In my freshman year i felt like a bus hit me. But for real it was actually life telling me, "Life isn't a joke you can fail and not graduate." That really woke me up and I got scared. I realized as soon as I walked through the doors of school on the first day that my future depends on my work and efforts now. But now I'm ready for it. It took me a long while but I'm ready for whatever comes my way. Not just academically either. I'm ready for whatever comes my way out of school also. Being a freshman gave me confidence that I lost a long time ago. I just felt that I was looking through a screen. Like life itself wasn't real.That's different now as I realize the importance of everything I do, including picking my friends. So now the bus has passed and I'm ready to take on life again how I used to.
At the beginning of the school year I was quiet, low in confidence, scared, and angry with everybody. I don't like annoying people. Well I'm still quiet, got some confidence back, not scared anymore, and grew tolerant to some people. I still don't like annoying people though.Some of the challenges I faced was Geometry, home responsibilities,homework, and getting my supplies together. I overcome these challenges by keeping calm and thought them out through. Eventually I conquered them. Yes it was difficult but I made ends meet. With my household that is hard to do. There is so much noise its hard to find a quite place to do anything. I also have to take care of my siblings so that can be pretty busy. Its just hard but I made it through so far and I'm not about to give up now!
Important academic skills I learned is how to properly study. At first I thought that i just had to look them over but I found out that I also had to redo some things and keep writing them down so I could fully understand what I was doing. At first I wouldn't study at all and it was hard getting stuff done right especially if you got advanced classes. So when I begun to struggle my teachers kept telling me to study so I did start and things became a little more clearer so I continued to study. When I began to study I didn't know really how so that didn't help me any until my geometry teacher explained it more better because he really wanted us to start studying so, I tried it out and it worked for me.
A thing I would change about me freshman year is myself. I know I've been slacking off and that effected my grades alot. I'm pretty sure I would be getting nearly straight A's if I haven't been so lazy with my work. I would be absent some days so I would miss work but instead of getting it only sometimes I would just not get it and that would mess up my grade. I also would change my personality because this is not the true me. Well, kinda but I am more outgoing outside of school. Some advice for the 8th graders is to listen to your teachers because they know more then you so do what they say and you will go far. If they say to study then study. It will help you out a lot. Another thing is to not get in trouble with the teachers or you will be sent out and probably miss some important stuff that you will have to stay back to learn or make up. that wont be as fun as the original activities, so you'll be missing out.
My goals for this quarter is to not slack and finish things. I cannot just decide to not do my work because I dont feel like it! That would be truely lazy of me and I dont want that so I have to force myself to do whats right. Its going to fustrate me of course but I have to do what it takes. I usually do not finish what I start exspecially my stories. I just dont finish them and when I look back at them I know I need to finish them I got a feeling that I need to finish them but then again I dont really want to. So I have to finish them.
Another goal is to not be mean to my siblings. Its hard because for real I have some anger issues that I take out on them someimes and it doenst do me any goog to be mad at them and it doesnt do hem any good niether. It is affecting me acidemically by I get fustrated with them when they try to help and so I believe that to get rid of the fustrating feelings Ill just stop doing my work which isnt a reallyu good idea on my part. I have to pull through by calming myself down and stick with my homework no matter what they do or say to irritate me. Ill try to be nicer but no promoises!
Also I want to stay on the honor role which isnt looking to good right now. I am missing a lot of work and I'm feeling the pressure to get it done on time. I will have to go to help sessions to get things done. I really want to finish this year with good grades and I can do it to if I stop being lazy and do my work like I was told, when I was told. Then I can reach my goals and actually be happy with myself. That is the most important goal of all: be happy with myself. I;m always putting myself down if I dont get things done perfectly. Ineed to do it right the first time so I wont do that anymore.
Overall I learned how to get things done right and how to reach my goals just by writing this paper.I learned about myself and what I need to get done. I have learned many new important things in school like how to write a good essay to get into college and how to get trough college. Also I learned how to look at problems in different ways because of geometry, there are more than one way to figure out a problem than the obvious and it can lead to a new answer. But there is one thing that I REALLY need to master and that is spelling. Overall I believe this year has been a big sucess. I know I went farther than expected of myself this year and I just thought this year was great minus all the fights and delays of work.
4Th Quarter Reflection
In my freshman year i felt like a bus hit me. But for real it was actually life telling me, "Life isn't a joke you can fail and not graduate." That really woke me up and I got scared. I realized as soon as I walked through the doors of school on the first day that my future depends on my work and efforts now. But now I'm ready for it. It took me a long while but I'm ready for whatever comes my way. Not just academically either. I'm ready for whatever comes my way out of school also. Being a freshman gave me confidence that I lost a long time ago. I just felt that I was looking through a screen. Like life itself wasn't real.That's different now as I realize the importance of everything I do, including picking my friends. So now the bus has passed and I'm ready to take on life again how I used to.
At the beginning of the school year I was quiet, low in confidence, scared, and angry with everybody. I don't like annoying people. Well I'm still quiet, got some confidence back, not scared anymore, and grew tolerant to some people. I still don't like annoying people though.Some of the challenges I faced was Geometry, home responsibilities,homework, and getting my supplies together. I overcome these challenges by keeping calm and thought them out through. Eventually I conquered them. Yes it was difficult but I made ends meet. With my household that is hard to do. There is so much noise its hard to find a quite place to do anything. I also have to take care of my siblings so that can be pretty busy. Its just hard but I made it through so far and I'm not about to give up now!
Important academic skills I learned is how to properly study. At first I thought that i just had to look them over but I found out that I also had to redo some things and keep writing them down so I could fully understand what I was doing. At first I wouldn't study at all and it was hard getting stuff done right especially if you got advanced classes. So when I begun to struggle my teachers kept telling me to study so I did start and things became a little more clearer so I continued to study. When I began to study I didn't know really how so that didn't help me any until my geometry teacher explained it more better because he really wanted us to start studying so, I tried it out and it worked for me.
A thing I would change about me freshman year is myself. I know I've been slacking off and that effected my grades alot. I'm pretty sure I would be getting nearly straight A's if I haven't been so lazy with my work. I would be absent some days so I would miss work but instead of getting it only sometimes I would just not get it and that would mess up my grade. I also would change my personality because this is not the true me. Well, kinda but I am more outgoing outside of school. Some advice for the 8th graders is to listen to your teachers because they know more then you so do what they say and you will go far. If they say to study then study. It will help you out a lot. Another thing is to not get in trouble with the teachers or you will be sent out and probably miss some important stuff that you will have to stay back to learn or make up. that wont be as fun as the original activities, so you'll be missing out.
My goals for this quarter is to not slack and finish things. I cannot just decide to not do my work because I dont feel like it! That would be truely lazy of me and I dont want that so I have to force myself to do whats right. Its going to fustrate me of course but I have to do what it takes. I usually do not finish what I start exspecially my stories. I just dont finish them and when I look back at them I know I need to finish them I got a feeling that I need to finish them but then again I dont really want to. So I have to finish them.
Another goal is to not be mean to my siblings. Its hard because for real I have some anger issues that I take out on them someimes and it doenst do me any goog to be mad at them and it doesnt do hem any good niether. It is affecting me acidemically by I get fustrated with them when they try to help and so I believe that to get rid of the fustrating feelings Ill just stop doing my work which isnt a reallyu good idea on my part. I have to pull through by calming myself down and stick with my homework no matter what they do or say to irritate me. Ill try to be nicer but no promoises!
Also I want to stay on the honor role which isnt looking to good right now. I am missing a lot of work and I'm feeling the pressure to get it done on time. I will have to go to help sessions to get things done. I really want to finish this year with good grades and I can do it to if I stop being lazy and do my work like I was told, when I was told. Then I can reach my goals and actually be happy with myself. That is the most important goal of all: be happy with myself. I;m always putting myself down if I dont get things done perfectly. Ineed to do it right the first time so I wont do that anymore.
Overall I learned how to get things done right and how to reach my goals just by writing this paper.I learned about myself and what I need to get done. I have learned many new important things in school like how to write a good essay to get into college and how to get trough college. Also I learned how to look at problems in different ways because of geometry, there are more than one way to figure out a problem than the obvious and it can lead to a new answer. But there is one thing that I REALLY need to master and that is spelling. Overall I believe this year has been a big sucess. I know I went farther than expected of myself this year and I just thought this year was great minus all the fights and delays of work.