One do-over is a really hard choice. There are so many wrong choices I made in life, but one really major point in my life that I would change does come to mind. I would honestly love to go back to my freshman year of my high school career. I want to do-over that year. I made so many bad relationship choices. I made too many terrible academic decisions. All of these choices lead to regrettable personal decisions. So to begin with, my academic decisions, I was a considerably lazy student to begin with. I made As and Bs with no effort. I thought that was just good enough. I was wrong, and I wasn’t mature yet. I wasn’t looking at the big picture. I was this smart kid who knew it all and breezed his way through. I did that for a little while, but it had negative consequences. I didn’t realize how important my education was until midway through my sophomore semester. I didn’t realize how much it would affect my later education like my GPA. I just wish that I could have been a more serious student in the beginning. I wish it wouldn’t have taken me almost two years to become the student I am today. It took a lot of extra work and stress that I could have avoided. …show more content…
I believe that the way you act and perform in life can be reflective of the people you sometimes associate yourself with. This part of my do-over is very simple. I chose people that weren't true friends and I got attached to people that weren't going to stay around. I wish I could go back to this part because it changed my personality some. It turned me bitter and changed my level of optimism and happiness. Which leads us to the last part of my freshman year that I would love to change. It had a negative effect on my personal relationships with my
...hool and work and life in general. I did not strive to do my best in high school and especially my dual enrollment classes. I was not ever thinking about my future and started not coming to classes. Once I accepted God in my life Junior Summer, all that changed. I realized I was on a negative path and God helped me turn my life around. Senior year is going wonderful so far, my grades are the best they have ever been and I am busy as ever with work, school, church, and volunteer work. I love it this way, I believe staying busy requires me to stay on task and get a lot done, that is the lifestyle I have to take to college. Although that bad patch in high school lowered my grades and performance, making it more difficult to get into college, I am thankful it happened so I could learn from it before heading off to a new chapter in my life, hopefully at Auburn University!
Regretfully, when I entered high school I did not realize how hard I had to work to get what I wanted. I went to my classes, did my work, but never really pushed myself to my full abilities. I thought that as long as I graduated with decent grades I would be able to get into college and really focus then. But as high school quickly came to an end I realized that I was not as well prepared for college, as I would have liked.
I felt as though I was watching a train barrelling towards me, an inevitable bullet that had come tumbling out of the opposing pitcher’s arm. But instead I stood immobilized, watching my team's only chance of winning whiz by me. Strike three. I heard my team from behind me shouting “SWING!” with my mind screaming the same. But my bat remained unmoving, the pop of the catcher's glove like the nail into the coffin that was our defeat. All I had to do to keep our hopes of winning hope alive was swing, and yet I couldn't. I stayed on the field afterwards, tossing the ball up in the air and swinging away, landing it on the thick maple barrel of the bat.
As discussed in class, discourse is our communication. Furthermore, author James Paul Gee of “What is Literacy” defines discourse as an “identity kit” (Gee, “What is Literacy?”). Gee includes discourse as a combination of one’s thinking, acting, and language that is associated to a group of others. There are different kinds of discourses; two discourses that will be discussed in this paper are primary and secondary. Primary discourse is the “oral mode developed in the primary process of enculturation” (Gee, “What is Literacy?”). The primary discourse in this paper is the first-person experience I had in high school. Secondary discourse is “developed in association with and by having access to and practice with these secondary institutions” (Gee, “What is Literacy?”). School, work, and church are examples of secondary institutions. The secondary discourse in the paper is attending the University of Arkansas and writing this paper. According to Gee, “secondary discourse can serve as a meta-discourse to critique the primary discourse…” (“What is Literacy?”). Throughout this process I wanted to know if high school is destined. Was my high school experience awful or is there a sociological reasoning behind the events? With that, I have researched the social construct and applied it to my previous experiences enabling me to truly discover if high school is destined.
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.
It wasn’t until my senior year of high school when I realized the true importance of going to college really was. The only reason I excelled in my studies was because I was always motivated too, so when it came down to my decision to continue school I didn’t know what to do. I decided that even with a degree in today’s economy, it won’t have much of an impact. But I couldn’t have been more wrong than ever. I eventually came to my own senses and decided for myself that all my years of being in school, planning for my future, long hours of hard work and perseverance shouldn’t go to waste.
Gifts, people, pets, memories and actions are some of the countless things people remember in their high and low points in life. From time to time, I dwell on the things that impacted my life, and the most meaningful one of which was attaining my high school diploma. To begin with, I was not fond of school when I reached high school. Then, I made a decision to join the Armed Forces and did not know I needed a high school diploma to join. Eventually, I ended up with a high school diploma and an honorable discharge from the Marine Corps, that I now find extremely helpful, as I am in college. Given these points, I can say that I am extremely proud of myself and I am looking forward to accomplish much more in the near future.
ill-prepared for the rigors of a college curriculum, and I lacked the discipline required to do well.
...ademic hardships. Even though I lost so much during junior year, I was unaware of the fact that secretly I was actually gaining a great deal of life experiences and real-life lessons for the future. Quite honestly I feel lucky. I feel lucky that I matured early in life; with this new maturity I feel I can accomplish anything. I feel I can make a positive difference in this world. I feel like this experience will be the primary step in my success, in terms of my career, and in the launch of my Children in Need campaigns in third world countries. I feel like the young superman who just learned how to fly, slightly aware of his magnificent impact towards the world. In short, I feel junior year provided foundation for the more mature and adult chapters of my life, and without the numerous obstacles of junior year, I would never gained the key to a successful future.
I was not ready, focused, or dedicated and as a result it reflected in my poor grades. This left me feeling like a failure, and my confidence was low in my abilities. It would take years before I would I feel confident enough in my abilities to return to college. As years passed I became focused, goal oriented, confident, and realized the path I wanted to pursue. It was a constant gnawing feeling to return to college. Once I felt confident in my abilities to succeed in college, I enrolled. As a result my grades improved to a 3.27 GPA. My academic strengths are my ability to focus, endure, prioritize and study. My deficiencies would be time management. I have set aside a time frame for study time this is what helped me to succeed in my undergrad program.
Since day one of high school I knew what I wanted for myself. I would always turn in my assignments in time. I would be on time to every class, I knew what classes I need to focus on and I knew if I would take AP classes it would help my gpa and my ranking. I was not the type of person who needed someone to be tellin...
I concluded my 8th grade year with 9 a's and 5 b's, contrarily my 9th grade report card included 5 f's and 3 d's. "Your mistakes do not define who you are, you are your possibilities." - Oprah Winfrey. This quote reflects my high school journey because though I've made innumerable mistakes throughout high school thus far, and continue to make mistakes by not prioritizing my education, I refuse to give up and I will not let my mistakes make me.
Since the third grade, I had earned straight A’s up until my freshman year of high school. School was relatively easy for me. I was striving way above my peers in terms of reading and math. My teachers all told me that I would be very successful later in life. I believed them but, my belief
look back in life, there are many things that I would change, but there is one decision that
...the past, but live each day to its fullest potential, with no regrets. I also decided to live by God’s will and serve Him to the best of my ability. I started doing things for myself. I no longer went to church to please other but to please myself and to please God. Its funny how one tragic moment in your life can ripple out and affect so many other aspects of your life and sometimes even aspects of others lives.