Personal Narrative: My Failure

Due to my failure of not completing all the assignments in my interactive notebook, I have been given the opportunity to redeem myself and my grade. I feel that my biggest problem was time management. With the little 30 minutes we had I could have distrusted my time wisely. I also made the wrong sections of the book priority. Instead of focusing on the writing I chose to do the plot diagrams, because I thought those were going to be graded. My peers played a role in my failure because I allowed them to distract me. We would sometimes get off topic about the work and talk about irrelevant things; Conversations in which took me off task. I am athlete and I allowed sports to come before my academic. There were some days where I would stay for

Instead of trying to reread all the stories I could have read summaries. I didn’t use my recourses wisely. I could have also worked a bit harder and put forth more effort. I had in my mind that 30 minutes wasn’t enough and I would do it another time; procrastinating. The mental block in my head brought me down. I should have thought more positive thoughts and I would’ve probably got it done. Although I felt that I did enough because I did everything besides the essays I still could have took the extra mile to finish. I have learned a very valuable lesson from this. This really made me realize that I have to be more responsible. In college I know that I have to make sure I get all of my work done. They will not care about how much time I have, or what I thought was important. The professors would not care about what I forgot to do they want the assignments first time asked with no exceptions. I have never had a failing grade in a class that is why I am very appreciative of this opportunity. I am willing to do all that I can to make sure I pass your class. My bad habits have to get left in the 10th grade. Next year I am enrolled in Ap lang and I know it’s not going to get any easier. In life no one is going to baby feed me anything I must take the initiative