<p>Freshman: YEAH! (4.0 GPA)
Sophomore: OH YEAH! (4.0 GPA)
Junior: ... W T F ... ? (3.1 GPA)
Senior: zzZZZZZZZzzzzzzZZZZ (4.0 GPA)</p>
<p>Me? I can't stand High School. Our school had fights daily, was evacuated 3 times due to health issues, construction being done at all times, had a staff that is mentally deranged, and many of the students in "National Honors Society" that were accepted would fail a regular drug test (I didn't make it since I didn't participate in an after School Activity).</p>
<p>Anything I did Junior year was just shot down. MANY colleges saw the "drop in GPA" and denied me. I had an interview with the Dean from University of Pennsylvania. I showed her tapes of my school, voice recordings, and the questions on tests I was given. Her response, "How did these teachers get their degrees?"</p>
<p>After that day, I just have lost all hope in doing anything for my High School. Any motivation that was in me during Freshmen year is gone. Do any of you feel the same?</p>
<p>Luckily, my school district isn't like a certain large one about 30 miles to the east <em>cough</em>Detroit<em>cough</em> where all the teachers go on strike every year and a dank whale could get a job, so my teachers are decent.</p>
<p>Interesting subject. At times I think of myself as "using" my school. But isn't that what we're supposed to do?</p>
<p>Sometimes, I don't want to be related to the school itself. I go there for the magnet program and robotics. Nothing else, not the band, sports, etc. (unfortunately, that's what everyone else sees first). I don't hate or dislike the school, but after two years, I still don't feel part of it.</p>
<p>My motivation has nothing to do with the school at all. It is completely an internal drive for success. A lot of it is based on spite too. I so deeply long to be at my dream school that this seems like a minor hurdle in exchange for a great future that I might not get to grasp. It sucks that I did make those common stupid freshman mistakes, and even a few last year. They weren't too bad, but sometimes I have a hard time dealing with them.</p>
<p>Interesting that we're on Ch. 8 - Motivation in AP Psych.</p>
<p>yes, when i got to senior school, i were completely irritated and asked the same question as the interiever from upenn. but i have luckily changed it to one of top preps in prague, where i were going to debate club through the lost year.
its true, some high schools are extremly unmotivating. i thing most of non-preps.</p>