Stuggle Essay

My healthy stuggle

In the overview of this assignment you said, “I’m sure we have all felt at one time or another that someone else was smarter.” In high school I was a good student. I passed all my classes and always felt like I didn’t need to try, good grades came naturally to me. When It came to math that was a whole different story, I seemed to fall behind my peers In levels of math.

My senior year of highschool I was on top of the world! I was on the fast track to graduate and never look back. Until the day I was told I did not pass my freshman math class and I needed to retake the class to graduate.

I was a senior and very much older than everyone in this freshman math class, I felt very out of place. During the class I struggled so hard to pass. I would not let any of my peers help me with my assignments because I felt like everyone around me thought I was “stupid” and would laugh at my struggle. Being somebody who struggled in school was not classified as “cool” at my school. So, Day after day I would get assignments back with a big “F” written on the top.

I decided to branch out and ask for help. I started sitting in the front row of the class, asking questions, being honest with the fact that I didn’t understand something and showing I was strong and could defeat math. And then day after day my grades became better and I even made a few friends. I leared that everyone struggles but just as the article states by Jin Lin, “ if struggle indicates weakness – a lack of intelligence – it makes you feel bad…” “But if struggle indicates strength… you’re more willing to accept it.” In the end everyone strugles but if you work together and not let struggle be a weakness you can make it through