Sophomore Year Failure

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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

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