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Senior Year Challenges
My mother once told me that problems were beneficial because they allow growth within our lives. This was her response to my constant complaining of the problems that surfaced in school and my social life. At that point in my life I had no idea on what she meant but now I have a better understanding of my mother’s words.

Throughout the years, I have never struggled academically. I was able to pass almost every class with at least a B letter grade with little to no effort. But my junior year was a complete flip of what I was accustomed too. I was aware that my junior year was going to be difficult because of the amount of Advanced Placement classes I enrolled in, but I was not mentally prepared for the school year. I realized that
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The two semesters during my junior year had done so much damage to my grade point average that I can not settle to leave them that way. During the first quarter of my senior year I have used my past experiences from last year to ensure that I won’t go through the same struggles academically that I had encountered. I developed a better strategy to balance athletics , academics, and college applications making the problems I experienced last year a thing of the past. Using strategies such as using my lunch period as a study hall to work on any upcoming assignments or applications, coming to tutoring sessions in the morning, carefully choosing my classes for my senior year so that I won’t feel strained by advanced placement classes, and using more outside recources to my advantage such as khan academy have helped me come closer to my goal of graduating highschool with a grade point average over four and going to college on a full ride scholarship. These problems that I loathed have led me to refocus and strive to be the most successful sports agent in the world. Similar to a muscle the only way to grow in any aspect of life is to test it with new problems, and the biggest problem I have is to be successful in life, and I am determined to solve this

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