Sophomore Year Reflection

My sophomore year, 2015-2016 was a very confusing time for me. This was when I performed the worst academically, and professionally due to multiple reasons. This period of my life was a time when I was all about the “party life”. During this time, I put my social life and fitting in ahead of me. I was doing drugs, lied to my parents constantly, and had no focus in anything else other than having fun. Many things came with this though, I completely underperformed in school, I got multiple C’s, and F’s for midterms and finals. I was also an unruly student, I would always disrupt my teacher, and my fellow classmates. My part time job then at Hannaford I was extremely indolent, I slacked off constantly, and did the bare minimum of what was expected out of me. I had lost sight of what was most important to me and I completely regret it to this day because with that year, came many repercussions. My attitude then was a roadblock to my future, but I took it upon myself to improve my junior and senior year. The event that forced upon this change was after I got into a car accident the summer going into junior year. A lot of self-reflection occurred during this
During my junior year, I had changed myself from the ground up. I had stopped doing drugs, I tried my best in school which ended up being my best year in school yet. In the workforce, my work ethics had improved, I always strived to be better, I worked close to 40 hours a week over the summer, and the drive to be the best I had ever been during my employment history. My attitude had changed from how I was the year before, I stopped doing drugs, I was always honest, and grew out of the “party life”. It is now my senior year and I see myself as a better person than what I was years prior. I have developed skills I never thought would be possible since the day I stepped foot in the United