Class That Changed My Life

In high school I have taken a lot of classes. Some I had to take as a graduate requirement such as English, math and social studies. Others I didn’t have to take, but did because I either wanted to work out or learn more on some subject I liked. These classes would fall along the lines of art, power lifting and ceramics. That’s just what I thought this class was going to end up being. Just a class I took for the fun of it because the subject looked cool to me. I had no idea that it would forever change my mind-set about everything.

The class was called A.P. Psychology. I thought it would be existing to learn about the brain and how and why it works the way it does. Learn how come specific people think the way they do. In addition the constellation was that even if it turned out to be uninteresting and I didn’t like the marital I leaned, I’d get a college credit for simply passing the class. The “A.P.” met “Advanced Placemat” and any of the A.P. classes at my high school a student takes and passes will earn a college credit. I’d imagined those being something you could never have too many of coming out of high school and wanting to head into college. That is all I was thinking about when I signed up.

First day of class I instantly felt that the situation would be different in this class. When I saw the teacher, I could tell he was going to be more serous than any of my other teachers just by the way he looked and presented himself. As I looked around the classroom I noticed that I already knew some of the kids sitting down. They all had something in common as well; they had always been known as the smart students because they were always getting good grades and what not. This really got me a bit worried that I might not be able to keep up. I felt I was in way over my head on this.

The work started right off the bat. I mean normally the first day or so of a class, especially at the beginning of the year, you would find yourself spending the period learning about the other kids and the teacher to help create a form of comfort between everybody. Except in this case, the teacher just told a little about himself and transitioned right into teaching. I was not used to that at all, and it defiantly contributed to my growing fear of this year-long class, which had been growing from the first step I took inside this room.

The work just kept coming and coming, getting harder and harder the deeper into the textbooks we read. I’m used to school and getting homework and it’s always the same. This class though was on its own level, with having to put at least an hour a day into after school studding for just this one class alone. We had a test every two weeks just about, and every test meant the end of a chapter. The other kids in there with me didn’t “goof off” as much as other; they were much more series about it. I was not used to one bit of this type of environment, but I knew I had to overcome this for the future I wanted.

I committed myself to this. To passing the class and making it though a harder class that I had ever taken before. I knew it was going to be difficult work and I was going to have to stay dedicated to doing this, so that’s just what I did. I had to give up a few nights of going out to hang out with friends, so I could stay home and obtain the necessary studying I needed for my goal. I remember telling myself “can’t give up now, I’m already so far into it and quitting now would make almost all of this hard work seem to be joke.”

I noticed after about half way through the school year that this hard work and studying wasn’t only affecting this one class. I was doing better in just about all my other classes as well, from English to math. My overall grades had been averaging higher than any other year. I realized that this class had been getting me to study harder in all my other classes as just a habit.

After that class ended a school year later, I ended up passing it and learning a lot. Not just about the subject of psychology, but about myself. It taught me that hard work and staying true to it will be a combination to allow me to reach goals that would seem extremely difficult. I’m much more of an organized person as well. I am glad I took the class for it changed me to be better in so many ways.