“Luis you have to start putting effort into high school” my math teacher told me in junior year, Around those years i never really took my education seriously. since it was the first year of school in person again due to the covid pandemic i was still in the mindset of having to put little effort into my classes to pass, time passed and i started to realize Mr.Akintobi ;my math teacher was right, time wasn’t slowing dow i was becoming an adult with educational responsibilities, it was my liability if i passed or failed the school years ahead. I tried my best into being a better student after realizing my teacher was actually trying to help me and not just saying that because i was just another student, i would stay after classes to complete my work so i wouldn’t have rush about it once making it back hime, i would revise my work with him to make sure i did the best strategies towards solving the problems and eventually finished the year with honors roll for the first time of my life.
eventually leading me to get a recommendation from my math teacher to be put into AP calculus A/B classes and AP English and literacy classes my senior year, shocked when i saw my schedule i rushed towards his class and asked him if the list was correct about me , someone who barely ever payed attention in high school being put into such an advanced classes. while the senior year went by and graduation was coming up i saw my grade and i managed to make it through the end of the class, I vividly remember that my calculus teacher pulled me aside one day and told me he was proud of the improvement i made toward the beginning of his class till the end he said that before I graduate he only had one last tip for me and he said,”college isn’t like high school, you aren’t going to have teachers holding your hand and guiding yo step by step on how to proceed with your work” , throughout the years i still am unsure of what he saw in me that day that made him pick me, but i am gratefull for it.
(ps.sorry for the late submission i had it written on my paper and never wrote it forgot to submit it on the assignment tab)
