Personal Narrative: My Failure In Middle School

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Failure is something everyone experiences in their life; it can come from the most miniscule moments or the most extreme ones, but with either, it can mold a person's character: the choices are to get back up and continue to take on challenges, or stay within one’s newfound comfort zone. I, just like the rest of the developing children of the world have had my share of failures. Yet, my most notable and character developing failure was the one I experienced my freshman year. From my middle school perspective high school to be just another middle school, I had no clue that honors and AP classes were going to be as hard as they were, and I hoped they wouldn’t be. I had challenged myself by enrolling into Honors Biology, something I had seen as a challenge but nothing too difficult for someone who loved science. To me surprise, I …show more content…

Historically I was a student who strived for A’s, and for the most part achieved that goal. This recurring theme really tore away every shred of academic confidence I had, it destroyed my love for science and my academic confidence. Not only was my self integrity ripped away from me but so was my academic, my GPA after this class was destroyed, I recall it being slightly above a 2.3 at the end of my freshman year.

After my freshman year I had to push myself a lot harder than I ever thought I would have to in high school. Even though I had been discouraged academically I knew I would have to push hard and keep enrolling into AP and honors classes to raise my GPA. Yet, other things in my life were developing and coming at me which would cause me to push harder and realize what I needed to do to succeed to break away from the habits of my family. My direct family is a group of the smartest and hardest working individuals I know, my parents both

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