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high school? I just wanted to graduate
college? I just wanted to graduate

Rank 253 out of the 350 or so seniors.My gpa was a 1.7. I went to night school and regular classes my jr and senior year of high schoolers. My first year of hs I missed like 70 days total my sophomore year I missed near 120 days. My jr year I took all my classes I got an F in at night school. I took summer school sophomore and jr year. I was scared of being bullied and it was hard eating alone during lunch for the first two years. After those two years I stopped caring about people if I got pushed in the hall way you know damn sure ima step on your new jays and push you back. Not to mention girls and boys started cheating off me my last two years. I was getting honor most of the grading periods. it was hard. I took classes after my senior year and graduated 3 months after my graduating class. My ending gpa was a 2.2. I went to tutoring. Walked home 5 miles. If I missed the bus I would walk to school and sleep in the library until the Liberian would wake me up. I skipped lunch sometimes to ask me teacher if they could help me make up work and how I could get rid of my Fs. Some teacher shared their lunch with me. I was never smart. It becomes easier once you accept that it's going to be hard.

[quote=omegathorion]Grades didn't particularly matter to me. I was more interested in the actual things I was learning. If I was writing an essay about something, I would rather write it about a topic that I'm more personally interested in, even if it's not entirely relevant to the course. So there would be plenty of times that I got low grades in classes that I really liked.[/quote]

Honestly, not very much people have that kind of attitude. I really respect you man. Most people just take the course and get through it with the sole purpose of earning the good grades, although not entirely a bad thing. Admittedly, I am one of those who tries hard only for the sake of grades. This doesn't apply to history or math though cause I genuinely like those subjects. Wondering if chem would be interesting.....

I'm that girl whose in a ton of clubs but no sports. I'm also not the smartest Asian but I am in the top 20 of my class. I'm a lot more open than I was back in elementary and middle school. In elementary, I wanted to be like everyone else and did things to fit in. Same thing in the beginning of middle school but in 8th grade, I began to act more like myself. And now in high school, I'm loud, peppy, and probably annoying but who cares? I know everyone but I have my little group of friends that I sit with and talk to all the time. Grades definitely do matter to me, but I procrastinate so much. In middle school, I maintained a solid 4.0 GPA but in high school, I have a 3.8. Spanish ruined it for me I got a B- and wow, it was so bad. I did get an A in AP World History though.

Elementary school: everything was easy as hell for me, but I did all my work, and had fun with friends
Middle school: I mostly remember the friends part, but stuff was still easy for me. I got a little lazy when I could get away with it
Freshman year: I really don't remember, except I skipped a lot of math problems because I hated graphing and trigonometry crap
Sophomore year: slacked in chemistry and math cause I kinda hated both
Junior year: Anatomy was my first D cause I barely did anything outside of class and I didn't study. I got lots of C's in other classes too, but I guess they were hard?
Senior year: Pretty lazy but I got away with it in most classes. I only had 5 classes, no science, so only second semester of AP stats was hard.

I think I'm pretty intelligent but I get pretty unmotivated and lazy sometimes. I got a 32 on the ACT and everyone is like "WHAT THE HELL?" when I tell them that.

[quote=natalie]for the first few years of high school i went to the mall almost every day during classes. since i never showed up i fell behind in everything except for english (only class i went to) which is ironic cause i absolutely hate english now. i didn't think about the consequences cause cutting classes was like an addiction. once you convince yourself that it's okay not to go once or twice you're gonna start thinking that the third, fourth, fifth time won't do that much harm either. you eventually fall into this trap and start avoiding going to school altogether, lose the trust of your teachers, lose friends, and can't even think about going back cause of the humiliation that'll come along with it until a new school year starts, then the cycle just repeats itself. i never failed or had to repeat a grade but i didn't do well either and i was approaching the point where the grades on my transcript would matter. there was a girl that i used to be friends with who decided to rat me out to the administration and i was finally caught. whether she did it out of hatred for me or the good in her heart i'm grateful for her cause she's part of why i knew i had to change my habits. in my second to last year of high school i struggled to get my ass there every day and my grades were still horrid but i knew that i just had to keep it up and study harder. by my senior year i was playing sports, getting involved, and spending more time studying than sleeping. even though it's a huge improvement i wasn't sure if it was enough. to everyone's surprise it paid off cause i went from having missed roughly 250 classes over the course of 3 years to receiving a letter of acceptance from the university that my parents wanted me to attend

i made a mistake by not taking school seriously and maintaining good work ethics and habits since the beginning which made it really difficult for me to get my life back on track. i was really only able to do it cause my selfishness and inconsideration of my parents' feelings hurt the people close to me. you always hear that school doesn't matter as much as you think but it's never a bad idea to try and see where it takes you[/quote]

Very inspiring, indeed. What I tell other people is yes, grades might not matter that much, and even what universities you get into don't dictate your success in life, but school is like a phase in life that you cannot go back to, so why not give it your best? At least you got right back on track in time and got where you wanted to!

Completely isolated, ignored most of the other students at my high school, but felt it easier to socialize at the community college I was attending via dual enrollment. Many told me I could've been valedictorian, but I never found it to be all that important since getting into a good university was pretty much guaranteed with me having an Associate's degree out of high school. So, I pretty much put minimal effort into high school (3.6-3.8 GPA) and maximum effort towards college (constant 3.9-4.0 overall GPA with steady 4.0 major GPA).

High school students (and most college students) just were not, and still are not, people I comfortably interact with in a casual scenario.

slacker. didn't really try in HS. i had a lot of issues, emotionally, physically, mentally.
i try harder in college but it's been tough, especially when you don't have a good foundation like other people in college (all AP classes, go to a rigorous/non-ghetto school/prestigous hs, parental involvement, etc factors that contribute to overall success).

for the first few years of high school i went to the mall almost every day during classes. since i never showed up i fell behind in everything except for english (only class i went to) which is ironic cause i absolutely hate english now. i didn't think about the consequences cause cutting classes was like an addiction. once you convince yourself that it's okay not to go once or twice you're gonna start thinking that the third, fourth, fifth time won't do that much harm either. you eventually fall into this trap and start avoiding going to school altogether, lose the trust of your teachers, lose friends, and can't even think about going back cause of the humiliation that'll come along with it until a new school year starts, then the cycle just repeats itself. i never failed or had to repeat a grade but i didn't do well either and i was approaching the point where the grades on my transcript would matter. there was a girl that i used to be friends with who decided to rat me out to the administration and i was finally caught. whether she did it out of hatred for me or the good in her heart i'm grateful for her cause she's part of why i knew i had to change my habits. in my second to last year of high school i struggled to get my ass there every day and my grades were still horrid but i knew that i just had to keep it up and study harder. by my senior year i was playing sports, getting involved, and spending more time studying than sleeping. even though it's a huge improvement i wasn't sure if it was enough. to everyone's surprise it paid off cause i went from having missed roughly 250 classes over the course of 3 years to receiving a letter of acceptance from the university that my parents wanted me to attend

i made a mistake by not taking school seriously and maintaining good work ethics and habits since the beginning which made it really difficult for me to get my life back on track. i was really only able to do it cause my selfishness and inconsideration of my parents' feelings hurt the people close to me. you always hear that school doesn't matter as much as you think but it's never a bad idea to try and see where it takes you

[quote=09080706l]I was a student body leader for the visual/performing arts department. Wasn't clever -- my grades were average and I got really lazy near senior year. I'm just consistently dedicated to the fine arts community in my school.[/quote]

The fact that you are dedicated to a particular thing in hs instead of just grades is plain awesome! At least, you made the best of your 4 years and got your best memories.

I was a student body leader for the visual/performing arts department. Wasn't clever -- my grades were average and I got really lazy near senior year. I'm just consistently dedicated to the fine arts community in my school.

I usually get high grades and I am usually at the top of the class, but I don't really think that has to do with my intelligence. It has to do more with my work ethic so I don't really like it when people label me as "smart".

Grades didn't particularly matter to me. I was more interested in the actual things I was learning. If I was writing an essay about something, I would rather write it about a topic that I'm more personally interested in, even if it's not entirely relevant to the course. So there would be plenty of times that I got low grades in classes that I really liked.

I think I was more on the hardworking side rather than being intelligent. I took lots of time on my homework. I always told myself that if I couldn't do this work than how could I possible accomplish all the more difficult task in the future. Though I didn't pay much attention to my grades, I always just do all my work.

I also, didn't have much after clubs or anything outside of classes. Wished that I did though , since it is a great way to practice my social skills.

I usually tried hard in my classes but eventually started slacking near the end. I never had much motivation to begin with but I still pulled through finishing all of my work on time and getting good grades, usually becoming one of the tops in some of my classes, though, I never did well when it came to class discussions and actually getting 'engaged' in it; I was more of a quiet person who solely focused on either sleeping in class or just quietly working through the assignments given. I was relieved after I finished school a semester earlier than everyone else, it was lonely but at least I didn't have to worry about school anymore.

I was an intelligent lazy guy when i was in school, I never studied or did homework, just showed up to school, paid attention and always got 80s-100s on tests

It worked for me up until I was a senior when it screwed over my grades and I ended up with bad mental issues; which im glad to be through snd managing almost completely normal

I didn't have any sort of motivation in school, so I was quite surprised at how I could even do well at some courses. I guess I still tried to do well, for the sake of doing well.

[quote=vietua]I really want to be valedictorian[/quote]

Me too. Working towards that goal too.

I really want to be valedictorian

I've always been a motivated student.

grades only dun did it wit da kobe beef teachers mmm y i pass dem neil degrazz ting

insecure
antisocial af
dumb af
didnt care about school
never went to school
dropped out

I was smart but had no motivation for work outside of school.