Honesty is the policy and there is no way I can hide it anyway, so I’m going to lay everything down on the table. I failed Physics. Technically, since it is an AP course, I passed with a seventy-seven. However, whether I look at it as a seventy-seven or a sixty-seven, I still see failure and know that it’s my fault. First, I should tell you that I want to be an engineer. It only made since for me to take AP Physics. I knew that I would have to take Physics in college, so I wanted to be exposed to the information in depth. I refused to take it my junior year because that’s supposedly your hardest year and I didn’t want to overwhelm myself. So I decided to take it my senior year. I talked to some kids who already took it and they told me that AP Physics was a bad idea. Yet, I still kept it on my schedule because I thought of those warnings as a challenge. My brain convinced me that the naysayers just felt that I wasn’t smart enough to take on such a challenging course. I was determined to prove them wrong. …show more content…
It was nice to earn my own money but I couldn’t seem to get a perfect balance of work and homework. I started falling behind in the class and, soon, realized that my usual tactics weren’t enough but I was an old dog trying to learn new tricks. I guess, in the end, I should’ve expected it but I was still shocked when my mother told me she received a failure notice that said I made a sixty-seven in the class. I still cried like I didn’t expect it. When I get my report card and I see that seventy-seven, I’ll still be shocked. Even now, as I write this essay on New Year’s Eve (I said I was going to be honest), I’m still a little