4th+Quarter+Reflection

My freshmen year has made me feel like I am two different people. I am Robert, having some personal challenges at home, and then I am Robert, getting through high school easily.

This year was the year I really started thinking about my grade point average. I want to be valedictorian, and I am not going to be that if people keep getting high GPA's. This encouraged me to try harder to get straight A's, and maintain them. There is one class that is preventing me from doing this, Physical Science. Everytime midterm comes around, I have an A. Afterwards, on the report card, I get a B. I am either slacking, which I know I'm not, or somebody isn't grading correctly.

In other classes I am getting A's. I learned that I have to provide a different strategy to get an A with different teachers, certain subjects, and other standards. I know for my life, to treat different things in other manners to get what I want. Ninth grade is one of the most easiest grades because there is no major test to pass and you get less homework. I would tell this to eighth grades so that they would be happy to arrive to their freshmen year.

If I were to change anything about my frshmen year, it would be to have a different schedule. This year I had to go to the 3rd floor for Geometry, to the first floor for lunch, to the third floor for Spanish, and to the first floor for Gym or Art. This schedule is chaotic. I have to figure out when, and when not to go to my locker, which 50% of the time it is super crowded with more than one person at a locker. I would also change the fact that I had a bottom locker. It is uncomfortable in so many ways.

Speaking of change, a goal for me to change myself is to get all A's. I am extremely confident that I can achieve this goal if my teacher doesn't have grading problems. Fourth quarter is harder than third quarter because there's an exam that you have to pass, to pass the class. I have to make sure I get an A or B to maintain my goal.

I write stories. Most aren't that good, I guess because when I look at the notebook and I don't want to write it. I really want to finish them because I always think about another story to write during another story, which makes me quit. So my goal is to finish unfinished stories.

I would like to get a job this summer. It will be hard because I am not sixteen years old yet. I wanted to work at King's Island because I love it and it accepts fifteen year olds. But I'm not working there thts year. I'll try next year. I need to get a job very soon. That is an urgent goal that I have to achieve.

This year was easy. I learned that I really want to be valedictorian and I don't think I have the greatest grade point average yet. I found out that I am pretty good and fast at math, but before I was luck to get an A. I noticed that in hardships at home, I can still achieve good grades at school. This freshmen year has been a long, understanding myself year.