When There Was A Time In Your Sophomore Year?

Question 2

There was a time in my sophomore year where I realized that my actions have greater consequences than I believed they would. It started in freshman year where I believed that high school would be child’s play, due to the fact that throughout middle school I was a straight “A” student. I entered high school under my own impression that I would excel in each class without having to put much effort into trying and acquiring acceptable grades for my college applications would be no problem. That all started to change in freshman year when I received my first ever “C” grade. At the time my parents did not know how to follow my grades on Schoolloop, so I just grabbed my report card before they obtained it and hid it from them. It still hadn’t occur to me that

I kept saying to myself that I was still receiving a passing grade. However, when I reached sophomore year I received two “D” grades on my first-semester report card. When I couldn't hide my grades and was compelled to see the look on my parents face when they saw my grades, it was in that moment that I began to realize that if I kept procrastinating on doing anything about my grades I wouldn't have grades worthy enough grades in order to make it into college. It took me a while to figure out that my failure of not working hard to continue being a straight “A” student had affected my normal lifestyle. My lack of interest in academic success caused me to I become lazy whenever it came to homework, cleaning, or even going out to hang out with my friends. It also caused me to lose any confidence I have within myself. I started speculating, “If you can't receive a satisfactory grade now, what makes you think you'll ever measure out to be anything.” It's as if I fell into my own little bubble where I believed everything would turn out my way. I hadn’t realize it at the time, but once I started to try to improve my grades for my second semester of sophomore year I also began to step out slowly of