Last Four Years Research Paper

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My life over the past four years has been an interesting one. In my first year of high school my mother died, which caused myself not to care much about anything. With that being said I almost failed algebra, and I would have if it was not for my grandmother. The past four years has changed me as a person, I have become worried myself and myself only. I have buckled down on my school work, and my outlook on life for the better. I feel more locked in with the world, I feel that things are easier when one knows what to do; to finish school, find a job, marry, have children, and help them to be able to start their life cycle too. When I was younger, I was the family's star; everybody would want to babysit me, take me places, and buy me practically and everything that I wanted. But, the stress of life throughout the years has taken my will and energy to want to care about my family. I do not care to visit them as much. They may try to reach out to me but, I take my sweet time responding, compared to my near immediate responses. Recently, I invited a great deal of my family to graduation, my mother (grandmother) told me that they may not come, I looked her dead in the eye and told her that not only did I not care …show more content…

Before, I thought that everybody gets into college, no matter what grades they had in high school. My Grandmother wanted me to make all A’s and B’s, I always wondered why. Why must I worry about my grades, I will get into college regardless of the grade. My mother explained to me that my grades matter since, it could make or break my GPA. GPA’s plus standardized testing scores are what get people into college. Now that I realize this, I try my best to excel my high school courses and my dual-enrollment courses at Tri-County. When my friends tell me that they struggle with grades, I try to help them for, I want for them to be able to go to college, since college is the first step to a decent

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