Nothing along the lines of severity I’ve heard elsewhere, but here goes nothing. In my sophomore year of high school (the last full year in person pre-COVID), whilst I was skipping class I had come across some guy who used to be a straight A’s honors student. He was skipping too, so since he hadn’t been in school in a while, and since we haven’t talked in a minute, I decided to skip with him and talk about nonsense and life at the time. While we were sitting in that staircase, I had to know why he didn’t really show up for classes anymore considering he did so well the entire first year. He told me “I don’t have a real reason to anymore.” Though this seems like a harmless enough statement, it changed the way I kind of viewed how I should approach doing things for the future of myself. Sadly it was the last time I have seen him since, as it was roughly the end of the school year, and since he was already failing horridly, there was no more reason to keep going that year. After that, we had a month of school and then COVID started around the world around November/ December. Though I never seen him again, he really did change something in me, even though it seems kind of cliche. My junior and senior year of high school, though tedious and highly unrewarding, I finished my two years above 95 average. The reason I changed so drastically when he said that is because I have a “why” because I have half my families names on my back. I can’t really afford to mess up and lose what hope we have left for the generations to come. More specifically, I have two younger siblings and a niece who watch my every move, especially with them growing up, so if I don’t succeed, there’s not too many good role models here, so I think I can bear that burden long enough. So yea, that’s my life changing revelation when it comes to my relationship with my studies.
Education with Low Attention Span
The life of an average student goes as follows, in my eyes: Wake up, get ready, go to school (online of offline), thoroughly follow all regulations of every class, go home, do whatever work is left, study, and take what is left in the day for yourself. The factors and layouts of your day can alternate for this pattern, but it usually follows the schedule of comprehending everything, or at least mostly, of what is going on in class. However, for students like me, patterns can shift greatly due to my attention span being minute (small, not scaling time). Due to this, I see a lot of learning experiences differently, as if it doesn’t heavily intrigue me, I will basically blurt almost everything out and be left at the end of the class or classes completely stranded. And to top that off with my short term memory, I guess I would be just like Dory. During my high school years has been incredibly tough, to say the least, as I’m sure you, the rest of my classmates in your first semester of college, were aware that teachers in that grade range don’t care as much as you need them to, so me not caring about the topic and you just working in a minimalistic sense to just get paid doesn’t bode well for me over time. To be more specific, I remember my entire freshman year was a mixture of me trying to make a name for myself by acting out along with putting maximum effort into learning some of the curriculum. It was, to put it frankly, a nightmare having myself force a social life while acting like I cared about school, and it further lessened my taste for education. Not to mention, the topics being taught weren’t adding on to help it either. However, more into English, that’s probably the only class that I’ve always flourished in. The topics were straightforward and allowed me to be creative and adaptive to the takes I presented. In grade 11, I had a teacher who kept reminding the class that “no answer is wrong as long as you have the means to back it up.” Now I know it seems like something so obvious, but it truly did stick with me anytime I do any form of work. English is the best class to symbolize that phrase as, even me who loses focus after even the smallest sign of boredom, I can’t get bored with writing what I feel about something, as we usually write about what intrigues us anyways. Similar to the stories which spoke about this, writing is just a resemblance of personal character, which is portrayed by how you structure your work.
