope for myself. However I’m slowly but surely picking myself back up again with the love of my friends and family, my own perseverance and achieving a healthier lifestyle.
Summer break was over, and it was the time to go back to school to my eleventh grade. School for me wasn’t that different as my summer break. I never felt like not going to school after a long summer break because I used to have a lot of fun in school. School for me was a place where you would socialize, gossip, brag, drive attention, miss conduct, daydream, text students, sing, ask silly questions and flirt with girls. I think now you know how my days at school used to be. However, a day has come that I would not expect it to come at all. I suddenly became a much disciplined student that I would not do anything out of the way. It all happened when I meet my new physics professor Jamal Betar who has wonderful qualities that amaze him from other teachers, and he also gave me the true meaning of education that I have never thought of before in my life.
Everyday I came to school I made a goal to learn at least two different things that I didn’t know the day prior. Soon after, all my test scores were improving because of my new found approach to school. After all my hard work my overall grade in my classes were better than they had ever
All of a sudden, life hit me I was homeless with no form of transportation, no resources for funds it was like I was going through a major crisis. Being that I had so much going on in my life I stopped going to class, as a result I ended up failing. Now behind in all of my classes I was worried, I didn’t want to fail because of things I had no control over. I knew getting a college education was something I desperately wanted, and I knew I had to do whatever it took for me to pass my first
There's times in your life that you never want to relive, whether it's a harsh rejection or a heavy disappointment. If you choose to learn from your failure it can make a fundamental impact on your life. Walking through the doors my freshman year, a fragile girl was ready for "the most important four years of her life." Overwhelming and excited I ran from class to class beaming with joy, soon to be discouraged by the challenging courses and constant pressure. Always a straight A student my grades started to plummet.
Living up to my resolution, I joined several clubs, both in and out of school and academic and recreational. I also met some of my very best friends in high school. Achieving all of this, friends, memberships to academic clubs and good grades, made up my first successful experience in high school. I was driven by the years in middle school and the promise that I made to myself at the end of eighth grade. Throughout my under classmen years I exceled in all subjects and thoroughly enjoyed the clubs I had joined. I think my downfall for the last two years of school was that I took for granted my good grades and as my classes got more rigorous I didn’t change the way I learned the material, but continued on the same path that I had been following my entire academic career, even when my grades were slipping slightly. Halfway through my senior year, I realized I needed to change the way I was learning the curriculum my instructors were teaching. I’ve always been the type of student to take good notes or listen to a lecture and understand everything the first time around, as was the case in elementary school and middle school. But my more rigorous classes proved to be a challenge for me and I did not know the proper way of learning the material on my own. I started by asking more questions in class and then going to my friends for help on subjects I didn’t understand. After many questions and after school tutor
When I was in high school I had a problem, which was being shy. Being shy made me seem as if I was anti-social, and caused me to have no friends, but my shyness was decreasing each year of high school because I talked more, and by the time I reached 12th grade I had many friends, who are very close to me till this day. While being in high school, I was always focused on my studies. People believed that I was a genius in high school, but I really wasn’t, I was just focus on the lessons, and understood what the teacher taught us. As I reached eleventh grade, I was chosen to be a part of the National Honor Society; I thought that I was never going to be part of the National Honors Society. I was at the hospital when my friends told me the good news—that I was selected to be part of the National Honors Society. As I reached 12th grade I learned that working while going to school is a bad idea if you can’t multitask right. When I was working I didn’t realized that I wasn’t multitasking right; I wasn’t putting enough effort into my studies, and having a job was distracting me, so I decide to quit my job, and continue my education by going to college. Growing up was scary, but I’m ready what the future is holding for