Overcoming Failure

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Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what lessons did you learn?

When I was in ninth grade I was always playing around I didn’t do any work, I thought it was a joke and ninth grade was hard. It sucked cause I didn’t take it seriously, my grades started slipping. I was failing my classes and on top of that I was playing basketball so it sucked even more I got the opportunity to go to states with varsity but then my report card came in and it was so bad I had a gpa of 1.4. I felt so dumb for messing up because I couldn’t go up to states. It affected me because I got the opportunity up to states and I messed up because I wasn’t taking school seriously. I realized that my grades were so bad I …show more content…

If you want to go to college you need good grades because that’s what they need to know and that’s what they look at to see what kind of student you. I think that colleges use your grades to tell if you are a student that improves when something goes wrong like when your grades go down. They can tell if you are one to push hard when grades slip or if you are one to keep your grades up the whole way. I think that they will look if you play sports and keep your grades up at the same time, that’s what I have to do it’s hard to do when you get home late from practice or even a game but if you wanna play then you gotta do what you gotta do. If you put effort into doing your homework after a game or practice you will be fine. I just get home from practice and just do what I gotta do and I do my homework if it’s due the next day. If it’s game day and it’s an away game we do our homework on the bus or before we get on the bus so on the way there we can sleep on the bus. Sometimes I have a lot of homework on game days but sometimes I have none which is good, I do it either way. I do sports and get my homework done at the same time because I want to play my sports but I also want to pass and get good grades. I am really good at multitasking because I need to multitask to play my sports and do my homework. I get good grades now because I want to play my sports and I want to go to

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