For many years I was scared to go to college because I thought I wasn’t college material. Hearing Capitan Mark Kelly speak about being an underachiever, and a “not so great” student really helped me see that light at the end of the tunnel. When final build up the courage with in myself, I enrolled into San Jacinto College. The only thing that stood in the way was that standardize test. I had to take the entry exam after five years of not being in school.
I started school by failing first grade. The teacher noticed that I had learning problem, or was it? I was transferred to what allot of people call a restarted school. But the correct term is a slow school for the mentally challenged. During the years that I was going to this school, I was excelling in all subjects, receiving all A’s.
My ninth grade was pretty cool until the last week of school I let my mouth get the best of me and said some things that I really should’ve not said and because I did I earned the next semester at the alternative school. When school started back I was very sad because I had to go to the “bad” school with all the “bad” kids and I was very nervous. Once I got there it was pretty cool and I really enjoyed it because the classes were smaller and you got more one on one help. My grades went up and my mom decided that I should spend the rest of the year there, which really messed me up because they did not offer any elective classes only the basics . My eleventh grade year was also a disaster because of the struggle of passing my biology state test and I was really distracted and just wanted to go back to the alternative school but my mom and the principle would not send me back.
Similar to Sedaris’ situation, I have also experienced disappointment when commitments were suddenly shattered and I have been forced to cope with the irreparable change in my relationship with an unreliable person. In my freshman year of high school, I was thrilled that my best friend, Kate, and I would be finally attending the same school. We had been best friends since kindergarten and were inseparable. She knew all my secrets and I knew hers. Soon after the school year began, I found out how much a person can change and how this change can affect your future friendship with
Attending High School is challenging in a way where you don’t know who you are have bad influence’s and as well good and you know what is good and bad for you. I have attended Gadsden High for the last past three years going to my fourth year and last, my grades have been up and down stress is the major thing when you are a senior and you had failed when you were a freshmen leaving all the things to last minute. I’ve failed f previously because I didn’t even care for my future so I just didn’t do anything I didn’t care if I passed or fail but when you are going into older age you see you’re self-different and you start getting prepared for what is called the “Real World”! You start changing you see you’re future starting to prepare for it looking at what you want to become to succeed in life be someone and for making your parents proud of you for them to see you finally did
Overall middle school was the worst two years of my life. It was the stage of immaturity, peer pressure, confusion and overprotection. I would do anything not to go back and just skip through everything because I became who I am now in the next five years of my life. Those two years were a waste of time because we all tried to be kids who were cool and hip, now realizing what really mattered. Being
Brennan High School has a level system five being the best one being the worst. The only time I was ever on level five was my junior year. Junior year was a little bit better for me except I went to another psych ward for the third time I was definitely my worst enemy. I was there for depression and anxiety also suicidal thoughts, and that was the first year I’ve ever cut myself. I don’t remember why I cut myself but it made me feel better that I was causing my own pain and in those moments I felt relieved that no one else was hurting me but myself.
Also two of my brothers still went to this school with this address on file. I was pretty much fed up with high school at that point. So I got my GED a few years later. School has been hard for me since but I am finally getting past it. I cannot even picture where I would be in life right now.
I struggled with my classes with the little support I was given; I became dissatisfy with school. I lost interest, my teachers stopped engaging my imaginations in wanting to keep learning “I got very good at watching a blackboard with minimum awareness” (Rose19). I gave up; I stopped trying and dropped out of high school in my twelfth
INTRODUCTION: The following research project is a summation of the various modes of research that I have conducted in order to test my hypothesis. The final year of schooling holds a large amount of stress and anxiety for every student. It is a year of constant pressure and many students are unable to cope with the stress of the upcoming finals and the chance of rejection from university. Many students pursue different methods in order to reduce their levels of anxiety. My hypothesis is that concentration medication does not reduce stress in teenagers and I came to desire to test such a hypothesis upon hearing of an experience of one of my school friends, who will be kept anonymous for ethical purposes.