Growing Up In Highschool

Being able to build yourself back up after you’ve fallen is something that takes a lot of effort and commitment, that was something I had to learn the hard way. Having six older siblings really put a lot of pressure on me growing up because I was expected to always be the best, especially when only four of your six siblings graduated highschool and only one continued on to college. Growing up I didn’t really care for school and didn’t think much of how it would affect me later in life. As soon as I had gotten to middle school is when I started to disregard anything that had to do with school because I always thought I had enough time to better myself. My freshman and sophomore year of highschool I began to skip school two to three times a week. I
would fail all my classes and not care about the consequences because I still had two long school years ahead of me. My sophomore year really came down on me the hardest because I was realizing that sooner or later I was gonna graduate. At that time a was already failing all my classes and was becoming stressed and on top of that had many personal problems as well.
By the time my junior year came I was places in the continuation school four of my siblings had attended and two graduated from. When I started to attend that school I started to realize that it wasn’t for me. I didn’t want people knowing me for the reputation my brothers had put on themselves, I wanted to be my own person. In the middle of the school year, we ended up moving which caused me to receive no credit for the first semester. While I was at my new school I was certainly trying so much harder than the other two schools to get my grades up but unfortunately I wasn’t trying hard enough because I had started to have more personal problems again. When I had started my senior year at a new high school for the third time I was really upset with myself. I felt that I had let everyone down especially myself. I had started my last year of highschool with only ninety credits. When I had talked to my counselor she had told me that there was no way for me to be able to graduate this year unless I put all my effort in. I had realized that school may be hard but at the end the reward is so worth
it. For my first semester as a senior I had completed a whole year worth of credits in only half the time. When I had found out, that really got me motivated to continue with what I was doing. I realized that no one can help you change yourself unless you’re willing to do it for yourself. My senior year as a highschool senior showed me that as long as you're really committed to something you want it’s possible to achieve no matter how far the goal is.