First High School Summer in School?!!! by Kevin

First High School Summer in School?!!! by Kevin - June 2016 Scholarship Essay

My freshman year in high school was a wild one since it was the first time that I had gone to a school so big that I got lost the first day of school. Now, at the time, I goofed off with my studies because I did not know the importance of getting and keeping a good G.P.A, as it had been used to get scholarships and colleges. I did pretty good in every other class but the class that giving me the most trouble was Algebra one. The teacher was a really nice guy but for some reason, I kept getting really bad grades and I’m talking on everything. I’m being a bit dramatic but I got bad grades on the things that counted: tests. I didn’t understand why: I was doing good on my assignments, my homework had some mistakes but I would always go back and fix them or I would review with the teacher. With me not knowing why I was bombing tests and my grade getting lower and lower, the end of year was coming up way quicker than excepted.
I just did really good on an assignment and my teacher tells me that the grade that I had right now, which was a D by the way, had gone up to a C. That made me so happy for two reasons: one, I would pass with a C and two, my mom would get me something really cool. I don’t remember what it was but I know that I wanted it really bad. School ends and I have one of the best and worst first year of high school but then my report card comes out. The first thing that I see is the words “held back” in red lettering. I look and see that I have a credit for every class except math. I didn’t have a C, I had a D and I had to go to summer school to make up the credit.
This was pretty devastating as I wanted to the fabled summer things that high school kids did: hang out with friends and do crazy stuff but I was stuck in a computer lab for a month, doing math. I overcame this, I did not want to be held back and be a twenty-year-old high school graduate. I worked hard on that computer every single day and I met a few friends along the way. On June 29, 2012 I got a certificate of completion, showing that my D grade had gone up to a B. I got the credit and I had a month to just chill with my friends.
What I learned from this is failure will always happen, it is a stepping stone to get closer to success. Even if in the long-run, it looks difficult or hard, that is no reason to give up. If I can make a summer that was ruined by my own personal mistakes a lot better than it would have been if the mistakes never happened, then I can persevere through any and everything. This is something very tiny academic obstacle but it was one that made me face the music and stand against my academic failure then take it down as hard as I could. I know most people will talk things that are way more difficult than my obstacle but it is the most personal one that I could have thought of.