High school is said to be a time for a teen to enter the early stages of adulthood. From my own personal experiences, I have grown as a person. Since my freshman year I have learned how to be more organized, modest, and a better friend. If it was not for teachers, friends, and my own problems I would never had learned these lessons. High school presents a challenge for a person to transform from adolescence to adulthood.
Before I entered into high school, I was a extremely unorganized person. It was a new experience and I did not know what to expect. The first semester of freshman year was the hardest year to deal with organization. The teacher’s demands for work were astounding. I would go home after school and toss my English folder on my bedroom floor letting my papers fall out. Later on during the year when I needed a certain paper it would be missing because of my careless action. There were many times that a teacher would assign a project and I would not write down the due date or what I needed to do. Then as the date neared, I had nothing done and I was stuck with one of those
Looking back on every immature thing I have done in my 2 years in High school I realize how I have changed as a person. High School has helped me transform from adolescence to adulthood.
If you ask any of my friends when I first entered high school they would tell you I was not a very modest person. I guess you can say that I was a little conceited and stuck-up. I was just out of eighth grade and was use to being the top of the class. I thought that when I was in high school I was going to be popular and everyone was going to want to hang around with me. I started to hang around some of my brother’s old friends and I soon became an outsider. Every group I would try to be apart of would just ignore me because of my arrogant attitude. One day in November, right before Thanksgiving, I realized what I had been doing. I started talking to a girl I had a crush on and she shut me down. When I asked her why, she told me that I was conceited and I had no friends because I was to arrogant and stuck-up. From that day, I changed in spite of what she said to prove her wrong. I started hanging