Sitting in Geometry was a torture for me - I was supposed to be one of the smartest kids in my grade when it came to math. I understood the concepts extremely well, but I still made errors. We were taught the material so fast, that I couldn’t keep up. Malala’s life started off a little rough, but for the most part she was fine. Malala and I share many similarities like working hard, not giving up, and pursuing our dreams.
When I started to fail Geometry, I would study day and night for all of my tests. Even then, it felt like a B was the best I could do. I knew that I needed to work twice as hard as I usually did, so I could do just as well. When I got each of my test grades back, I had gotten worse than the last and I was devastated. I didn’t know how to get myself out of the predicament I was in and I shut down. I knew I had to do well considering the class would show up on my high school transcript.
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Last year, I had almost given up until I heard Churchill’s quote “ Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about”. I knew that I had to remember above quote every time I had lost hope. The quote empowered me to keep on trying no matter how long it took me. It was at that point that I knew that I shouldn’t give up on math. I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life thinking that I could have done better in that one class. When I had finished geometry last year, the one thing that I vowed to do was do well in Math the next year. I wanted to get an A on all my of math tests. Right now, that’s what I’m doing. After figuring out that I was studying the wrong way, I decided to change the way I study. I do many practice problems and make sure that I understand the concepts before I go take a