<p>I've been home schooled since 4th grade. Long story short. Summer thing at school. Parents took a while to pick me up after they said they would, asked teacher to call, they didn't answer. I assumed they were dead. After that I cried and cried to my parents that I don't wanna do to school anymore. If that hadn't happened, I'd still be in public school. But I'd probably had never discovered my love for knowledge. I'd probably be like my friends, obsessed with sports and hip-hop, say school sucks and I have too much swag to be in school etc.</p>
<p>All of my 4th-8th grade home schooling was done with my father. The way it worked is that he was the teacher, but mostly just graded certain things and assign projects, tests etc. I will say I did slack off, even though I liked learning. I did learn a lot, but I would have overdue work, get distracted easily by my phone, and other things. </p>
<p>but this year, my dad picked an option to have someone from the school to take his place. I became more serious for some reason. I enjoy reading everything(I use to not read everything and skip parts I thought weren't important). It's as if I try to soak up everything. </p>
<p>I also want to ask my parents if I can take some program to learn more. I heard tutors aren't very helpful since they just copy things from textbooks. I know that's not always the case, but I heard about something called "Cambridge Learning Center", and I got really attracted to it. I think the teacher was on the admissions committee at Harvard. </p>
<p>I've had a recent interest in psychology. I found out that I've had anxiety and paranoia since I was little, so I guess that 3rd grade experience just let my anxiety take control over me.</p>
<p>Anyway, I think I'm fine now. I'm in 9th grade. I've told myself that I WILL attend public school this year in grade ten. I still have my problems, and I'm going to ask my parents to take me to a psychologist before attending public school.</p>
<p>But yeah, I REALLY like learning. I feel like I'm the earths student or something. I like math, psychology, history, political geography, astronomy, sociology, anthropology, marketing and economics, investigating etc.</p>
<p>I really wanna be an example to my family as well. Also to my background, which is Mexican. I'm American, but my parents are Mexican(no, they're not illegal!), and I wanna show people that people of Mexican descent can also succeed. I wanna be someone who can make a change and just feel like I did something with my life, but helped others as well! I don't wanna choose a career where I won't be able to learn more or not be able to use my love for certain subjects. I wish I could major in all of them.</p>
<p>I feel kind of bad that I can't share my knowledge with the people I know(except my parents...they're very supportive), since they find it "boring". I guess everyone has their preference. Like my brother finds what I like boring, but he loves robotics and medical stuff. Cellular things and whatnot.</p>
<p>Anyway, would I have a chance? I'm willing to do anything to succeed. I really don't wanna just be a "normal" human. You know, just another person.</p>
<p>When I go to public school, I wanna be involved in clubs I like, such as German language/culture, psychology, Academics UIL, national honor society, theatre-acting, and model United Nations.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if I should join them all though. I heard that people who accept you into universities find this suspicious and will think this is all just to impress them, and not because you find interest in them. I've read about these clubs on the school websites and I think I'd quiet enjoy them though! Should I just start clubs?</p>