In the beginning of my high school career, I failed to listen to the wisdom of my teachers and parents. I was told that this is where colleges begin to look at your grades, and this is when it mattered. So, when I was a freshman, I was too immature and arrogant to take heed in what my elders were saying. However, I have always pushed myself to be in the upper tier of classes. My immaturity as a freshman, and for first semester of my sophomore year, is reflected in my grades. I received a D in Integrated Chemistry and Physics, or ICP. This was due to the immaturity that led me away from doing assignments, and it rather led me to being the class clown. Similar mistakes in middle school, are what put me in a class that was easy for me. So I got bored and did not do the smart thing, which would have been to breeze through the class. I did not do anything and I even got moved to the front of the room, not just to the front of the room but right next to the teachers desk. The combination of my parent’s …show more content…
I come from a privileged background, and because of that I had Assumed that everything would be handed to me. I did not try in school, because I felt like I did not have to in order to go to the school that I desired. In my junior year I realized that I was sadly mistaken. While I began to understand it towards the end of my sophomore year, It had not hit home until my junior year. However, old habits die hard. I say this because that beast of immaturity and arrogance reared its head again in pre calculus and trigonometry my junior year. I received a C both semesters because I was too arrogant and too stubborn to work the problems the way that the teacher told me. I was not showing enough steps, and I lost points here and there on every test and homework. But did I stop? No. I just kept on doing it my because I thought the other way was stupid. I look back and realize that I was really the stupid one in that