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Fatima U. Guzman

Mrs. Mua

English Public Health Honors Per.3rd

April 29th, 2019

From my Past to my Present

Reflecting on my transcripts in aeries I see a drastic difference. From my grades to my

attendance, and of course my GPA. I feel like the reason for that is because before I transferred

to Merced high school my junior year I attended Johansen High school in Modesto where I

told/promised myself to get my act together and improve not only my grades but my behavior

and my general outlook on school itself.

My freshman and sophomore year ( 2 years I attended Johansen High) I was focused on the

things that didn’t matter that some students in my grade level still think is important to this day,

which were, for ex: popularity, fighting, relationships, drama, and staying more updated in

what’s going on around me instead of what’s in front of me. Which was way more important, my

education. Johansen High School was a beautiful campus! A couple of amazing teachers and

others not so amazing but a lot of students who were like me and some were even worse.

Thinking about it now Johansen had a lot of drama circulating. There wasn’t a day that went by

that didn’t involve fighting or gang related activities and instead of being that small percent that

was focused on the positive things about high school I got sucked into the negative things. But

towards my mid sophomore year I got my act together due to a major eye opener and I knew it

was time to put childish acts away and start getting it together. So I started doing my work

asking my teachers for my missing assignments and clearing my absences and working on
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serving my lunch detentions. I started slowly getting my grades to B’s and C’s, they use to be

C’s and D’s. I tried out for sports but slipped up here and there repeating my old bad habits, but

that didn’t stop me from striving to be a better me i signed up for leadership, link crew, and

some sports.

I had my junior year set towards the last month of my sophomore year but another incident

happened which caused my family to make a decision to move from Modesto to our hometown

Merced. I wasn’t happy at all I had to leave behind some good friends and my boyfriend (at the

time) right when I thought I had it all under control and finally understood things but then this

happened. What I thought was a horrible decision was actually a blessing waiting to happen. My

first day of merced high I focused on all my teachers strategies from how they taught to their

scheduling when they assign homework, do a lecture, and their personalities as a teacher. I still

had the goal to stay focused and determined regardless of my social life, my education matters

and nothing/no one will pull me from that. Yes I had a few relationships and drama but I still

maintained a 3.0 GPA along A’s and B’s. My attendance was excellent, and all those things are

still true to this day except the attendance but that’s because of a good amount of appointments

that are mandatory to attend, but I’ll find a way to make that up. I’m happy with how far along I

have come from a not so pretty transcript, to a pretty good one that has my counselor asking

“was this person who attended Johansen High even the same person attending merced high?”

and yes my counselor really did say that. Hearing him say that just proves that the path I’m on

right now is one I want to remain on unto I graduate and unto college. It wasn’t easy at all there

were many times I told myself “ I want to quit soo so so badly” but then I reflect on how much I

accomplished and conquered and reminded myself graduation is so close and I want to be the 3rd
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one in my family to graduate. I have many people and things as my motivation to stay on track

like and I won’t stop until I reach my goal, Graduation. Overall what my transcript says about

me as a person is that I wasn’t on the right path at first but I found my way to the right one and

grew from my mistakes and headed straight for my goals.