Hard times by Lilith

Hard times by Lilith - April 2019 Scholarship Essay

This semester was a wake up call for me. For most of my life, I have not had to do much to get good grades and excel in school. I figured it would be the same in college, I was so wrong it hurts.
My second semester senior year of high school, I was your very typical case of “senioritis”. I did the very least I could do to get A’s and B’s in all of my classes. At Centerville, if you have above a 70% at the end of your senior year you do not have to take any exams, so I did just that. I began to get lazy and not care anymore. I was so excited to just graduate…Talk about a mistake. I have been playing “catch up” since last January. I came into this school year, sitting on a high horse. All I could think was, how much harder can high school be than college? Unbeknownst to me, it’s so much harder. I was absolutely drowning in work in the fall. I couldn’t find my groove of work and I was really struggling. I would come home and cry because I didn’t know if I could keep going to college. I was lost and confused and really sad. I was also angry because all of the things that CHS should have done to prepare me for college didn’t happen. The teachers there coddle you and in college that is absolutely not the case.
I didn’t find my groove until this semester. I threw myself into my work studies and decided to be better than the Lilith that went to WSU last semester. I never want to be her again. She was sad and over worked. Now I’m grooving all the way to the end of the year. I’m trying to raise my GPA and take harder classes with my friends. I’ve learned that life doesn’t always come easy, especially when you expect it to. Perseverance and grit are the keys to success. It took me six months to realize that, but the wait was well worth it. I know what I need to do now and I’m working on it to help me with my future endeavors.