At times celebrities work hard to transform a negative image or reputation into a positive one. Young people often attempt to do the same. To me I think that it is possible to change your reputation and how people perceive you as a person. I have dealt with having a bad reputation in the pass. I've made plenty of mistakes which made others perceive me as a bad person. High school from ninth through eleventh grade for me was pretty tough. All I did was cut class continuously. I hated everything about it like the early morning never ending class lesson the whole nine basically. Every morning I would wake up and dread getting ready going on the bus and getting to school the whole thing was dreadful. Report …show more content…
Even I knew that I had to change in order to graduate my senior year on time. I just didn't I put the idea in my head that I could not do it because it was so hard. Which is what many people think when I t comes to changing their bad reputation. If you have the mind set of "I can't do it" you are automatically setting yourself up for failure. Which is what I realized my senior year in high school. Once I became a senior in high school I knew that me passing my classes had to be done. I refused to tell my mom and dad The reason for me not getting a diploma was because I could not get my act together. So I spent the whole entire year getting help form teachers going to class on time and completing all homework assignments. I began to see a difference with the way my teacher treated me it was like they had faith in me passing. Which made me very happy I spent the majority of time failing in school. It felt good to pass class with good averages and make my parents proud. It felt like I've accomplished something for once knowing that I was set to graduate on time like the rest of the senior