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Your Grounded! Common words in other houses but not so much in mine. There was much that came to mind when thinking of high school memories. There was a time when I was left at my future high school when I was very young, suspended for one day, got my first detention academic wise is where I draw a blank. Passing school was always important but from the start on the outside look in it was an design for disaster high school, middle school and now college. My middle and high school career has always been very mild and content no real effort put forth, which may be a very strong reason I’m in English 99. I guess my story or memory wouldn’t make sense if I didn’t give a little background. I am the second youngest of six, I have five brothers and then there’s little ole me, so I guess you could assume getting all of us dressed and ready to go to school was an accomplishment in itself. School mornings were chaotic hell nights weren’t any better. There was a 6 to 1 ratio and I’m sure 3:00pm always came too soon for my mom. I can remember faintly a time when I was in middle school. There is a group of us heading towards the doors into the school and everyone had relatively the same classes . Someone in the group goes yeah “I have to get a good grade on this assignment or my mom’s going to flip” and without thought or hesitation came “Yeah I have to do good also”. Knowing my mother had accomplished her biggest feat of the morning (getting us to school). At this point in in high school and went on I became a very independent child. I mean I’ve had no choice. I’ve pretty much mastered my craft (for lack of a better word) of bare minimum making it. There was nothing to keep me going no sports no parents no teachers. As a new college student I see that that old tactic will never work. I know that bare minumun in college will never work. I plan to get very active in the school, I’ve been told that’s one of the better ways to keep grades up. Having something acadmic to grab ahold to and say you did that is a very high honor and something to be proud of. I will break that habbit of not having and academic school memories. Fall semester is vastly approaching and I look forward to getting involved with the school ,and become a more avtive student and create some of my first academic school memories.
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