Life is full of mistakes. As humans, we make them and we struggle to fix them. I had struggled through my junior year. The mistake I made was not focusing on my education. This led to receiving a warning letter from Woodrow Wilson Senior High School that I would not return for my senior year because of a “Failure to maintain a 2.0.”
When I received this letter, I did not know it was a warning. I started to cry and blame myself for leading myself to this path. My mom looked at me and said, “This is only a warning.” I felt relieved and thought about what I had to do to bring my grades up. I was determined not to receive the final letter informing me that I would definitely not return to Wilson.
In order to bring my grades up, I had to attend school more. I was missing school because I lacked motivation and this affected my pr
Coming straight home from school instead of hanging out can improve progress in a class. AP classes require significant time after school. I was taking AP US History, and had I failed it twice. This class involved a lot of reading, and I did not spend as much time reading for this class, as I should have. I dropped out of this class because my GPA was going down; I knew that I could not handle this class.
I am a senior now and I am doing my best not to receive the grades I had for the first semester of my junior year. I have learned from my mistakes and I did struggle to fix them. During the second semester of my junior year I had struggled. My intention was to get a 3.0 or above and I did.
Looking at how I improved my grades, I realize that I am a strong person. I was not use to having a GPA below a 3.0. But I did not act like it
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