Ap Human Geography Reflection

When I first entered high school I was in a much more immature state of mind. At this time I was less willing to do my work and would never stop talking. Despite being aware of this, I decided to remain signed up for AP Human Geography because I was told that AP classes looks good to colleges. I figured that I would be able to easily get by barely doing anything, similarly to how I got through middle school. This line of thinking worked out the first week of school perfectly when the only thing we did was turn in a signature from our parents saying they read the syllabus. The following week though, things began to quickly go downhill when I realized we would be receiving homework daily that usually included reading a section of the book, taking notes on it, and making vocabulary
I decided it was necessary to do well on these parts as I was guaranteed to do horrendously on the rest of this test. After continuing to do this for the entirety of the first semester I should have finished with a 59.3% or so which was a barely failing grade, but my teacher let me make up an old quiz I missed at the last minute and I ended with a 59.6%. During winter break my mom confronted me about this asking whether or not I was going to drop the class and I decided I was going to give it another try and this time take it seriously, at least that is what I said to myself. Following this conversation, for the rest of winter break, I was constantly thinking to myself about how spectacularly I was going to do during second semester. It was as if I subconsciously knew I had not truly learned from the mistakes I made during semester one and was attempting to encourage myself with a sense of false confidence. Unfortunately this pitiful attempt at self-improvement was just me lying to myself and I dropped out of AP Human Geography two weeks into second