Reflection Paper

I think with being exposed to different subjects you begin to develop what your strengths and limitations are. When I was in middle school, I truly adored math, I would be able to finish my packets before anyone else but as I entered high school math became more of a struggle, I became the one that finishes the packet last. Not because I didn’t understand it but because of the minute details that I seemed to just keep forgetting. Formulas, imaginary numbers, graphing became more difficult that they should have been, leading me to create a negative mind set that maybe I 'm just not and never will be good at math. Nevertheless, what I realized later on is that it’s a simple thing to overcome. It just requires a lot of time, practice, and dedication. Which I have taken into consideration and have pushed to keep doing by asking my teachers for more practices, putting aside 30 minutes to study for math, and taking up my teachers offers of after school help. I just had to learn how to push myself.

Another subject I don’t excel at is Spanish. The reason I have such a hard time is because I seem to generally have a hard time learning a language. For English it took me years to finally get into the swing of things and for Spanish it is the same thing. Learning new words and the grammar

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The overarching problem is the ball and chain relationship that have with my family and I know that the solution will be to move away and start my own life, becoming completely independent, which will happen when I am in college and I am able to just focus on my studies. The only thing that has ever pulled through for me is my education and the individuals involved in my education such as my teachers and friends, and the few good seeds in my dysfunctional