Academics

 School brings people together or drives them apart, especially in high school.  For the first 18 years of your life at least, school is a very big, mandatory part of your life In life people have academic struggles, accomplishments, and aspirations; I, myself, am not excluded from the many that undergo this. This is all apart of life and school.

In my academic career I have had academic accomplishments. One of those accomplishments is maintaining a 3.2 grade point average. That may not seem like anything big but through out the years I have faced many challenges that prevented me from maintaining the grades I want to have. Another accomplishment I have achieved is finishing homework before it was due. Usually it is hard for me to even finish it let alone early so this is why it is such a great accomplishment for me. It feels good to know that I had not procrastinated to do my work. Last but not least my biggest accomplishment yet is getting accepted in the Lorain County Alliance of Black School Educators (LCABSE). I received this award for getting honor roll my first quarter. I am so proud of this because it was a defining moment for me in my career seeing as my whole entire freshman year I received nothing more than merit role. I am hoping I keep this up In the future. Without a doubt, with accomplishments comes hard times.

Along with academic accomplishments come academic struggles. This, I have a strong knowledge about. An academic challenge that has been very hard to overcome is getting and keeping good grades. This has been a problem since the 6^th grade where I received my first D in Social Studies. This was probably the worst day of my life being as I strive to get good grades. They have not been as bad since that thought and I would not like to go back to that either. A second reason for academic struggles and also for my lack of good grades is my not finishing homework assignments. Last but not least another big thing that was holding me back was the fact that I did not know how to study and did not understand the importance of even attempting. That is when I got into early college and things like tests got harder and studying was mandatory even to get as low of a grade as a C. that was my biggest struggle that I have overcome with the teachers help of drilling that need into our brains. For these reasons I strive to be better.

The accomplishments and struggles brought about the thought of things that I aspire to work on to be better in my career as a student. A big goal of mine that will help in things ranging from non-school related topics to school related topics is to stop procrastinating. I have gotten so bad with it that I do not even know when I am doing it any more. One minute I am doing my work and then the next I am singing or pretending to be in a concert or something along those lines. This is the reason that most of my academic struggles occurred. A second aspiration is to actually learn how to study and only focus on that. Third would be to finish high school with a GPA that is higher than a 3.2. This is probably my biggest aspiration because I want the ability to be accepted into any college without having to worry about grades as an issue. I know that if I achieve this than I would be extremely proud of myself and there could not be anything more that I would want of myself as a short term goal.

With goals and accomplishments come struggles and I have faced just about every one possible in my academic career. I had to learn to be very tenacious and understand of my ways and how to change them to better my opportunities. This was a hard lesson for me to learn and I am still not done learning it. I have been prosperous thus far with hard work and dedication and I believe anyone could be just like me if they stay strong and believe in themselves.