Because simple assignments can pile on and might skip a few, I was focused more on home life and how I felt emotionally rather than putting forth more effort into my academic career. My actions that year made it more like school, not pursuing goals into the future. Plenty of things happened that year, home life, academic life, distractions from friends… All played a huge role in how I acted towards certain subjects and criteria available to me. One time I told my parents I was staying after school for tutorials when really I went out with a big group of my friends and made some pretty irrelevant decisions. When I was caught, it made it ten times harder to maintain a smile on my face, being completely honest. I was put under house arrest by
As a senior, my past is full of things that I wish I had done differently. My past years in high school weren’t always the best, but they make me who I am today. Problems that I dealt with were that I had trouble keeping my grades and GPA up because, I was more focused on socializing and being a class clown than I was on my school work. Because I wanted to be a class clown it also caused a lot of behavioral issues. I ended up being kicked out of my ninth-grade math class because of it, damaging my GPA even more. Having behavioral issues is never a good thing it caused me to be suspended out of school, which are reflected poorly on my attendance. So, when I was in school, I was so far behind that it made it nearly impossible to catch up. I feel as if these were some of the worst decisions I could have made, because it’s made it so much harder for me going into my senior year.
I am completely embarrassed about that. I know I should have forced myself, no matter how tired I was, to finish everything. And not just do it to get it done, which I also did a lot, but to do things and give it my best effort and spend as much time as possible fixing mistakes and making it as best as I can. Something in these past years that has tripped me up the most is forming and withholding a connection with most of my teachers. At times I am not the best at making “friends” with my teachers even though I know that is a very important aspect of my school
...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.
In my first semester, I took English IV and dedicated all of my extra time to completing my graduation project. The project was a huge part of my grade for English, and if I did not meet the requirements for it, I would not have graduated. It was required that I write a research paper, create a product, record my progress in a portfolio, and present it all at the end of the semester. It was also required that I complete the project with a mentor. At the time, I was not sure what my career goals were, but I was interested in pediatrics and decided that it should be my topic in order to learn more about the
In all honesty I give the credit for my score to Ms. Rice from the career center at school for having the ACT and college meeting in the spring. Without that meeting that day at school, I would have never put thought into what it takes to be a hard working student and what it takes to achieve an academic goal. I needed to make a change for the better and I did. I am a lot more motivated to do well in school now and have even decided that I want to go to school and major in pre-med and eventually become an anesthesiologist as my first choice, general practitioner as a second choice. I learned that it is never too late to make a change, I know that my late change in academic behavior will hurt my chances to get into a good college, but I now have the drive and the knowledge to get things done and achieve my goal.
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At times, these conditions can become challenging with the build up of personal responsibility and outside activities. Looking back, my greatest academic achievement would be the successful completion and passing of the World History AP course in tenth grade. Work for the course started over the summer with a required reading of multiple textbook chapters and studying. I knew starting early the work for this course would be daunting and time consuming, forcing me to think and apply myself in ways I have not yet done. Being my first advanced placement course, the workload hit me very overwhelmingly, causing me to doubt my ability to stay successful in the class. However, with the help of the teacher, and me reshaping my methods of working, I was able to turn my attitude around. From data-based-questions (DBQ’s) and compare and contrast essay, to reading quizzes and chapter assessments, all the assignments assigned helped prepare the students for the end year AP exam. Completing all the assignments with successful marks enhanced my learning and comprehension skills as well as further my ability to evaluate small topics into a bigger picture. With the new skills acquired at the start of my high school career, I could go on to take equally challenging courses, shaping my transcript to the best of my ability, while preparing myself for the future and what
My name in is Sanger Rainsford and I am applying to work at the anti-hunting support group for animals, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). I have the passion to advocate for those animals that are hunted on a daily basis by humans. Animals don't have the voice to say their feelings, so I will. I am able to understand first hand both the hunter and the hunted’s perspectives.I am able to see both sides because I was a hunter, I loved it in fact. But, I was also hunted. And I hated being the hunted.
Sunday mornings used to consist of lethargic snuggling underneath oversized thermal blankets while binge-watching Netflix for hours with family. Weekends were my favorite because it was the one time during the week I was able to laze in the comforting presence of my mother whom I rarely encountered because of her hectic work schedule. Since my parents divorced when I was only about five years old, I was raised by a hard-working single mother for the majority of my life, 2,614 miles away from my estranged father whom I rarely talk to except on birthdays and national holidays. Not only did my mother have to balance supporting me, but also my grandfather in the Philippines who was in critical condition after his third stroke in May of last year. My aunts and uncles could not cover the medical expenses on their own, so my mother invested as much as she could for the sake of her father. The distress and devastation my mother
When I woke up the next morning, I realized that I was in Zaroff's comfortable bed. Where am I? Why am I here? I suddenly remembered. I had won. I was the first one to win the game. I had the island all to myself now, but what should I do?
Had all of the hair-dye gone to my brain? Did I bump my head too many times with my curling iron? Maybe I inhaled too many makeup products. Whatever the problem had been, I knew that some amendments had to be made to my behavior. I decided to go into sophomore year without any expectations. By doing this, I was able to create my own high school experience, rather than copy one from a movie. Although my grades and attitude had improved, there was still room for improvement. By my junior year I was able to speak with my teachers as if they were close friends, which I consider most of them to be. It is amazing how teachers can see the potential in us that we may have never detected. If my French teacher had not convinced me to take German along with French, I would have never discovered my love for languages. My English teacher introduced me to her club that is dedicated to Shakespeare, from this I learned that I am pretty darn good at understanding and performing Shakespearean plays and sonnets. I am now in my senior year and I feel as if I am thriving. Every year my grades and appreciation for school have increased, and I have my freshman year to thank for this. Failing miserably that year made me force myself to make
A typical morning for me when i was 15 was not only trying to get myself ready to walk a long distance to school, but to prepare my two little sisters for their school. I was only 11 years old when my dad left us(mom and siblings). Ever since my dad left us I had to face a lot of challenges knowing that since that moment my life had changed. When my dad left i ended up taking a lot of responsibly at a young age. I started working and wanted to help my mom. We got to a point where we became homeless and i missed a lot of school. When my dad left he took everything and the house my parents were paying was way too much for my mom to pay by herself because is was working in the fields picking fruits. When we were homeless we had to go back to mexico
The first factor that hindered my success is described well by Dan Pink’s TED Talk, “Drive”. Pink described how if/then rewards work for well-defined tasks because they narrow your focus. My semester was treated as a potential for a direct result. Consequently, forgetting that my winter courses were not my final opportunity to achieve self-satisfaction caused me to become my own source of stress. Worrying about the realization that I was not enjoying
Half way through that year my cousin who is like a brother to me decided it was time for him to move to Phoenix Arizona accompanied by his newly wedded wife and try to make a living there. Him leaving really hit me hard, I was pretty close to becoming depressed. During that time I preferred to keep my mind busy as a result my grades shot up almost forty percent. Math in not my favorite subject at all, but for the first time in my entire life I can say that I really enjoyed and looked forward to going to my first period math class, I had the highest grade in that particular class for that semester. For the rest of that school year after overcoming all my problems I was just going to school getting my work done, get home, finish homework and do some work around the house.
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