When you enter high school, everything changes. You test what you can do in one short year. How many activities you can fit into a day but also having time for homework, sleep and trying to have a life.
When I came to Hoover as a freshman, it was a big change. I was scared of getting lost, that I wouldn’t have a date to homecoming and that I wouldn’t be able to open my locker.
I was a horrible student in middle school; I didn’t do homework and I never studied or paid attention in class. I remember teachers saying that high school is like a “blank slate.” I never thought what I did in eighth grade mattered.
But when I came to high school, I knew things had to change. I’ve only missed one homework assignment so far this year and I study. If I don’t understand something in class, I ask the teacher instead of “winging it.”
If you don’t ask questions or pay attention you’ll never understand anything in life. You’ll just go on “winging it” and it won’t turn out for the best. People say, “I can’t do it.” I believe everyone can. Push yourself to see what you can do. You have to make a plan and try to achieve it.
The only thing that hasn’t changed so far is my locker. I’m too busy to clean it. So why bother with it? It’s not like I have my mom here yelling at me about it.