Learn from Other People's Mistakes by Liliana Alvarez

Have you ever seen your friends talk about something so cool and bad at the same time? They talk for hours on what they have done and how fun it was. I remember my freshmen year, everything seemed so new to me and hard. I was really nervous, but all that went away during the middle of the year. I started meeting new friends and felt more comfortable with school. As I met new friends, it was during the middle of the year when people started skipping and doing drugs. My friends were part of it and since I seemed I was getting left out of all the fun. I began skipping class and not caring about school. I started waking up pretty late for school. School started at 8:00 a.m. That hour seem super early for me to wake up so I ignored the time and left for school at 12:00 p.m. My grades began to go down a lot. I continued doing this when I got into 10th grade. I don’t even know how I made it to 10th grade with me slacking off in school, but I made it.

Therefore, my family started noticing a difference in the way I acted and in my grades. I used to be an A and B student and it went down and I became a D or F student. Also, my older brother caught me deleting a voice message on the house phone, which was from the school saying that I missed class that day. He got into me a lot, he told my parents about how I changed. My parents were hardly home; they were worked all day. My family changed me. They got stricter; they talked to me and showed me how disappointed they were toward me. They got on my back a lot until they saw a difference in school and my attitude. I changed a lot in high school, I learned from my mistakes and I know I won’t be making them again.

From this experience I learned a lot. I learned not to be a follower, which means don’t do what everyone is doing just because they are doing it. Another thing is you should take your freshmen year more seriously because it is your first year. In high school teenagers, especially freshmen, get caught up in the high school drama. It messes them up throughout the year that’s how I messed up because I got caught up in high school drama but you just have to over come all those obstacles that come towards you.

I am not the only one that messed up in there freshmen year. A lot of teens do because they are new to it and they do what there friends do in order to fit in and not feel left out.

Freshmen can learn a lot from my experience. They can get a clear picture on high school life and the things they should avoid during there freshmen year. This will help them to not make the same mistakes I did my freshmen year. It helps them to be prepare for high school life, but in reality high school years are the best years. You learn a lot and you grow up and become prepared for the real life. The one piece of advice I think is important is to not depend on other people, rather then your family. Friends aren’t always going to be there. The ones that are always going to be there by your side through good and bad are your family. I think family should be the most important. It should be your first priority.

In conclusion, freshmen should keep in mind other people mistakes. They should take this experiences and advice into consideration. They could get a lot from this and it will help them through out their four years.