Own Mistakes Short Story

That moment when you look around and your thoughts start to wonder and question the many things around. It would always bother me not knowing what it does or how it does it. It was like that song that gets stuck in your head the whole day.But I was different, almost as that feeling to want to learn was stripped away.My whole senior year was me just me trying to make it pass the day. Everything was frustrating to me nothing made sense because the teachers expected you to know already but how could I possibly know that if all my teachers did was sit at their desk without a word almost as if they were like statues.Why should even try if I know I don't understand the subject. Just like Mike Rose said in the story "Reject confusion and frustration by openly defining yourself as the common Joe"(pg#3). We both were placed in system that really didn't expanded our minds but minimize them to point were we accept that fact we should dumb ourselves down. I felt that maybe that this was the best way to take on my studies and let it occupy me instead of letting me roam free in this vast world of knowledge. I regret even till this day of letting myself believe that I was better off in this dreadful loop of constant

that moment, every day, I realize that everything I do is not for me but for my two boys that God

I knew from the moment I woke up that something was wrong. Well, not exactly wrong, but something was definitely off. Usually, I’d wake up early in the morning to the sound of my dad’s booming voice, complaining about how hard work was and how little money we managed to make a month. He’d be at the table, a bottle of alcohol in his hands instead of milk because it was cheaper, starting his day off with his daily shouting at Mom before going to the office as one of the men who worked as a government official.

Lack of motivation is when a student losses interests in his/her college education. Lack of motivation is caused by the stress college students develop when they are brought into. These situations are caused by not dedicating enough time to their studies. If first generation college students spent the time they spent worrying about other things for their studies. As a result of not dedicating enough time to their studies first generation college students face this lack of motivation barrier.

Me and my family started noticing how it kept on getting harder and harder for me to catch on to certain information the teacher would say and I never could retain little facts.

Ever heard the saying, “Learn from your mistakes,” or a different variation, such as when a parent or guardian tells a child, “I am trying to save you from repeating the mistakes I made,”? The root of this timeless phrase lies in the ability of humans to make the same choices over and over across generations. Through the analysis of historic events and ideals that are still causing a stir to this day, such as Thomas Jefferson’s deism, the Emoluments Clause in the United States Constitution, and The Great Wave print, one can learn a great deal about the world in which he or she lives.

I lacked critical thinking skills and I believed everything teachers told me with no questions asked. I never questioned why a certain concept was true. Nor have I asked a teacher to prove to me why we use this method over the next, so I never fully understood the concepts as well as I thought I knew them. Time management was impossible for me. I was involved in so much and I never made enough time for my studies.Cramming concept after concept on the day before an exam and pulling all nighters day after day was not enough for me. Something had to give. My grades weren’t improving and my knowledge in each course wasn’t up to par.

Hey, I couldn’t really make it to the meeting yesterday. I really just had to much to do last night. When you’re a self-employed artist owning a cat, things don’t go as planned. Did I also mention I own a dog too, because that’s pretty important in why I couldn't make it to AA. So, oil paint is my favorite medium. I have this beautiful canvas I’m painting for David Bowie, its of Queen Elizabeth. Her luscious white hair, probably one of the most consolidated images I have ever had the opportunity to paint in my life. Oil paint, is one difficult medium to remove off of cat fur. My little munchkin cat, Miss Moo Moo, spontaneously catapulted straight into my bowl of paint I was currently using. This paint, chalky as can be,

I could never get it right and I always got screamed at for it. I used to take tests read the passage and the go to the questions and read the questions wrong and mark the wrong answer. Then my mom would be mad at me and we would try to fix it at home and she would get so frustrated because I just could not do it. I just could not interpret words correctly. At times I used to think that if I acted like and walked like and ate what all the “smart kids” ate then I would become smart

All my life I have been a lazy person, doing just enough to get by. Most of the time, in high school, I was content with just a “C”. The only time I wasn’t, was if it was a class I liked, and I paid attention to. If this was the case, I could have received a 99% on a test and been dissatisfied. But, for the rest of my classes, which were most of my classes, that I didn’t like, I never paid attention to or did homework, and I still managed to do well on tests. So basically I didn’t do anything except take tests and I still got satisfactory grades. In school I was so lazy that there could have been a project due worth about 20% of the final grade and I still wouldn’t do it.

Soon, I discovered a method to avoid the potential of feeling insubstantial, if only for a few more hours or days. Thus, allow me to introduce you to an old friend, procrastination. My way of thinking soon became, “If I’m not going to get an A, then why even put the effort in?” and consequently, innumerable assignments were put off until five in the morning where it would be due in two hours or it would never reach my teacher’s hands at all. I’m sure most teachers believed the cause to be laziness or a lack of ambition, however I strongly believe that if they’d known the constant stress, self-doubt, and exhaustion that I

From an early age I found learning hard and in my early educational years I

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