High School Failure

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If I am going to be completely honest, I have not experienced much failure in my life. I'm not going to say I have not experienced any failure in my lifetime, just not much. Elementary school and middle school were a breeze with straight A’s all the way through. Promoted from middle school with the confidence that I was going to rock high school, and for the most part, I did. Freshman year was what I had expected it to be. It was definitely a step up from middle school, but a little more effort and studying made it quite the smooth ride. I ended the year with all A’s, and one B in the first semester of honors biology. Then sophomore years came around. Once again, nothing I wasn't expecting and I passed with flying colors. Now junior year rolls around and I'm …show more content…

I knew that I had the skills, the knowledge, and the capability to take these classes head on. The first weeks were definitely the most rigorous weeks I had ever experienced in school up to that point. While, it was hard I had all A’s in the grade book and I was feeling good. Then the first physics test came, and I was nervous to say the least, I had studied for days upon days before the test and lost sleep numerous times worrying about the test and the worst case scenario. The test day eventually came and I completed it to the best of my ability and felt okay about my performance. The next day we grade the test and get them handed back. I looked at my paper and my stomach sank, the letter F had been written on my test. This was the worst case possible and I was devastated. Never had I ever gotten anything below a C, my immediate thought was to drop the class. I wanted to drop to regular physics and forget that this had ever happened, but I did not. I kept the class in my schedule and made a promise to myself I would end the year with a B minimum in that class. This is where I learned the importance of

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