Advice for Younger Students. by Katie

Advice for Younger Students. by Katie - April 2016 Scholarship Essay

Throughout my high school career I have learned a lot about myself and what I’ve had to do to get things done. I was smart and always had good grades until I got to high school. Once I got to high school my grades starting showing y lack of effort. It’s not that I wasn’t smart and didn’t know any of the material; it’s just that I was always putting things off until the last minute or even when it was too late. I didn’t know what was happening. Then I figured it out
I struggled with procrastinating every homework assignment I was assigned. Like most high school student I always told myself I would do it later and then later rolled around and it still didn’t get done. My grades suffered because of it but they weren’t horrible. I had always had straight A’s before high school but after that I started slacking a little. I knew I had to fix it.
I started to make homework one of my top priorities. I realized that the work I had to makeup I could have gotten full credit if I had just turned it in on time. I had put the same effort into the makeup work that I did into the work that I had turned in on time. I thought that I couldn’t do some assignments because I wasn’t capable of doing a good job. Once I had done the work and turned it in, I had realized that I could do well.
My advice for every under classmen is to always put effort into everything you do and never believe you can’t do anything. Don’t procrastinate because it will only hurt you down the road.