What a turnaround

Last year I was doing badly in school. By the end of the school year I was put on academic probation because of my poor attendance and grades. It was very upsetting to me and my parents, my parents paid so much money for those classes and I didn’t even bother to show up or do the homework. I honestly do not know why I was like that - that is very unlike me - it’s hard for me to do well in school. But I try my best and I am hardly ever late or sick, so missing classes is just not like me at all.

This year has been different. I am going to classes I am doing my homework. I am getting up early enough to go to classes. It also has helped me when I don’t have back to back classes, one right after the other. This year I am taking three classes. Well, two, and the third one is if I pass the second one, which I most likely will. I am trying not to repeat last year; I do not want to be kicked out of college. Because If I get kicked out It will be very hard to get back to college when people look at my grades. If I can pass this semester I will be a lot happier, my parents will be as well.

My day begins at nine o’clock in the morning each Tuesday and Thursday. The first class is computer hardware maintenance, or CIT 1111. If I pass 1111 I then get to move up to 1112, for which I am already signed up assuming I pass 1111. When I pass 1112 I can then go take my A+ exam. My next class is English. It’s a basic English class that teaches everything I’ve already learned. But I need to know it because I am not the greatest at even spell checking or at sentence structure. So this English class should help me a lot and hopefully it will make me a better writer.

Last week I had to take my midterm for my computer hardware class. It was an open book and a take home test so it was a little bit easier to take. I knew a lot of the questions off the top of my head and when I didn’t I could go to the book. I was nervous but yet excited at the same time. I thought to myself “What if I bombed it?” “What if I get the lowest grade in the class?” For someone like me I have test taking anxiety; I get stressed out and I think that I am going to do poorly and not well - I sometimes even freeze up on tests and I forget everything. Then after I leave the classroom and turn in the test I remember it all again.

So you are probably wondering how well I did? Well I got an eighty percent out of one hundred of course. I am a little mad at myself because I am capable of getting at least a ninety-five. I only got twenty-two out of one-hundred possible questions wrong. So it’s about a seventy-eight percent. After I went back and looked at what I got wrong I laughed. I am just so proud that I did that well on a test. I hardly ever do that well, considering the fact it was open book. I hardly needed the book though. So today was one of the happiest days of my life.