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Accomplishment

As life goes on, I have experienced many things that have allowed me to grow as a better

person. Going through tough situations makes you become aware of things, such as, coming to a

realization that we as students need to start thinking and acting mature. My high school years

weren’t as great as I thought it would be, I have been through depression, I had bad grades and I

constantly kept skipping my classes. Going through depression was a horrible experience and I

wish it didn’t happen. I was constantly crying at night, I didn’t have an appetite, I lost a large

amount of weight and it was difficult for me to sleep at night. I told my mom about this and she

was concerned about me so we went to the doctors. When I went to my doctors appointment, I

was afraid my doctor would say, “you’re diagnosed with depression”. As I went inside the room,

my doctor asked why I was there, and I told her about how I couldn’t sleep, I didn’t have the

energy to eat, and how I lost weight. My mom also added that I get irritated easily and get mad

over small things. I would get irritated when she would call me, when she told me to do things,

when she forced me to go out, and when she forced me to eat. The doctor referred me to see a

psychiatrist and told me to get my blood tested. After a few days, my doctor called to update me,

she told me that I was diagnosed with depression and she told me to see a psychiatrist. I asked

her if there was anything else I can do besides going to a psychiatrist and she told me it's best to

go to a psychiatrist to talk about how I feel. I didn’t listen to my doctor and I decided to help

myself by thinking positive, keeping a smile on my face, and forcing myself to eat more. This

happened during my sophomore year until the end of junior year and this really affected my

grades and behavior in school.

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Adding on to why and how I have grown to become a better person, I realized that I

didn’t make my parents happy, they were upset that I had become this lazy teenage girl who

gives up easily and someone who doesn’t try to listen in class. This is one of my biggest failures

in my life. I never thought that I would be the person to make my parents upset, I always wanted

to try to make them happy, but I couldn’t. My junior year was one of my worst high school

experiences because I made some poor decisions and never stopped doing it. The poor decisions

I made were constantly skipping class, not paying attention in class, not participating, and not

doing homework. During those times I skipped my classes, I would stay in a teachers closet and

eat or sleep until it was time to go to my next class. I kept the lights off because I didn’t want to

be bothered by anyone else. I continued to keep doing it because I never got caught in doing it

and I had friends that influenced me to skip. The teacher that let me stay in her closet talked to

me during lunch and asked why I’m not going to class. I told her that I don’t have the energy to

go to classes and I told her that class was boring. She helped me go through what I was going

through, encouraged me to get back to my classes and told me I can succeed past junior year.

Four weeks before school ended, I told myself that I need to do something to make my parents

proud. Those last four weeks, I had been completing late work, serving my detentions and asked

my teachers if there was anything I can do to bring my grade up. I ended my junior year with

decent grades but it could’ve been better.

When summer 2019 came up, I came to a realization that I need to start doing my work,

focus on my teachers, participate in class, and review what I learned in school. My mom and

aunt would always tell me to study hard, stay focused on school and to never give up. What stuck

to my head is, whether you have someone to motivate you to do something specific or not, you
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should never give up on what you planned for your future. My family has taught me to never

give up, even if you’re tried doing it many times because giving up isn’t the solution to all your

problems. Not only my family taught me something in life, my best friend Daniel Abesames

Hammer has been there for me through ups and downs. He taught me to see my situation in a

different perspective and taught me to be very patient. Daniel helped me calm down whenever I

had anxiety attacks and when we see each other, he makes sure I’m enjoying my time with him.

He also encouraged me to be better in school and seek good opportunities I can get from middle

college. My accomplishment this year is joining middle college for my senior year because I

wanted to get used to the college environment, have myself be prepared for college and prove to

my parents that I can be responsible and independent. I thought that middle college would help

me stay focused on my academics, become more independent and I also thought that the people

around me in middle college would encourage me to stay on task. The way I taught myself to

become better was to organize a calendar of the things I’m going to do and plan ahead of time.

What I’ve learned these past four years is to start thinking about what I would want to do in my

future because becoming mature is something necessary to succeed in life and to never ever give

up on your dream.