9B Striving for Good Grades

I was extremely proud when I pulled up my grades on banner web this past week. When school first started I told myself that I needed to work hard and do very well in all my classes if I wanted to gain admission to the education and psychology department which requires your GPA to be above a 2.7. Also for cheerleading, I am required to keep my grades above a C- or I will not be able to practice, cheer at games or perform at events. My coaches always tell us that the reason why we are at Southern is to receive an education, so our grades always come before cheerleading. With these two motivational forces in place, I need to stay on top of my school work in order to pursue admissions into those departments and continue cheerleading at Southern.

I am happy to say that my lowest grade at this point is a B+ and my highest is an A. So far this semester I have been very successful in my classes. I am taking the necessary time to study, complete homework and assignments on time and handing in quality work. I am finding that the classes I am taking right now are at the perfect level for me. I am being challenged yet I am able to understand the course work and still receiving good grades.

For the rest of the semester I am going to keep up the same momentum I have been putting into my school work so far. The way I have been studying and dividing my time to do homework has been working perfectly to my advantage. A goal I want to achieve is not have any of my grade fall below a B-. As the semester comes closer to a close, more of my professors are going to begin throwing more assignments and exams at students, but I believe I can continue to do well as the semester closes and some of my classes begin to get harder. Another goal I have is to study and do extremely well on final exams. I always struggle with Final exams, so this year I am going to pursue more time into studying for my finals than I had ever done in high school.

So far I have had a very successful first semester. I am going to continue to do well in my courses through the rest of the semester and do well on my finals. I am very happy with my midterm grades!