Growing up sucks in a good way.

When I was in high school, I was like most and didn't care. I did just enough to pass. I didn't take AP or duel credit classes nor did I even think about it. I was an average C student and kept it that way all 4 years. Not to mention I was like that in junior high too. I won't say I wasn't pushed by my parents because they did care about my schooling. I just set my standard and they followed it. When it came to tests, I defiantly didn't study. If I had a project I did just the bare minimum. I was that student. When TAKS test came around I barely passed them, which is scary because your junior year if you don't pass, you don't graduate! Everyone knows you have to take your SAT or your ACT for college applications. I took them, and didn't do so well but didn't care to take them again to improve my scores. Little did I know it was all gonna come back and bite me in the ass. When I graduated, I wasn't very high in my class. I went to start filling out applications for college and my transcript with my scores from everything were rather frowned upon by colleges. When I simply decided to just come to Lee College I learned I had to take all remedial classes that took up my whole first year in college. I knew it was going to set me back. Classes began in the fall and I was still in that high school mind set. I didn't care and quickly learned neither did my professors. I messed up a lot my first semester. I was partying, not studying, gaining weight, just everything in the book. Then my second semester, that spring, I made a major change. I started working the same days. I set a workout schedule up and had hours each day for school work. I stopped partying so much and really changed my life around. Some say I grew up in a way and just realized I was an adult now and I couldn't just live in that life anymore. It took some getting used to but by the fall semester, I had improved my GPA. I had lost 50lbs and I had even gained a whole new group of friends that were in that stage of life I knew I needed to be in. Here I am finishing up my 6th semester, my GPA isn't the best but it is better then what it would of been if I had stayed in that other mind set. I'm graduating from here with a degree and the first of my family to do so. I'm down 80lbs and still working at it. I have a little case of "senioritis" all over again but I am trying! I do finally get to take a summer off and enjoy it before I continue with my school at a university. I just know to look back and see how far I've come and tell myself I changed for the better and grew up dramatically!