4th+Quarter+Reflective+Essay

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My first year in high school has been unbelievably great. This has been the best year ever. It's really hard to put in words on how important my first year has been. Hopefully it doesn't end as bad as it started. The beginning of my year was as coarse as a sheet of sand paper, but blossomed out into a beautiful flower ready for spring. And you know what, there is nothing in this world that will keep me from floating on the cloud that I am on. I feel so glad to be here and I'm going to keep going until I do everything right. This is the most important year of high school so if you mess up now you mess up later. If I'm given an oppotunity then I'm going to take it and run with it to do what's right for me. My teachers work to hard to put me out in the real world therefore I'm going to pay them back for caring and keeping me on track to go on into the future. Everything my teachers taught me won't ever go to waste. They never gave up on me so I'm not giving up on me nor them because why........ I owe it to them for caring. So my first year in high school, being freshman, is the best thing that's ever happened to me.

When I got upstairs on the freshman floor for the first time, I promised myself I wouldn't be lazy, I would do things right and do them again if they weren't where they needed to be the first time it was done. But in the long run I couldn't do it, when really I could I just didn't set myself the right way to go and do what needed to be done. First quarter I failed science and had a D in english. Seeing those grades turned me right around and set me on the path that I was destined to be on. It made me think of what would happen if I kept doing the things I was doing and not doing my work and getting straight A's like a true student would. Every paper I recieved in each of those classes they were done early and turned in right on time.

Second quarter, I ended up with an A in english and a C in science. C's aren't bad but they could be better because like my mom tells me I'm not a mediocre person, but a C is good enough to beat having an F any day. You tell me which is better a C or an F. But any way, life at school got better for me in the middle of my second quarter. I felt good about myself because I raised my grades up away from a D or F. In all my classes I stayed on my work and checked on my grades, I never gave up I did what I said I was going to do at the beginnig of the year. Although second quarter was too late to me, my grades were still on point, they not once stepped out of line. But now that it's fourth quarter I'm kind of upset because I'm back where I started because I got lazy.

If I could change any thing in my freshman year I would change the fact that I gave up on myself and waited too late to get my things together and get my grades up where they are supposed to be. I regret coming to school playing all first quarter and messing my grades up and also getting lazy after being on break. The kids that'll be up here next year, all I can say is never give up and stay on your grades, do all your work you need your education. This will be your most important year of high school and you can't mess up cuz it'll affect you later in high school. You need to really have care for your education if not you'll really end up in a condition you don't want to be in. Be smart and be unstoppable with doing your work and keeping your grades up.

This quarter I plan on working my hardest like I did in second quarter. I'm back to where I am, I need to get back on track and that's what I plan to do and I'm not letting no one keep me from doing what has to be done. I'm going to study and practice every day, turn in all my work on time, do all my homework. I know my goal will be reached when my grades are A's and B's and nothing lower. Every thing I'll ever do in school will be strictly business, nothing else. It will be no games being played because like they say business before pleasure. And school is all my business.

I will come to every class prepared ready to work. I will always be on my best behavior. My teachers taught me well and they always have cared so I'm going to show them that I am thankful for them being there and never giving up. The grades I have now is absolutely not me I am better than that and I know I am and so do my teachers. So I'm going to show every body that I can reach my goals. All of my goals. The goals I had at the beginning of the year have somewhat changed. I said I would do a lot of things that I haven't done yet so I'm just changing all that I have said I would do and I'm making a new plan.

People always say that if you don't get a good education in life then you will end up in the wrong place. I hate seeing people on the corners selling drugs and doing all of the wrong things all because they didn't get a good education. You shouldn't want to be in the streets selling drugs because it's not really good for you. All that is doing is putting you on the path to jail or even death. That's not going to be me because my education is important and I'm not going to stop doing what's right. All I ever want to do is go to school and get on the right track to get to the right place. My parents tell me everyday "what ever you put your mind to you can do it don't let anyone tell you, you can't do anything because they're wrong." **When they tell me that I feel special** because I know that I can really do any thing if I get my education and get my head on the right track.

**I just wish i could of did much better this year. I'm very intelligent and my teachers know that so next year I will show them what I'm made of. They never gave up on me so I'm not giving up on me nor them because why......... I owe it to them for caring. I will work hard every day and that WON'T EVER CHANGE. My grades will stay on point and my teachers will be proud of me. It's my time to shine.**