Personal Narrative: A Caring Community Empowering Student Success

I am a hardworking student. I have been for most of my life. However, I never imagined the difficulty of keeping up my grades, which later proved to be my biggest mistake. My grades steadily declined before I could realize it. My GPA was at an all time low of 2.7, and at the time, I didn’t care. I just thought to myself that it was not a big deal and I will try harder next year. In fact, it was a big deal, and I did not try harder next year. My first two years of highschool I did the bare minimum. I would complete my school work, homework, and test with minimum effort. I remember when assigned group projects, I would only do a small role, forcing my partners to pick up my slack. I was digging myself a hole that I couldn’t get out off. I
It was when I realized I should've never stopped trying. Because when I did it lowered my GPA and would look bad on my transcript. This wouldn’t just affect me now but in my future too. That if I didn’t make a change today where would I go tomorrow. I made a change and I applied to be an ACCESS mentor. ACCESS is an acronym for “A Caring Community Empowering Student Success”. That was just what it was. It was a group of upperclassmen that spent time at the end of their day to help freshmen better adjust to high school. First you have to apply to it and that only a handful are selected. The ones selected then go through training. The lead mentors have more training than the rest. Each lead mentors then has 2 or 3 co mentors per Access. The mentors jobs are to teach incoming freshmen about the rules and about time management for high school. My junior year I was a co mentor and become a lead mentor the following year. I became an Access mentor not only for myself. I did it to teach incoming Freshmen my mistakes and how they can’t make the same ones. Statically Freshmen have the lowest grades of all the grade levels. I was one of them and if I can make a difference I