How do youfeel towards your academics this year? How are they different from previous years? Explain.

Well so far Im not quite satisfied with the grades that I've been getting this year. I've had more bad grades than I did my good ones. It makes me dissaappionted in myself that I wasn't really able to give it my best. But I think that over all, my best year of having the best grades would have to be my Freshmen year. Well I started nicely being class president and all I was very active with school activities and my academics as well. Sophmore year was okay. Kept it up pretty good in the beginning until I joined the cheerleading squad. I started going to parties and hung with different mixtures of kids who drank, smoke and did things that I normally wouldn't have done. I suppose that under all the peer pressure that the high school life has in store for a regular teenager, I became vulnerable to these negative actions. At first, I really knew how wrong it was but then come to think of it...the real reason why I did it was because everybody else was doing it too. Then came junior year...really had no goals or clubs that I wanted to get involed with. I was so into my partying mode that I never really thought of it to be serious with school that year. That's because I kept telling myself that I would be very serious with senior year by the time it arrives. Now that it's senior year, I look back on everything that I did and the person that I projected myself to be, it makes me feel stupid that I didn't take advantage of all the possible opportunities that I missed my past years. However, I am one to say that I definitely have learned from my mistakes. These are the mistakes that have made me become more mature and think like an adult. But for whatever reason my grades don't turn out to be so perfect this year, I think I would have to blame it on work. I've gotten better at my job than actaully making it a priority to get all my school assignments done and turned in on time. I never thought that it would be this hard to juggle work and school around at the same time. It makes me tired when I'm in school and causes me to slack off with my work. I am slowly trying to recover from its damages. But I suppose that my only solution is to work out my schedule the best way I possibly can.