Poor decisions
April 19, 2019 Uncategorized 9 comments kbenziger18
In my first three years of high school I made a lot a dumb and very bad decisions academically. I just thought without doing any work in life I would amount out to something thinking everything would be just like middle school. I realized that it wasn’t like middle school at all and thought it was better because you could do what you want without any teachers telling you what to do which was partially true because teachers didn’t chase you down anymore to do work if you didn’t put effort in they wouldn’t put in any effort to help you succeed. Sophomore year was just horrible timing with both of my grandmothers passing within 5 months of each other it was hard for me to focus on them and stay caught up on school at the same time so I picked spending time with my grandmothers over school work which I don’t know if that was the right or wrong but I went with my gut and spent the little amount of time I had with my grandmothers that I had left. I think in my whole sophomore year I got two credits and it was the easiest classes and for sure was not English. People give me crap for not graduating on time but its funny to me how quick people can be to assume how things happen when they don’t know you or anything about the situation. I have freshmen tell me that I’m a super senior and I’ve never even seen them before nor do I know there name. Junior year is when I began to get my stuff together I realized that I need to have the credits to graduate and without them I wouldn’t be able to graduate. My parents would be mad and upset with me and just living a home would be rough for a little bit. Senior year guidance told me there was no way I was graduating and my parents were aggravated with me and home was weird for a while I did everything I could do to get out of the house and not be home so everything wouldn’t be so awkward. I think what everyone could learn from my mistakes is that you need to listen what your teachers, your friends, and your family says to you. You’re going to say that it won’t happen to me and I will graduate to yourself all the time and your friends and family will tell you that you need to do your work but the biggest thing is about graduating and the one. Important thing is just doing a little bit of homework every night not even a lot of time just 45 minutes at night Sunday though Thursday and take the weekends off and have fun.
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I understand where your coming from of course school is trial and error. Ive asked myself over and over again why I had not done this assignment or this one on this or that day. Everything happens for a reason of course but just remember in life nothing comes easy there are obsticles and high school is certaintly one of them. no matter what life throws at you just remeber who you are and where you came from this is for you no one else.
Everyone has there way of getting through difficult times. I think your sophomore year you did the right thing and you may have not gotten everything you could have but when you lose someone you don’t have them ever again.
This is good insight given. It’s not an easy road to go down High School isn’t exactly easy and a lot of the time people don’t realize until after the fact that “Hey I suppose I need to just get this done and do this”. Which isn’t exactly a bad thing it’s rough but I feel like it definitely makes people stronger and they also have a better outlook in life. Most of the time for almost everyone we all have a situation in life where we didn’t realize what we wanted until it’s too late but that just means next time around we just try even harder and soon enough you’ll get it. I’m not great at school either but I applied to college and got accepted which I said my whole entire life that I was not going to college. I found this new outlook though similar to what you found and now I want to do good and start my life.
This apart of being young. you do not know think about the important things in life. then you start to realize the important things in life. this post is really true because we were all young at one time a made many mistakes.
Great post Khol. Im glad you got your stuff together and will be graduating very soon. I think you did a very good job telling the story and not leaving any detail out as I followed along very easily. Don’t listen tot the haters as they say. Keep doing you and trying your best and success will come. Great job man!
This was good, the people reading this can get a lot from your essay you wrote. You have a lot to offer here and you showed us a little bit of what you went through. You’re right nobody really knows what anyone is going through and guess what? We can’t stop the world from assuming because no matter what it’s going to happen. At least you laugh and can find it funny for the people that just assume. Because them assuming doesn’t do anything to your life, let them assume what they want and you keep grinding towards your goals.
I think you are right. Im sorry about your grandmothers and im glad you got to cherish the time you had left with them, but bin the long run it did not do you much good for school. I know that it is not completely your fault but your time managing could have maybe been adjusted to help. But dont get me wrong we all get behind at some point in high school. It just depends on how we handle the situation from there on out.
I see exactly where you are coming from in high school I definitely have not been the best I have procrastinated even right now but I have decided I need to get all my stuff together. MY grandfather has heart problems and he only has what they said 3 months to live and that scares me so I want him to at least see me graduate high school and turn into the man he wants me to be.
This is a very interesting and something a lot of people including myself could learn from. Everyone makes mistakes and it doesn’t matter what you do with those mistakes as long as you learn from them. This is something that everyone could learn from.