Proudest Moment by Gisselle

Proudest Moment by Gisselle - December 2016 Scholarship Essay

High school students tend to fall into a huge amount of pressure when it comes to keeping their grades up as well as having the pressure of trying to fit in. Fitting in during the high school years is one reason why high school teens tend to fall under pressure. Fitting in isn’t the only problem, keeping grades up is also a big issue to some high school student, including myself.
I was one of those students who would never take anything seriously when it came to school work. My freshmen year of high school, I thought I was one of the cool kids who didn’t have to do homework. I would slack off during class and I would not take class seriously. The reason I did this was because my so called friends would encourage me to ditch class and to do better things. Freshmen year went by so fast that I didn’t realize what my friends were doing to me. When sophomore year came around, my bad habits of freshmen year followed me. I continued to slack off in class and not pay attention. Not only would I slack off, but I would always be late to class on purpose to get the teacher mad. When it came to homework, I would pretend like I never had any and would do better things like sleep, or watch television.
My biggest accomplishment happened my junior year of high school. Junior year I realized that the friends I had were not good people. I decided to unfriend them as soon as possible, and I fortunately found better friends. My new friends would push me to do my best in school and to keep my grades, up. I went from barely having a 2.0 GPA freshmen and sophomore year, to having a 3.1 GPA my junior year. To me, this was my most proudest accomplishment in high school. I came to realization that if I didn’t step my game up, I wasn’t going to be the person I wanted to be. It was my proudest accomplishment because even when people would tell me that i couldn’t do it, I managed to push through their negative comments. Not only did this affect me back then, but it will affect me in the future.