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Honors Class Reflection
Throughout my years in high school math was never one of my strongest subjects, but that all changed when I enrolled in honors pre-cal. When I received my schedule I thought there had been some mistake, the fact that I landed an honors class in something I totally sucked in was an idea that I could not get a good grasp on. I could feel my blood pressure rising and I wanted to get out of that class more than anything in the world, but there was also a part of me that was excited. There were a million thoughts going through my head at once, one minute I wanted nothing to do with the class, and the next I would be totally hyped about the idea of having another honors class under my belt.I tired to come up with every reason I could not actually stay in the class, but when I realized that …show more content…
The work was far from easy but I did not think about giving up one bit, I could no longer live with the idea that I would let a subject defeat me, fear of math is such a big epidemic in America and I was personally tired of being apart of it. I never thought it would happen but somehow the fast paced work speed helped me learn way better than imagined it could. I noticed that over time my math skills were actually improving and I was actually starting to enjoy math. Literature had always been my strong point, and I had begun to just accept the fact that me and math would not mix at all, somehow that fear of seeing honors pre-cal sparked a flare in me, and I’m thankful for my high EOC scores from the previous year in Algebra II that actually lead me to be placed into that course. My bad habits with math had been alive within me since I started school, and now it was my last year in high school and I finally broke a barrier that I never thought would be

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