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High School Journey: Overcoming Struggles

The document recounts Lillian Mattmiller's challenging high school experience during the pandemic, highlighting her struggles with remote learning and declining grades in her freshman and sophomore years. After facing personal setbacks, she committed to improving her academic performance, ultimately achieving straight A's in her junior year. As she enters her senior year, Lillian reflects on her growth and determination to maintain her academic success.

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High School Journey: Overcoming Struggles

The document recounts Lillian Mattmiller's challenging high school experience during the pandemic, highlighting her struggles with remote learning and declining grades in her freshman and sophomore years. After facing personal setbacks, she committed to improving her academic performance, ultimately achieving straight A's in her junior year. As she enters her senior year, Lillian reflects on her growth and determination to maintain her academic success.

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Lillian Mattmiller

April 12, 2024

Pride Sample

Pride Sample
The idea of spending the entire school year, confined by the four walls that surrounded

my living room, staring at a computer screen for hours on end seemed bizarre, yet that was how I

spent the majority of my freshman year, my first year of highschool and I couldn't even have a

genuine experience. Then, everyone had assigned days they could come onto campus, yet that

was a far cry from the environment I had envisioned, Half-empty classrooms, every face was

covered with a mask, substitute teachers trying to navigate remote learning and having lessons

taught by your teacher who wasn't physically there, just projected onto the whiteboard via zoom.

I had no motivation to do anything involving school, like many students I have talked to, I would

sleep through classes and set alarms to join my next ones. It was my first year of highschool yet

it did not feel like it. My grades were slipping through my fingers like sand and I barely passed

my classes with D’s and C’s. My sophomore year I promised myself I would do better.

Summer passes and I am feeling excited to finally have a normal school year on campus,

I had told myself I was going to do better for myself and make sure my grades don't look

anything like they did the year before. I started off strong at the beginning of the year until

November. A video was circulating around the school about me and someone I used to be friends

with. I missed weeks of school and yet again, my grades plummeted. I was so disappointed in

myself. I had lost my motivation yet again, I had convinced myself that my grades were “too far

gone” to be fixed. At the end of the year, I made a promise to myself, again. This time I was

going to stay true to it.


Lillian Mattmiller

April 12, 2024

Pride Sample

My junior year came around and I promised myself I wasn't going to let my grades look

anything like they did the years before. I worked hard, made sure to ask for help when I needed

it, I rarely had late work, and I made up every test I would miss. I passed my junior year with

straight A’s. I had never been so proud of myself. Although my GPA shows the struggle I went

through my freshman and sophomore years, I am proud of myself for stepping up and working

harder to maintain my grades. It’s my senior year and I am still keeping and acting on that

promise to myself.

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