I never imagined that every bad choice I made in high school was something that would affect my future. In high school I made many mistakes that later led me to deal with all the consequences. A part of me wishes I could go back, but only to do it the “right” way. In high school I never thought about college or how close I was to being on my own, honestly I barely even thought about graduating until my senior year. Senior year was one of the worst years for me during high school. I noticed some of my friends taking college course credits, and passing through their classes with flying grades. I felt disappointed in myself for getting behind and distracted, in my mind, I told myself “if you can’t do well in high school, what makes you think you’re …show more content…
When I was a freshman I had many “friends” (As many do when they first start high school.) Hanging out with bad influences not only got me into drugs, but got me into thinking it was okay to come home passed my 11 o’clock curfew. At that point in my life, I was dealing with my mom passing out every 3 days from low blood sugar, to feeling like I was never going to be good enough. I went to the drugs and told myself I was “forgetting “everything. Sadly I didn’t figure out how bad I was ruining my high school years until I saw my …show more content…
Hanging out with the wrong friends was part of the reason I didn’t go to school, but the other part was because I had to take care of my mom. Some days I wouldn’t go, and other days I would go in a couple hours late because I wanted to sleep in. Also, there would be days I would go with my friends as soon as I got to school, to go eat and hang out at their house. A lot of teachers liked me and would always give me good advice on how I need to stop hanging out with the wrong crowd and come to class, but I was so far from doing the right thing I just stayed doing whatever I wanted. Senior year was a bad year for me, I felt like an outsider from all the students around me that were doing well in school, and accomplishing all their mini goals they had set for high
High school was not a completely dreadful experience, but I did not get a really an exceptional education. As I entered high school, I thought it would be a whole new exciting chapter in my life. I started out as an involved student, and went through all of the Advance Placement and Honor classes, and managed to be at the top 12% of my class. In high school, I basically placed myself to enjoy it; I joined all of the extra curricular activities I was interested in. I was in band, tennis, swimming, dance team, and Key Club. Sometimes I was at school for about fourteen hours a day, four times a week.
Regretfully, when I entered high school I did not realize how hard I had to work to get what I wanted. I went to my classes, did my work, but never really pushed myself to my full abilities. I thought that as long as I graduated with decent grades I would be able to get into college and really focus then. But as high school quickly came to an end I realized that I was not as well prepared for college, as I would have liked.
Throughout my four years in high school I have been fortunate enough to fulfill many of my aspirations and my thirst for knowledge. One goal that I would like to achieve is to become an international attorney. I have aligned my involvement in specific academic and extra-curricular activities to aid me preparing for the long road between my present situation and the day I pass the bar exam. Through my high school activities I have learned three virtues that I have deemed necessary to achieve my goal, passion, self-discipline, and perseverance.
Let’s flash back in time to before our college days. Back to then we had lunch trays filled with rubbery chicken nuggets, stale pizza, and bags of chocolate milk. A backpack stacked with Lisa Frank note books, flexi rulers, and color changing pencils. The times where we thought we wouldn’t make it out alive, but we did. Through all the trials and tribulations school helped build who I am today and shaped my future. From basic functions all the way to life-long lessons that helped shape my character.
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