The Human Body Affected Me

Throughout most of high school I was just focusing on ‘learning’ and then forgetting after I completed the test or the class. At the beginning of my senior year I started taking Anatomy and automatically took a liking into learning about the human body and all the cool things I never knew about. I think the main reason I actually enjoy going to anatomy is because I can understand it, my mom knows a lot about it and I want to go into the medical field and work a lot with the body. I think that if someone enjoys what they are learning, education can be fun and can ‘light a fire’ in someone’s schooling.

My senior year in high school is when I really started to care about my grades and studying for classes because I was going to be in school for at least 6 more years. I figured that I should just find a way to enjoy school for what it was and try to enjoy it as best as I can. W.B. Yeats said that “education is not the filling of a pail” but for most of my life that is all it was, retaining information, letting my pail/brain fill up and then through the summer the pail would empty, and restart the next year. Mrs. Boucher and Anatomy really opened up my brain and ignited that fire in my education

When anatomy started I realized that I was going to have to actually sit down at night and study for tests. This mind set started to carry over into other classes too, I started doing my homework, studying and caring about my grades. Since I started caring and focusing on school I have been having really good grades and seeing just how well I can actually do if I try. After semester one I received high honors getting all A’s in my classes and most over a ninety-five, I realized that I was not the dumb blonde everyone says I am. If I apply myself I can actually be really smart, just most of my high school I did not care enough to try.

Growing up school was always hard for me, I felt like I had to compete with my brothers and live up to their grades. Both my brother are very smart in school, schooling came easy to them; I struggled and needed extra help growing up. When I started to anatomy and over succeeding and getting nothing below a ninety-four on my tests I realized that I was not doing well because it was not something that I enjoyed and was naturally good at, but I am when it comes to anatomy. I realized that I am just as smart as my brothers but learning does not come as easy to me as it does with them.

After one semester of getting good grades and working hard at my education i have realized that not only am I smarter than I think, but also I am capable of furthering my education in the hard and competitive field of pre-medicine. I believe that if someone enjoys or really wants to put the time in, they can achieve just about anything they want. Yes, it is very hard and time consuming, but in the end not only is it worth it, but it feels good to complete something you never thought was possible and be able to say that you did it on your own. The human body changed my view of my education and lit a fire in my heart that blazes like a campfire on a hot summer night in August. Photo on Foter.com