I am Samuel Sesena and my life is not as interesting or eventful as the lives of other students, but I would still like to believe I have depth. From my birth to this exact moment, my life has been steady and no real extraordinary good or bad things have happened to me. Nonetheless, It is important for whoever may read this to have a better understanding of me as a person because I too have experienced life. I have had aspirations, overcome countless obstacles as well as let countless obstacles overcome me, and have had a fair amount of success with my academics which I intend to keep consistent. Seeing that school has remained an integral part of my life, it is only fitting that I discuss is. It is difficult for me recall my early life but …show more content…
In second grade, I took a test to determine whether I qualified for the gifted program at my school which I did not know at the time. Now, some may consider me gifted because of my academic prowess today, but I do not believe that this “prowess” should determine a person’s intellect. Well. I did well on the test and the next year I was enrolled into the gifted program. Once a week, a bus would transport all of the gifted kids at my school to another, where a teacher, supposedly qualified to teach us (I say supposedly because she never truly taught us anything), would instruct us to do varying assignments. I stuck with this program for third and fourth grade and I can say, with confidence, I learned absolutely nothing during my time there. Granted I never attempted to learn new things while over there, but then again, this “gifted” teacher never attempted to teach us anything. Ironically, I did learn something from the gifted program and that was that our school system is extremely flawed. I wasted many days doing nothing while I could have been learning something useful in school. I can recall one day where I had to go to the other school where I again learned nothing and returned to my own school the following day where my class apparently learned long division. I cannot imagine how awful my life would be today if my teacher at my own school did not spend more than one day on the subject. …show more content…
The middle school I attended was what most from my community would call “ghetto”. For a school to be “ghetto”, it must have two main aspects. The first is that the school must be underdeveloped. The second is that the school must be full of delinquents who constantly get into trouble. My school had both of these aspects. I also learned while in middle school that teachers seemed to care less about our well being which is understandable with the number of delinquents they had to deal with. At this point, I had tasted academic success. In fifth grade, my incompetent teacher gave me straight A’s. I simply thought of this to be neat, nothing more. However, in 6th grade, the first year of middle school, I received the principal’s honor roll award for receiving a grade point average of 4.0, or straight A’s in simpler terms. I would have thought nothing of this occasion but what made it truly special was the fact that I was the only person in my grade to receive this award. Because of this, my drive to be the best developed and I knew I would never be happy with a B or being second to someone else, ever(when I received a 3.8 GPA in eighth grade, I was furious). Today, my mind is only at ease when I can see only A’s on my transcript. Another great thing that came from middle school was friends. Many of my friends in middle school are still my friends today. However, my