Growing up in Southington, Connecticut was a great place to grow up in. I’ve made many great friends, memories, and learned a lot of skills from school. In school, growing up I was always around an average student. I was never the one to be excited about school work but i was disciplined enough to do it. But, I had one weakness. Mathematics, growing up, doing math made me feel like I was put inside of an oven and slowly burning to my death. A bit of exaggeration but you understand what I mean. I always felt like I couldn’t do it or it was just too hard for me.

As I got older school got tougher and the work load became heavier. Not suprisingly, I fell behind. I became a very low motivated student. Especially in math, my mindset was terrible, I would look at the problems and papers my teachers gave me, and give up. Except when it came to the last semester of my sophomore year. I was failing in geometry, the teacher consistently showed me she had no interest in helping me and stated to me multiple times throughout the year, ” you are just one of those football players.” One day she told me that I have to get a 86 or higher to pass her class on the final or I will fail her class and jeoperdize my elegabilty for the net football season. I have to say this was the first time in a long time that I looked myself in the mirror and told myself I can do it. I met with a tutor 2 times a week for a month before the exam. Turns out I passed the exam with a 92. In life your judgments can make the biggest difference in the best way and the worst way if you let it. From then on, I knew I can learn anything. It was whether I really wanted to learn it and how motivated I truly was.