Growing up, I had a rough childhood. My parents divorced and it wasn’t one of those kind happy divorces where they remain civil and maybe just remain friends. It was full of shouting matches and just a huge mess and this didn’t quite help me when I started going to school.

I was never a great student, I was easily distracted, lazy, and underdeveloped mentally. Most of my academic feats back then were being good at spelling tests and reading, but really besides that I wasn’t a great student and when it came to Math Or P.E I was just hopeless.

Middle school and junior high wasn’t the greatest either, I went through about five schools until I found one that worked, a charter school called Paradigm, and there I did my best so far, but then issues arose at home, and my grades started slipping. I got in trouble a bunch. Overall, it wasn’t my best performance.

Everything changed when I moved to Colorado and started high school, and that was when I managed to start doing good. I wasn’t at my best though, as I was still failing classes, and being lazy, but I had done good enough so that I was mostly on track to graduate. Part of this had to do with the fact that I was finally in a stable household, having two consistent parents definitely helped. But due to circumstances we had to move, and for a while we had no idea where we were going, until we got a job to come back to Utah.

It was definitely hard leaving, I had made so many friends and we had so much work that needed to be done before we could leave, but eventually we did and I found myself at Weber High.

Weber High has been great for me, I’ve enjoyed my time here, done things I never thought I would, done well in classes I never thought possible. I took a German class (Didn’t really like that, sorry Frau Moss!), I worked in a library, started writing my stories, reviewed games for journalism, and made some of my best friends.

And now, I stare at the graduation stage, ready to leave high school behind and step into the twisting path of adulthood. If you are to take anything from this, know that you aren’t hopeless, that no matter how much you failed, you can still graduate, if you just put the hard work into it.