6A: The Struggle of Senior Year

Everyone faces challenges. Whether it's a hard class, work problems, or family problems, everyone has their own challenges they need to overcome. A significant challenge I've faced in my life was my senior year of high school. The hype of being a senior, top of the school, bigger and better than everyone else had definitely gotten to me. I was so excited for all of the events that go on senior year, and my schoolwork just didn't seem all that interesting to me. A couple months into school, all I wanted was to graduate and get out of high school. 

I was taking all easy classes because I had gotten most of my credits already, so some of my electives were just random ones that I'd picked out and thought were "easy" for my senior year. For example, I had a Web Design class that was so boring to me and I was uninterested in everything we were doing. I didn't have the motivation to finish my projects, or even pay attention in class. But I knew that to get to the end of the year to graduate I had to work through all my classes and get through them. The only class that I actually needed to pass to graduate that year was my math class, and that was even hard for me because math is my worst subject.

My process of working through my challenge was working through it day by day. I tried my best in the boring classes that I had no interest in, handing in everything by the day it was due even though I wasn't sure if I had some of it right or wrong. I made sure I wouldn't hand something in if it wasn't finished. 

The strategies that I found most helpful were finishing all my homework in my study halls so I don't even have to worry about it when I get home. I also found that knowing when I was all done with my work, it would be one step closer to graduation. What I learned from this experience is that you can't move onto something else unless you finish another thing. I obviously wouldn't have graduated high school unless I passed all my classes, which I had to get through step by step. If you're faced with a challenge, you need to have persistence to get through it and get to your goal. Looking back, this challenge was one that often a lot of students face as seniors in high school, and I definitely wasn't alone. But it took me a lot to get through it, and now I know that I have the motivation to get through challenges during my life.

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