Well This Could Have Gone Better

This story is a mistake that happened to me at the end of the last school year, and I’ve kind of started to repeat  it. The end of the last school year was probably the most stressful year of my life, but it didn’t start out that way. At the beginning of the year I only had one major problem… Membean. It was the bane of my existence, as it has been since I started doing it my freshman year. But soon after the start of my Junior year every other class was fine besides one, English. Through the first semester English didn’t go too badly. I did well on assignments and passed them in on time or not much after the due date besides a few assignments which stressing I did get by with about a week to spare.

Second semester was where everything went downhill, and is what I consider to be one of the biggest mistakes of my high school career. The second semester as a whole was yet again great besides again English. I did none of my work and come the last two weeks of the semester was severely behind. Nobody thought that I would pass, not even myself. With  that large challenge of an entire semester of English ahead of me, I got to work. Day by day I got more and more done and managed to get most things right on the first or second try with fairly good grades, I might add. I caused so many people in my family stress and anger, including myself, my mom, and my dad. On top of that I caused so much work and grading for my teacher. Overall I regret my decision so much and in coming years and through the rest of my life I will always remember that and continue to try my best to stay on top of things. And yes, that even includes Membean.

This happening taught me that I need to be responsible for my learning, and for other things in my life. When I am not this causes stress for me and the people close to me. From this experience it helped me learn that my actions have consequences for myself and the people that are close to me. My mom and dad had a rollercoaster of emotions from anger and disappointment to happiness and being overjoyed that I had passed on time.As my parents they just wanted what was best for me and were more than willing to help me in those two weeks accomplish what seemed like and insurmountable task. Through conversation with my mom I learned that she was just as stressed as I was about all of this, and my dad was mad at me too. When talking they would never yell, but they would tell me that they were disappointed that I let my education get to this point. After it was all over they expressed joy and happiness at the fact that I hadn’t had to go to summer school but we still had a conversation about how I need to stay on top of things this year as I am a senior and this year I am doing better than before. It is still an up and down process for me, and I will have to continue to work to get better at doing so.That there is how I almost failed English in my Junior

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