My sophomore year, now looking back on it, was a complete failure in my opinion. My grades did not reflect what kind of student that I think I really am. I don't remember quite frankly why I struggled so much that year. All I can think of is that I just didn't really care about my school work that much. I thought that if I just do enough to get by I could make it through high school. Going into my junior year, I really had to take a step back and reflect on what kind of student I was. I didn't like what I saw. I realized that if I kept just doing enough to get by in school that it was only negatively affecting me. I was only putting myself in a position to fail with that attitude. I consider my whole sophomore year as a failure and going into …show more content…
GPA wise, I think I definitely did. My grades improved and so did my attitude towards school. I realized my actions in high school do have major implications on my future. I do have to accept my grades sophomore year though, because it was my fault. I just have to deal with that. I promised myself to improve off my past failures and learn from what I did. I think that's what everyone should do. Failure is a pretty weird concept to me because technically it's a negative thing, but in my eyes it's actually a positive thing. You learn that most of the time you can't always succeed at first, sometimes you have to fail a couple of times before you can succeed. When you fail it gives you the ability to take a step back and reflect on the situation. It gives you the ability to grow and find out what you did wrong the first time, and fix it, so you can get back out there and try again. Nothing else really gives you the opportunity to do something like that. You know when most people fail, they just feel like giving up because at times it can be really hard to get back up and try again. You can't do that. You can't let failure hold you back. I think when someone fails and how quick they are to recover from it really defines what kind of person they
Success and failure seem to be pretty distinct opposites, but many times the differences between success and failure aren’t as obvious as we may think them to be. Sometimes a failure can be turned into a success if you are willing to look back at them, and are open to learning from them. Many times, one’s attitude toward a failure can determine whether or not anything is learned from it. Those who remain upbeat and positive after a failure may be able to get something out of it, but those who just don’t think about it and ignore it won’t get anything from it.
My biggest accomplishment throughout high school so far has been learning how to fail. Not necessarily falling flat on my face in a viral video, but instead just barely coming up short and not being able to reach a goal, despite my best efforts. Although I was unaware of it at the time, failing my driver’s test on my first attempt would become a life altering incident.
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.
Have you ever failed and it killed you to admit that you failed? It could help you understand what you did wrong. Then you can improve on it and finally succeed on what you failed in. Failure is important.
Sophomore year was the first chance for me to prove to my mom and myself that I could do better and make better choices. I felt focused and determined, and I wasn’t going to let tricky teachers or any kind of distractions stop me. All of my classes were brand-new and exciting until I got to my algebra class and learned that I had been dropped to a lower algebra class than the one I had originally failed. Aside from being a sophomore in a freshman math class (Pre-Algebra), the reality of why I was in a lower class sank in. I was in the class not because I couldn’t do the work, but because I didn’t.
There are failures that happen everyday, every minute and every second of the day. My biggest failure to this day is that of flunking out of Running Start. There are no words for how disappointed in myself I was for letting my family and friend problems to get in the way of my academic school life. The problem started from the beginning of college last year. I was so excited to be away from the high school where I was teased or looked down on by a selective few.
Although some people get discouraged by failure, I believe that failure has made me a better person because when I failed at summer camp, I became determined to make it a positive lesson in my life. It never occurred to me that I could fail at summer camp. I was a shy, curly haired, blue eyed girl with big dreams about summer camp. I had failed at several things before in my young life. For example, failing to jump rope, learning to play the piano, and baking my first pie all ended in failed attempts.
The summer before sophomore year was a very difficult time in my life. It was the first time that I experienced loss and how deeply it affects people. It was the first time that I realized that friends were not always there for you and that sometimes it is best to not have any friends, then friends that treat you poorly. The start of my troubles was the last day of school before summer vacation, my friends had not been talking to me, or listening to my concerns of being ignored.
No one likes to experience failure, but it is something everyone experiences, and only some people can beat. There are little failures like when you get a bad grade on a test you studied for, and their are big failures like when you miss a game winning shot with .2 seconds left, no matter how big the failure you have to react to them the same way, by getting back up and keep going. I have experienced a lot of failures in my seventeen years on this earth, and I will probably experience a lot more in my life, but those failures taught me about what kind of person I am, the kind of person who doesn’t give up, the kind of person who perseveres through failure to achieve the success waiting at the end of the road. One of my more recent failures taught me about not giving up and pushing myself to do the best I can, even when it seems impossible. Basketball is one of the most important things in my life, and Coppell High School is known for having a not-so-great girls basketball team.
I felt like a failure. Every time my mother or grandmother asked how I was doing I would lie and say I was doing great but deep down inside I felt like giving up and my work ethic showed exactly that throughout the year. If I had to advise myself back then I would tell myself to keep working, seek a tutor and to not be afraid of failure but be afraid to not keep
Failure happens when something isn't successful. Failure is a thing that all people can learn from. Failures can be used as lessons so that the failure will not be repeated again. One of my greatest failures in life that I've experienced and learned from would be from the time of my first grade year. I didn’t take school seriously when I was in the first grade and made terrible grades. After this failure, it made change the outlook on school and I started trying. I learned that I need to take school serious or else I will do bad in school. This failure lead to success in school and I started making good grades which will help later on in life.
If I am going to be completely honest, I have not experienced much failure in my life. I'm not going to say I have not experienced any failure in my lifetime, just not much. Elementary school and middle school were a breeze with straight A’s all the way through. Promoted from middle school with the confidence that I was going to rock high school, and for the most part, I did. Freshman year was what I had expected it to be.
A recent failure that has changed how I go about my daily life is one that many college freshman experience in their first year. In high school I was a very good student, but I did not have to put in a lot of effort to get the grades that I wanted. I would joke with my friends and say that high school taught me how to put in the least amount of effort, and still get the maximum result. All of my teachers told me, as they did every student, that college was going to be different and if you do not put in more effort it would be very difficult. I knew this coming into school, but I am not sure if part of me wanted to prove people wrong, or if I actually was just adjusting to college life. I did not study as much as I should of, and as a result my grades suffered. Luckily I did not completely ruin my grade point average, but since first semester I have completely changed my study habits. This has taught a much needed lesson about hard work, and I am determined to never again fail at my studies. I am the kind of person that learns a lot from failures. My dad has always told me it is ok to make a mistake, but never make the same mistake twice. This I a motto that I live by.
At some point I was closer to my senior year. To be closer to my senior year was a blessing and to feel like I could do this. Once I got closer to my senior year at sometimes I just wanted to just give up and stop trying. Things aren’t always easy when it’s getting close to my senior year. Once I got closer to my senior year I felt like I was a senior in my mind and was ready for any obstacle that was going to come my way.
I didn’t realize how important my education was until midway through my sophomore semester. I didn’t realize how much it would affect my later education like my GPA. I just wish that I could have been a more serious student in the beginning. I wish it wouldn’t have taken me almost two years to become the student I am today. It took a lot of extra work and stress that I could have avoided.