Last year I moved schools. It was my junior year in high school and I had a line of difficult classes ahead of me. I didn\u2019t know a single person in the entire school, so it seemed like I was setting myself up for a disaster. My most difficult classes I had to take that year were AP chemistry and honors pre calculus.<\/p>\n
I had always been a good student. I studied hard and I earned good grades for my hard work. But this year was different. Every day I would walk into class extremely nervous. I thought I knew what I was doing but once I was left to do problems on my own I struggled. Everything seemed to click when the teacher was talking. It all made perfect sense. But when it came to the homework and then the quizzes and tests I had no idea what to do and the grades reflected that.<\/p>\n
I started to struggle. I\u2019ve never struggled this much in school before. Why was I doing so bad? I was studying every night and taking good notes, but it seemed it wasn\u2019t helping at all. I would ask around if anyone could help me in the class but no one else seemed to know that much either. But they were all getting a lot higher grades than me. So what was I doing wrong?<\/p>\n
Eventually I went to my teachers for help. I went in early every morning and stayed late every day. They worked one on one with me on each problem and explained to me what I was supposed to do. Slowly but surly my grades started to improve. Not only did I start to feel more confident in myself but I found new ways to study and to help myself learn things. Asking for help was a very difficult decision for me, I was never one to ask for help when I needed it because I thought it would make me look unintelligent. But in reality it makes me smart. Smart enough to know when I need help and know exactly where I can find it.<\/p>\n
Last year I moved schools. It was my junior year in high school and I had a line of difficult classes ahead of me. I didn\u2019t know a single person in the entire school, so it seemed like I was setting myself up for a disaster. My most difficult classes I had to take that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4118,4111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-october-2017","category-scholarship-essay-submissions"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}