My Personal Narrative
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Thread Topic: My Personal Narrative
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Everyone knows that AP classes arent easy. They wouldnt be granted the title AP if they were. I remember having this over expectation of doing incredibly well in the class and that it would be easy because I earned an A in honors chemistry last year. Ive always loved math and science and thought that taking AP chemistry would be a great experience. My first test proved otherwise. It was an easy test on the material we learned last year but it was surprisingly difficult. My grade and confidence suffered as an effect.
The next day my teacher offered the entire class a chance to improve our test score. I jumped at the opportunity and found that I wasnt the only one who failed. Having a group to study with and realizing that I wasnt the only one struggling made it much easier to stay in the class. I contemplated dropping the class altogether more times than I can remember. While sitting in class I felt that everyone else understood everything with an ease that I could never achieve. Despite all that, I was making slow but steady progress.
Two months and of struggling the failure of a couple more tests went by before I understood the basic concepts of stoichiometry. I was overwhelmed with a sense of achievement, but my grade couldnt be salvaged above a C. I was heavily distraught and started contemplating dropping the class again. All throughout my high school career I trained myself that anything below a B was horrible and that I would never accomplish anything with Cs on my transcript. But then I realized something, since the class was an AP class, Cs were worth what a B would have been worth in a regular level class. This realization was one of the major factors that convinced me to stay in the class.
I was also noticing major improvement in my math, chemistry, and intuitiveness . I was learning not how to pass a test, not how to solve a problem, not how to get a right answer, but learning how to learn, how to use my previous knowledge to solve problems Ive never seen before or even been taught step by step how to do. I was learning chemistry. The solving a problem didnt bring me the joy of getting a right answers, but the euphoria of learning. I wasnt just getting answers, I was understanding the process and each and every miniscule unit and understanding my mistakes.
Ever since I took AP chemistry I started caring less about my grade and more on actually understanding the logic and process behind everything I do. I also have a new respect for the sciences and still want to make it my career if I can. I also learned that sometimes struggling is just another hard form of learning and that I end up understanding things better if i struggle through them. -
For some reason the paragraphs didn't indent and yeah I know there's punctuation errors but that not the point.
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*that('s) not the point.
Just kidding : p it's cool that you're maturing as far as understanding course material and keeping nerves goes : )
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