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My High School Career Research Paper

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Prior to writing this essay, I sat down with my mom to come up with ideas on stories that have made me who I am today. That is when I realized I have made more personal growth in the past four years of my high school career that I have before this period of time. I am ending my high school career with more knowledge than I ever expected. Major changes in my life have affected my high school career, but a large impact came from the death of my father in eighth grade. Before his passing, I was an average A/B student in middle school and even elementary school, which quickly changed in 8th grade when my classes became too hard for me to handle. I decided the best thing for my mental health was to drop out of my higher level classes. This lead to being in standard classes throughout my first year of high school with minimal effort from my part. After constantly missing school, I failed my second quarter. Instead of bouncing back from this, it pushed me down, making me believe I would never be able to recover. Without any motivation, I ended my ninth grade year with a grade point average of 1.4. In the years to come, I started to find myself through the help of my family, friends and my …show more content…

I am currently enrolled in three AP courses and made the Distinguished Honor Roll for the first marking period of the 2016-2017 school year. Because I’ve been able to learn from my mistakes I will enhance the values of Towson University through making more personal growth, allowing me to help those around me by being proof that you should never give up on yourself. Although I spent the past months questioning whether I should even bother applying to college because of my below average GPA, I know that have grown and changed. I know what I am now capable of accomplishing. Knowing that it was never too late to change my future has made me the person I am

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