I admit it: skipping class is wrong. It’s dangerous, bad for yourself and your grades, and it doesn’t really help you if you have anxiety, I’ve come to find out. The main question is: Why and is it worth it? Why do people do it? There’s a variety of reasons of why from, “Hey let’s go smoke! Drink! Do drugs! I’m just a couch potato! I rely on the internet for giving me the will to live!” (Those are among the most common) but some kids really don’t mean any harm. I mean, the first thought through my head was, “Hey, it’s only one day of class. No harm done!” Guess what. There was a lot- I’m talking about a LOAD- of harm done. The thing is, is that I really wasn’t thinking this whole school year about how much I could handle. I was more thinking …show more content…
We really don’t. Some of us had plans. Plans to go to a nice college. Some of us had dreams and goals to make in life, but when you’re sitting here failing all your classes but chorus… Chorus! The one thing I’m good at! Look at that. I can’t go to the good college I want to go to because of my failing academics, but at least I’m passing chorus! The one thing I’m good at. Heck, it’s the only thing I’m good at. I thought I was good at English. My mom wanted that to be my backup plan. She said if all else failed I could be a writer. Looks like I’m not good enough to be a writer. I have flowing thoughts that more jump forwards, backwards, and do back flips in my brain, but they don’t really seem to flow. All of the things I write are in the heat of the moment. Usually after I write I’m exhausted. I am …show more content…
Now I have anxiety and I’m worried, because I’m failing 3 out of 4 classes. I didn’t notice until all of this went down, in all honesty. So… is there a step after exhaustion? Is there a step after this? Is there a step above being exhausted? A step between being exhausted and collapsing? There must be. If there is, that’s where I am. It gets to the point of where my anxiety is so high that I can’t even focus enough to do my work. So now my grades will sink even more. I don’t want to be held back. I had plans to graduate May of 2020, I had plans to go to college at UCLA, or even NYU, maybe Ithaca! Those are all lost now, aren’t they. Who knew something as trivial as skipping could cause what feels like my whole life collapsing. As I said before: skipping is wrong. Don’t do it. Especially if you are fragile in every aspect of your being. If you skip then, your whole life may collapse. In the end, I do feel like next year, whether I’m in 9th grade still, or 10th, I’m cutting back on the extracurriculars. I piled on so much more than I can handle. Skipping is bad, but so is not having a hold on yourself. Skipping just made everything topple over. For your transcript’s sake, don’t
My transition into high school was as easy as taking a breath. I had always found school quiet easy and I never had to put much effort into getting promising grades. Before high school I had my whole life figured out, or at least I thought I did. I had planned that I would attend a law school or major in English. After a while of being in high school I started to realize many things. My parents did not have the financial stability to send me to a law school, I was not as smart as all the other kids, little by little I began struggling with a negative mentality about myself and my future. I slowly let go of my dream of becoming a lawyer and decided to join the Health Careers Academy. Soon enough, I began to have a deep interest in the medical field but then again I continued to have the same question; how can I afford going to a medical school? I did not know much about college or what it took to get into college. I assumed I just had to have a pretty transcript and that was all it took. My self confidence began to lower as I saw how other students cruised through their high school years so effortlessly. I never wanted to ask for help because I did not want to seem “dumb”. I would bite my tongue and hold in all the unanswered questions I had. My junior year, I was having a very difficult time. I had a tight schedule which consisted of almost all AP or honors courses. I slowly began to give up because I did not believe that I could do it. I let my grades slip failing almost
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.
As soon as I stepped into school of junior year the only words I heard were college and SAT. After my first meeting with college guidance I began questioning my success. My average was about a 70 and that was not getting me into college. For the past two years I was focusing on clubs and commissions and now my grades began to hit me. I knew I had to get to work as soon as possible. I began by putting more time and effort into my schoolwork and putting a break on my commissions, school was my new focus. After my long and tiring 10 hour days of school I would only come back to study for more hours till I felt I knew my stuff at the top of my head. I began to appreciate learning new things and being a studios student. I began to connect to some of my classes and grew a passion for them advanced studio art, nutrition, and English. I became confident with my school work and was able to join new commissions and balance my school work with my commissions. Choices commission was my favorite,helping my peers make the right choices in their lives. It was the same in senior year I was taking Ap psychology and it wasn't the easiest class but it was something I enjoyed and I loved being challenged by some of it. After fall semester of senior year my average was an 83.286 about 15 points higher than my fall semester in freshmen year which was a 68.17. I was thrilled, I felt accomplished, this was a new peak of success for
The Univesity rules are very iprotant, and every student should follow the rules. It is important because those roles will improve the ejucation system. The question beening asked is that the student should be required to attend classes, or the student going to classes shouldbe optional. I believe that going to the classes should be optional for to reasones.
For students, almost everyday begins by attending school. There are some students who excel and some who do not. The problem that is now faced is that the students who do not excel in school, are being rewarded for something they have not earned. These students are being passed to the next grade, but have not learned the necessary material. If students are failing, they should be held back because they are not truly passing, it is unfair to other students, and consequences will be learned.
The reason of why we should have more days off of school and why we should add 15 minutes to our day. Kids these days are working harder than they have before. Our teachers and parents think more highly of us than ever. Good grades, better friends, and higher in sports. We are being pushed and shoved everywhere. So us kids need more days off of school.
Another extenuating circumstance to my poor grades was extensively mental. I know I have the competency and the ambition to be a prosperous student here at Central Washington. I am so close to being done and I hate that I have squandered so much valuable time. I was diagnosed with ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) a year and a half ago, but consequently, do to certain circumstances was unable to get the aid I needed. I figured since I’ve
I believe that students should not be required to take more classes in career-oriented subjects. During your college years, it is very rare that students finish with the same major they started with going into college. For example, my aunt went into college wanting to be a news anchor, and finished with a major in business management. Another reasoning is this would limit the expansion of knowledge that students get in school.
For about four years, I have worked very very very hard on my grades that I’ve earn every semester. I had all A’s , B’s and three C’s and that’s okay. Hopefully I will work extremely hard in the next few more months on my senior year to come before I graduate high school. I got a 3.6 right now but I am praying that I could get at least a 3.8 or a 4.0! At the end of the year. Keeping up with my grades has been stressing, and struggling for me as well. Because it’s high school. It’s very important for me to stay focused on my school work so I could get a better education in order to get into a higher colleges. I’m not here to fail! I have never failed in my whole life cause that’s not who I’m am at all. I’m smart, independent,
One of the things I learned in summer school was the importance of being here. One reason people fail classes is because they do not show up to it. Having to get up during my summer break made me realize that showing up is not that hard at all. When you show up and do what you’re supposed to do or at least put in the effort, you’re going to pass. Also not showing up may not just affect
It’s seems to me like nobody wanted to see me graduating but I had to much confident in myself to let people see my failure that wasn’t going to happen I had something to prove. All I could picture in my head is my cap and gown, that stage of me walking across my assistant principal always use to pick and talk down on me she told me I won’t graduate from Chamberlain. She used to find something to suspend me about such as wearing crazy shirts, too much money on me also my tank tops. Also me not passing my reading test stop me from getting my diploma and starting college. Sometimes I feel everything be going wrong so that I won‘t success and be somebody in life but I’m going keep striving until get what I want and that’s to start school. For example I had to do the Penn foster program so that I can get my credits in reading for the questions I missed so I started going to school every day and week just to get my 5 credits. Finally I achieved getting my credits so that I can start school but the only thing I keep having to do is to edit my essay it’s like I wanted to rip out my lungs and cry because I came a long way and I keep giving it my all and keep having to do the essay over and over, but I’m not giving up I got to keep putting effort in my work till I reach the
During the end of my 1st semester of sophomore year, I felt as if everything was falling apart. It was my low point throughout my high school career, and I just received my grades for the current quarter of classes. I will be honest; it was a whopping grade point average of about 2.6. Once, I saw this. I did not lose it as much as others would have. Instead, I looked at this and said to myself, “what can I do differently moving forward.” The second semester started, and I know I had to do better whatever the challenges that I face this time around: and so I did. I was able to
What is the potential impact, of you not taking your grades seriously, second semester this year? To begin with, A potential impact of me not taking my grades seriously this second semester, is most likely, more APEX classes for me, not walking with my peers during graduation, and not getting my High school diploma. I’ve actually been thinking about this, for a while, and I’ve accepted the fact that, if that happens, it’s because I deserve it. I didn’t do what was expected of me, I didn't measure up to people's expectations of me. I’ve stuck to the Idea that It will happen, and that has been ruining my motivation this whole year. even though I know for a fact what is wrong, I really don’t know what to do about it, I can fix it, but It will
The transition from middle school to high school was difficult for me. I’d gone to very a progressive middle school where the students basically got to choose their own curriculum. I’d never had grades or a standard structure of any kind to measure my academic performance. Saint Mary’s, my high school, is college prep so the teachers move quickly, I am graded on everything, and expectations in general are much higher. For all of ninth grade I felt like I had been tossed into the deep end without knowing how to swim, and my grades reflected that mentality. Summer before tenth grade, I knew I couldn’t continue performing so poorly, so I began to study and to try and get a jump start on the next year’s curriculum. When school started I put much
About halfway through my creative writing degree, I had an existential crisis. Ever since I read Letters to a Young Contrarian at the age of thirteen – ignore that I only understood about twenty percent of it at the time – I knew I wanted to be a writer. Christopher Hitchens’ words inspired me and sparked a love of literature and intellectual honesty that persists to this day. However, as weeks turned into months in class, I kept thinking, do I even want to be a writer, and if so, what stories do I want to tell? These thoughts remained and grew louder, creating a mental block that impacted my creativity and thus made the plethora of writing assignments I was given more unbearable. It was a vicious cycle that led me down a path of self-reflection