Personal Experience: Moving To High School
Throughout life, people will face many hardships, trials, troubles, and anxieties. These are all things we must deal with, on a day to day basis, rarely with an easy way out. One can complain and gripe all they want, but its all part of life. By realizing these simple facts of life, helped me to be able to better go about handling these obstacles as they come my way.
Towards the middle of my tenth grade year in high school I learned of the decision my family had made that we were moving that upcoming summer. At first I was very excited, anxious to leave my hometown and start fresh. However, as the moving date came closer, I became more and more anxious, realizing everything I was leaving behind. Up until that point, having been born and …show more content…
In Florida, my whole life I had attended Christian private schools, from kindergarten through my sophomore year. Therefore, I had no clue what to expect, and would come to see how my past somewhat sheltered life wasn’t so sheltered anymore. It was a rude awakening when it came to seeing how my (this) generation really is. Besides the social factor of school, I was faced with a major setback that I had to deal with and continuing to deal with. After my first couple visits with my counselor I had found at that the school’s grading system used a seven point scale, whereas the other used a ten point scale. I didn’t realize just how bad it was until I saw how it caused my GPA to go from a 3.5 and above, to dropping down to a 3.0. After letting that sink in for a while, it didn’t take long before I realized the classes I was currently taking weren’t doing anything for my GPA, even though I was making all A’s and B’s. So by the second semester I looked for opportunities that might help such as joining a few Honors classes, as well as taking two college classes that summer. I really began pushing myself, doing things I never would have done; which in turn gave me the mindset that I need to be pushing myself regardless of whether or not it’s for my
Towards the middle of my tenth grade year in high school I learned of the decision my family had made that we were moving that upcoming summer. At first I was very excited, anxious to leave my hometown and start fresh. However, as the moving date came closer, I became more and more anxious, realizing everything I was leaving behind. Up until that point, having been born and …show more content…
In Florida, my whole life I had attended Christian private schools, from kindergarten through my sophomore year. Therefore, I had no clue what to expect, and would come to see how my past somewhat sheltered life wasn’t so sheltered anymore. It was a rude awakening when it came to seeing how my (this) generation really is. Besides the social factor of school, I was faced with a major setback that I had to deal with and continuing to deal with. After my first couple visits with my counselor I had found at that the school’s grading system used a seven point scale, whereas the other used a ten point scale. I didn’t realize just how bad it was until I saw how it caused my GPA to go from a 3.5 and above, to dropping down to a 3.0. After letting that sink in for a while, it didn’t take long before I realized the classes I was currently taking weren’t doing anything for my GPA, even though I was making all A’s and B’s. So by the second semester I looked for opportunities that might help such as joining a few Honors classes, as well as taking two college classes that summer. I really began pushing myself, doing things I never would have done; which in turn gave me the mindset that I need to be pushing myself regardless of whether or not it’s for my