Struggles Throughout High School

When I was failing my reading class I tried to do as much as I possibly could. I went to tutoring to do missing work. Although, I only had a C in that class for like the entire year, that's all that matter to me because I was passing. I tried to turn things on time, which I mostly did expect when I was gone for the day. When I didn’t understand something I’d ask for help, which I had a big problem with asking for help in the beginning of the year because it made me feel dense.

"A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying." B. F. Skinner. Everyone fails at one thing or another in one point of his or her life; it's a characteristic of being a human. But, it's not about how we fail; it's about how we're able to cultivate our past failures to elaborate on to future success.

I would struggle with mishearing words, forgetting tenses and verb meanings. This made Spanish stressful, and my teacher’s advice was to study more, but I felt I could not do it. I tried my best on every assignment, and hoped for the best. Luckily, I passed the class with a B, but I learned afterwards that B could have been A if I actually tried new methods or even went to see the counselor. I still look regret not pushing myself, but I remember I was not the only one.

The biggest failure I experienced was back during my Sophomore year. The hardest class in the high school was AP World History in which the requirements were hours of homework a night. Many people tried to convince me not to take the course due to the fact that it is considered the hardest class in the high school. My mom tried her hardest to try and persuade me to take a different class but I felt that it was a requirement for me to take it to prove to the colleges that I was up for the task and that I was prepared to do the work necessary to succeed in college. The course required reading a whole chapter in the text book in three days and take a quiz to prove that we read and understood the topics. This is where I struggled the most because memorizing the chapters and the major topics was very difficult unlike others who could recited the

I was about to face my greatest challenge in my new life. How to fit in with people in middle school. Arriving in America was already hard to adjust, what more can it be with my school life. It was in August when my school started. I was already nervous, and I haven’t even step foot from this mysterious school that I’m about to spend 2 years of my life.

“You are not good enough.” Those are five words; no child or adult ever wants to hear or tell themselves. On the other hand, life will always be filled with occasions like these where we believe life plainly just sucks; where people, including ourselves, will believe we are so worthless, insignificant, and dim-witted that we are incapable of achieving something grand. In fact, no matter how much we deny it, these are the experiences that will always stick with us and affect us in one way, big or small. Yet, the thing many of us fail to discover is that the best opportunities come from these moments where proving we are capable of something is most vital. Thus, I have gone through many obstacles in elementary school that I am proud of because it has carved the successful and fortunate person I am today in school and life.

My educational past has had its good and bad days. In early grades school was easy and school was enjoyable. Somewhere along the line I lost my talent and things went south quickly. For some reason I kept telling myself studying wasn’t necessary because of how well I did in the past. In the sixth grade we had our first math test. I figured why study, I’m smart, all the answers will come right to me. I start the test and immediately start struggling. I couldn’t remember anything and of course when I got it back, it was an F. After receiving that F, I realized things have changed and I must put forth much more effort. Math for me was never the same after that moment. I started struggling with memorizing the equations and my grade suffered. One thing I needed to realize was I didn’t have all the knowledge. In the past, my education has been a little rocky.

I have never failed any classes, but have never been a good student. Most of this was due to my lack of motivation when it mattered. If I was interested in the subject, I generally did well in it, because I was motivated. If I wasn’t, I skimmed by in the class. One thing I have realized is that you can’t do that in college. You either get your work done or you don’t, it’s that simple. Keeping myself motivated to do assignments is probably the single most challenging thing about coming to college. But when I get work done, I also have to make sure not to lose

The struggles I have faced this semester are mostly in my large lectures. The reason for this is because it’s hard for me to concentrate and understand what my professor is teaching. The way I have been able to overcome this is by either going to the professor’s office hours or asking my peers to explain. Another struggle I

While in LFDCS, I struggled all 9 years. The first two years of elementary school were easy, but once I entered second grade from there till 8th grade Math was one of the many subjects I had difficulty on. One might think how does one struggle to do second-grade math. Well, I was the kid in class who had to be excused to go take a walk to the bathroom or have a teacher sit next to me bringing my attention back to class every now and then and making sure I was completing my

In my 7th-grade history class, I was having trouble with my assignments. At the start of the year, it was all easy for me, but over time, it became difficult. The reason was that I couldn’t understand what’s happening when reading the passage in the textbook. Therefore, I felt that I couldn’t overcome understanding what the tests are saying. I would have just stared at the passages like a hawk during my tests. Eventually, I stopped doing my homework and studying for tests as a result of thinking it was useless to try. At the end of that semester, my grade was a D since I was slacking off. I was truly shocked when I saw my grade because I believed I was going to fail everything.

The class didn’t even feel very challenging from the course load so my issues baffled me. I finally realized the difficulty came from myself and how my work ethic, in terms of academics, needed a dramatic upgrade. I started studying my textbook outside of school on nightly, I found helpful online study tools I began using, and did practice tests and essays in my free time. I improved massively in history and my grades and success reflected this. I was even able to pass the AP test for the subject and attain college credit. I used this experience and these new tools in many classes during my junior year and felt I’d never struggle in a class again. This introduced me to AP Physics

At last, I worked my way to take my final required math class which was college algebra. I felt a great sense of accomplishment to have succeeded after failing several times. My persistence and determination helped me proceed but the college algebra was extremely difficult. I barely understood the intermediate algebra course that I previously worked hard in to get a passing grade, so I was ultimately afraid of what would be ahead. I received all failing grades on my tests and I felt discouraged to continue. Due to my failure, I dropped the class because I knew that it would of been a better choice rather receiving an F on my transcript. Then I challenged myself and I took the same college algebra course with another professor and it was an intermediate class that lasted 4 hours. I practiced my course material as much as possible outside of the hectic schedule that I had to work around. Eventually, I once again barely passed with a C. I realized that I was not successful because I was not genuinely interested In math and I didn't understand it well. I tried my best to practice as much homework as I could, I stayed up hours and repeated several math problems in hopes of understanding

1. Family problem – family issues affect students performance in school as students are not cognitively developed but psychologically,emotionally, or affectionately developed too therefore if they are in a bad state or when family issues such as child abuse,sibling rivalry and many more are burdened on students there is the possibility for the student to flop especially in a case where the student is an excellent child.

High school is full of many twists and turns and no one knows exactly what's going to happen in high school. There can be many things that can help to have a simple high school life but there is also things that can make it harder. I am going to be talking about three of my hardships I have faced during high school.