In my junior year I am focused on my work so I can get into a good college. Colleges look at your overall grades, including freshman and sophomore year, but they do look at your junior year.
Right now junior year has been successful, with not too many things to worry about. But that’s because I’ve made it that way. I’ve learned to stay on top of my work, ask for help when I don’t know what I am doing, not just sit there and not know what to do.
I wasn’t always like this, though. At first, when I was a freshman in high school, I was an honor roll student. I was paying attention in all my classes coming early to school and doing all my work, maintaining a 90+ average.
But in my sophomore year, I transferred school, and everything went down the drain. Transferring to a new school comes with a lot of changes and challenges. There are people you don’t know and teachers you don’t know.
When I came to this school, I was quiet and didn’t know anybody. I was on my phone all the time and not doing any work. That is why my grades were so low.
Now as a junior I think it’s important to have good grades, because it can affect your GPA and that can ruin your opportunities for college. I changed because I had to think of my future and what I wanna be. With bad grades that means bad colleges, not really bad colleges but colleges you don’t wanna be in.
If I could talk to my 10th grade self, I would tell them to do these things:
- Keep up on the work – this avoids getting work done late and missing the due date and getting points taken off the assignment
- Don’t get distracted – getting distracted leads to different things like not focusing on your work and getting things wrong.
- Ask for help – Asking for help can lead you to greater things in life. When you ask for help from a teacher they can help you with stuff you don’t know how to do.
