The reason my academics aren’t going well as you or I would like is because of the several family issues I’ve had to face during my high school career. It began my Sophomore year, I found out my mom needed surgery in her arm so the chances of her cancer spreading would be reduced. I was under a great deal of stress worrying about my mother, taking care of my four siblings making sure they knew everything was going to be okay, even though I wasn’t sure myself. It was all up to me; while my other brother worked to help with bills, my mom being in the hospital, and my dad working. Taking care of my siblings consisted of cooking, homework, cleaning, nightly routine, and putting them to bed. When the work was done it would be around 10 o'clock. It was already tough to buckle down and focus on homework without all the stress. With all this my first semester grade was less than great.…
I am a person that is weird and creates her own world I can say so passionate that what makes me unique. I grew up in a country that wasn’t noticed that much and was much going on there but even so I tried my best focusing on my studies that I can be here at the moment getting ready for college . As I grow up, I used to enjoy writing and creating things than doing anything else. Since I was little, I enjoy playing with Legos and collect puzzles and figuring it out, until now, I still collect puzzles and try putting them together. So when the time came by and I had to move here I felt sad I was anxious what I am going to do in a strange country. So when I arrived here I felt excited and anxious I did not know what to do. Compared from where…
Freshman Composition has done so much for me academically. In previous years I have had to do little to no writing and even when we did there were no rules or writing process we had to follow. This class has built a great basis for me, towards my academic future. I do realize that I am far away from being even an average writer, but I enjoy and accept that challenge to myself on becoming a competent writer. Parts of my writing, that still need to work are my introductions and sentence fluency. While I believe that my strong suits are, that once I get past my obstacles of writing that I have the potential to write something that will make a difference, other than that all my skills are still very raw. I’ve learned many things during EN101, the…
Starting college was the hardest thing i have ever done in my life, very dramatic i know but it made me feel a whole lot of emotions. feeling nervous in social situations where i was to meet new people left me feeling uneasy and tense. on top of that was the constant nagging of the time. getting up early every morning and going on a bus to dundalk would be a nightmare after getting up nearly everyday during the summer at one in the afternoon. once i got into the swing of things i was able get up at the right time, like a normal person. there were no hassle at the beginning of the…
School is place where I have met different people with different ways of culture and living. I have found it interesting meeting new people that don’t share the same beliefs as me because I get to know more about where they came from and what their beliefs are.…
I started to go to school on time. I talked to teachers of classes that I was struggling with. I told them what kind of problem I had and told them I was going to be a different person. Even though the terms in biology and world history were hard, I managed to pass for second semester with acceptable grades. However I had to take summers school for my first semester courses of those classes, which I failed. During the junior year, I got A on American history. I believe after going through those hard times in world history class helped me to be a better person and to the take next level of social…
I had decent grades during freshman year, but as I started taking more and more ap classes and harder classes, I couldn’t keep up. It’s not that I couldn’t keep up, I was just too tired to keep up. The work piled up and my grades were going down. This trend would continue throughout junior and senior year. I managed to pass my classes, but at Lowell, that’s not enough to go anywhere.…
One of my challenges was in my Sophomore year when I didn't make the varsity team because I was not in good condition. The other challenge happen in my junior year when I got injured a week before the championship game and I had to recover before the game. When I was a sophomore I tried out for the varsity soccer team at my school but I did not make it, because I was not at that level. Some of the reason I did not make it were ,because I was overweight, slow, not strong enough and would put too much pressure on myself so I was not able to complete a pass or a shot. Those were the things I needed to work on so I could become a better soccer player. I was really upset…
However, I ended up failing my calculus class and barely passing my economics class due to the numerous activities I was taking a part of and having to work part-time to cover my living expenses. The struggle that I had faced academically was a huge shock to me because I had been among the top ten percent students in my high school, and never once in my life did I had to take tutoring. Even though I was going to tutoring twice a week and setting more time aside to study, I still failed my exams which caused me a tremendous amount of stress. As a result, I packed up my stuff went back home to enroll at El Paso Community College to relieve the tensions of having to live by myself and to rethink of my goals about what I wanted to do in my college…
For my freshman year, I had the help of my brother, but by tenth grade, he graduated from MHS and went to college. My sister helped me out to, but not as much, because she got in even more trouble than I did. She lost her freshman scholarship. Once I was in tenth grade, I was doing okay. My grades were good, but I didn't get effort and conduct or honor roll. By eleventh grade, I was a perfect student. Well… not so perfect. I didn't get effort can conduct or honor roll, but was very close. As a senior, I got no levels and only missed honor roll by a point. Effort and conduct, I also missed by only a point. My graduation was a lot of fun, and I got my ring, which says “Class of 2021” on it in actual gold!…
The Early College was the push I needed to better myself as a student and as a person. In high school, I received stellar grades and test scores without trying. I never needed to study, and I did the bare minimum for a majority of my assignments. Occasionally, I would find an assignment that I loved and go way beyond the requirement. I was a teacher favorite, but I was disliked by other students because I was a bit of a show off with my intelligence. I never needed time management skills, so I never developed them. While I was received good grades, I did not improve any of my skills or abilities. This program helped me find my faults and make changes that have made a world of difference.…
Well what I believed in freshman year and now sophomore year is the complete opposite. The beginning of freshman year, I believed that I can be friends and trust anyone; however now is different because I change and what people around me what they did to me. Well there's a couple of things that happened, but I'm going to stick with one something that happened to me recently. What happened was this person turned everything against me, this person made me not trust the people who I trusted for years. What I really believe in now from last year is that get to know someone before you trust someone. I honestly just don't get some people why they do the stuff they do, and why they can be just awful to other people. I never knew that people can have…
My first two years of high school seemed very scary to me. I started following the wrong crowd because I believed that hanging with this crowd would protect me. With the help of some adult individuals, I later realized that I was headed in the wrong direction, so I turned to sports. Initially, I did not take sports seriously it was just something that allowed me to stay out with my peers. Later, I begin to enjoy sports. It sad to say that I did not take my grades seriously. If I had listened and been more attentive my GPA could have been at least 2.8. I am not proud of my GPA which is a 1.93 but I do believe that it is not a true reflection of my capabilities.…
The first couple months of classes has went by so smoothly and I felt like I was adjusting fine. I attended class regularly and took notes from the lectures. I knew that college was different than high school but I continued with the norm. Now, that its time for mid-term grades to be posted, I have realized that College required more time management and consistency within the study habits. Thinking about my mid-term grades has changed my mind set.…
I graduated from Newberg High School in 2012, with a 1.9 cumulative GPA. I was happy just to walk on graduation night with my friends. The summer before my senior year, I took two full classes of English, and one term of biology through credit recovery, and a drug diversion class through the state. I was motivated to take care of my school work that year and let my social life take the back seat. I could not afford to fail anymore classes or to get into any more trouble. So that’s what I did. My grades weren’t pretty, but they were all passing.…