Before this class I was just kind of skipping through homework and doing it as late as I could possibly do it. I would do the homework on the bus or right before the class. I also tried to find other ways out of it like I forgot. That’s also not just with school work, that’s for anything like if I had to pack for a vacation I would do it right before we leave or if I had to do the laundry I would wait till like ten at night and then I was very tired the next day for if I had to do something the next day I would just hold it off till the next night and it would be this continuing cycle of constant pain and reactivness to the situation at hand. Now that this class is nearly over I feel that I am more into things and more proactive with anything that I do. I don’t do homework on the bus anymore I get it done usually when I get home or right after dinner. I also won’t do the homework right before class and I’m also taking my time and getting the right answers by doing good work. I also now have a good work ethic for school. I turn it in on time and I get work done during class so I don’t get in trouble. I also don’t do anything bad so I can’t get in trouble that way ether and I earned a student of the month for the first time and I’m going to honors night for the first time. Those are my biggest accomplishments for school ever and they both happened in the same year during when I had this class. Also before this class I was fighting with my parents about something’s but not a lot. We fought about the little things like if I could go outside but my mom says no we would just argue about that and she didn’t see my point of view and I didn’t see hers so it would just escalate to where I would get grounded. Now that I have taken th...
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...althy food and sometimes a little treat and I have good snacks in between meals and before I wouldn’t eat breakfast because I would wake up too late and now I get up earlier so that way I can have breakfast and get a shower and do anything else that I need to do and I can get to the bus stop faster and I won’t miss the bus.
I also learned that I don’t need to be any skinnier than I am right now and I don’t need to gain weight ether with the weight that I am and I know that I am perfect just the way I am now that I have taken personal decisions. Before this class I didn’t practice what I’m good at like sports and I would just go and play and there would always be somebody better than me and now I learned to sharpen the saw and work on what I’m good at like math and football and other sports and academics with what I do and now I’m like one of the best at what I do
It was time for grades to be do in all the classes. So, in every class I went to I did work I needed to do, except when there was a movie in that room. I tried to keep my focus on the work but I get distracted really easy. I usually turned in my work and I only had work to do in one class. I was missing four assignments in that class that was do, so when I got to that class we had option to go to a different class. Well, they were all playing movies except for one I didn't need to go to. One class had a movie I really wanted to finish and then the other rooms had movies that were good, except for the one I needed to go in. It had a movie that was about the book we were reading which I didn't really care for. It was the only class I needed to finish work in. I went to that class and the movie started. Once the movie started I knew I wasn't going to finish the assignments. I worked as hard as I could and tried not to get distracted. The closer it got to the end of class the better I felt about it and the more I believe in myself. By the end of the class I had gotten all my assignments done and I couldn't do it without my parents because they always push my to do my best and reward me if I do. And that was a time when I had to believe in
Early in the morning, twenty four years ago on the twelvth day in the month of July, a baby boy was born at St. Mary's hospital in Athens, Georgia. The Pollock household of three had grown by one. Jennifer, the new boy's three year old sister, had already named him. The new boy was to be called Jody Lamon Pollock. Jody was the name she picked, and Lamon was the mother's father's name. So this is how I came to be Mr. Jody Lamon Pollock.
Finally, I learned how to be more responsible by myself. In my last classes, my teachers were technically always there to tell me step by step what to do and how to do my assignments. In a certain way, it made me kind of lazy and entirely dependent of my teachers. However in this course it was not like that; instead, my instructor just gave me the assignments, instructions, and deadlines, and I must write my essays and summited it on time. This absence of guide absolutely made me to react that it was time to me to do my assignments by myself, demonstrate what I know, and ask for help just whenever it is
Lucky for me, I finally learned how to be healthy. It took longer than I would’ve liked but I don’t regret my journey. Learning what being healthy means made me the person I am today.
Entering my first year into high school my mind was juvenile I was not yet adjusted to the high school atmosphere. At the time I was still worried about the little things in school such as friends and associates. My first priority was never my work; it used to be entertainment over all. Along that came with my priorities came procrastination and that led to me delaying my assignments hoping for a teacher to give me a "second chance". Forthcoming, at the end of the second quarter my ninth grade year I received a rude awakening.
During my early education, meaning elementary school and middle school, I was a very average student. I gave an average amount of effort to my grades, and I received above average results. This did not bother me, until the end of my 8th-grade year. At this point in the year, I was filling out what classes I desired to take the following year, my freshman year. I realized that from this point forward, I had to take my education much more serious, in order to get accepted to whichever college I desired. therefore, when planning my classes, I decided to challenge myself more than I ever have in the past, and take multiple honors courses. I assumed because of my grades, that I had what it took to be an honors-level student, but I was very wrong. One teacher, Mrs. Johnson, made me realize the kind of effort, time and energy needed to be devoted to my education.
During 8th grade, I got called out to the counselor’s office. Entering the counselor’s office, the counselor told me that I was in the honors class. The day I graduated Junior High with honors changed the next 4 years in High school. I promised myself and my mom that I would be graduating High school with honors. For the past 4 years, I have worked so hard to be in the honors program, again. I started to take advanced classes and then I started to take dual credit classes my junior year. If it wasn’t for being in the honors program my 8th grade year, I don’t think I would be as worried about my grades as I am now.
One of the biggest lessons I've learned is to never give up and that everything in life happens for a reason. Throughout my entire life my dreams have been put down by society, wether it was a coach, friend, or family member. Everything I gain is because of me and only me. When I started my first year of high school, I knew I wasn't ready to maintain my academics, my social life, and my sports schedule all at once. I was completely intimidated by everything occurring in my life at the time.
I believe I qualify for National Honor Society. I have maintained my grades as high as I can. I always try my best. I never had a discipline referral, throughout my high school years. This year, which is my senior year, should have been the easiest year for me. Senior year should have been more of a relaxed year and not worry so much. Well, it is the opposite, I'm very stressed out already and it is barely the beginning of the school year. It is only stressful because I'm already taking three college classes in high school but I know I can do it. I'm pushing myself even more because I like the challenge. I believe in myself. Also, I have helped my community at church with many stuff like helping organize and setting up for events and help clean
A normal 14-year-old girl worries about impressing her friends, fitting in, and getting good grades. None of this came to the mind of Elizabeth Smart in her nine months of captivity. Elizabeth Smart was taken from her bedroom by Brian David Mitchell on June 5 of 2002. She was threatened, abused, and raped each and everyday within those nine months. On the night that she was taken she hiked up to the campsite that Brian David Mitchell has prepared. When they arrived Elizabeth Smart was introduced to his wife, Wanda Barzee.
I used to have a lot of trouble with Anxiety and Depression, these troubles caused me to feel handicapped through life and felt like many things I did were just too hard to deal with, even the most simple of things. In the past year I learned that you cannot let Anxiety and Depression control your life. These things can only control your life, if you allow them to control your life; and after being on anxiety and depression medication for years, I am finally coming off of the anxiety medication.
A baby’s life helps to form and shape the future for that child; this goes the same for me. My birth, my sign, and my name, all relate to the way I live and act today. Many people may not see this connection for themselves, but it takes a little bit of research and thinking to come to realize why people are the way they are. Every day and every action that a child experiences can influence their actions as an adult.
One of them was that I was on my journey with someone. I was on the journey with my boyfriend Dusty whom I have been with for four years. I am more like myself when I am with someone, especially Dusty, than when I am by myself. I do think that spending time with just yourself is a waste of time. You should just be out talking to people because who knows when that dreaded day of death will come. I think that you should just seize the moment and spend time with people. When I am by myself, I am quiet and withdrawn, but when I am with people, I talk up a storm and have a fun time just being me. I donÕt hold things back or try to act like someone IÕm not.
Living up to my resolution, I joined several clubs, both in and out of school and academic and recreational. I also met some of my very best friends in high school. Achieving all of this, friends, memberships to academic clubs and good grades, made up my first successful experience in high school. I was driven by the years in middle school and the promise that I made to myself at the end of eighth grade. Throughout my under classmen years I exceled in all subjects and thoroughly enjoyed the clubs I had joined. I think my downfall for the last two years of school was that I took for granted my good grades and as my classes got more rigorous I didn’t change the way I learned the material, but continued on the same path that I had been following my entire academic career, even when my grades were slipping slightly. Halfway through my senior year, I realized I needed to change the way I was learning the curriculum my instructors were teaching. I’ve always been the type of student to take good notes or listen to a lecture and understand everything the first time around, as was the case in elementary school and middle school. But my more rigorous classes proved to be a challenge for me and I did not know the proper way of learning the material on my own. I started by asking more questions in class and then going to my friends for help on subjects I didn’t understand. After many questions and after school tutor