Overcoming Failure Research Paper

There are failures that happen everyday, every minute and every second of the day. My biggest failure to this day is that of flunking out of Running Start.

There are no words for how disappointed in myself I was for letting my family and friend problems to get in the way of my academic school life. The problem started from the beginning of college last year. I was so excited to be away from the high school where I was teased or looked down on by a selective few. With the freedom I possessed I forgot all about grades and ideals of my parents. I was free to do what I wanted, and what I wanted was to rebel. I wanted to be a bad daughter and a bad student. I wanted my parents to stop putting pressure on me to get perfect grades and to get into the perfect school. In school I refused to pay attention in class, I would go and sit and wait for my next class. I did the homework for about the first couple of weeks into the quarter but as soon as I got a bad grade on an assignment or the teacher had a "talk" with me at the end of class I would stop going and stop doing the assignments. I would ditch class with my friends, I would do anything I could to get a even worse grade in a class. This lead to me failing my first quarter then being withdrawn from the program my second quarter.

My parents fought with my older sister about her life choices and how I was such a better daughter than them, that of course was before they received my grades from running start. My sister of course then took it out on me in some ways. She would insult me or I would fight with her over the silliest things such as her bad choice in friends or how she didn't want to help out the family. This caused her not to talk to as much and with my oldest sister and my younger sister siding with her it made me want to prove my parents wrong so that they would stop saying those things to my older