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High school went by very fast. i went to mid wood high school, 10 minute walk from my house, can’t get more convenient then that,.the first day of high school was on september 4th 2007. I’m not a loser i just know that because it was my 14th birthday.

i walked into room 454, guitar class. i was only 30 minutes late. i thought i was on time, see someone told me that period 5 started at 10:45 and i didn’t care enough to check the day before. my teacher wasn’t happy about the lateness, but he’d have to get used to get used to it since i was either 20 minutes late or absent to his class every day. come on, why would they make my first class a guitar class ?? and then lunch? i ended up getting a 95 in that class.

that kinda set up how i would treat the next 4 years of high school.i was class of 2011 and that seemed like a long time away so i figured id eventually get serious about my classes. i never really did. i always just did enough to get decent grades. decent enough to get into Baruch apparently. junior year was probably the year i put in the most effort because for years people would always tell me that that is the  years colleges look at. so i got myself into the “gifted” classes at mid wood and got above a 90 average for the first time ever. i wish that junior year mentality would have stuck with me, but it didn’t. we all know how hard seniortitis hits you. most work i did senior year was dealing with the college office and applying to colleges.

now I’m here at baruch and just haven’t taken any of our classes seriously. i want to, but when i go home i either nap or watch tv of hours. thats really bad since we actually have to do the readings we get here just to know whats going on in class. i think I’m just going to barely have a c average at this point. hopefully i ll get serious soon, hopefully.