Climb

2.02
3.25
3.06
2.48
The numbers above are very significant to me. They represent where I have come from academically and where I am now.
2.02, what I had when I received my Associate of Arts and transferred to a four year institution.
3.25, the GPA for the most recent term.
3.06 My over all GPA for the last two years.
2.48 This is my over all GPA for every class that I have ever taken. This makes me so proud.
The last few days I have been really stressed about how I was going to preform in the way of grades and GPA. This was a really stressful semester and I knew that I had to preform well. I tried all semester long to keep up and worked very hard. I was working 23 hours a week plus going to school full time. For most this would seam a bit overwhelming, for me however, I tend to preform better in school when working. Strange, I know. About half way through the semester a professor emailed me having noticed that I was in class every day and was performing poorly on each of the exams. They wanted to know what they could do to help and if grades just did not matter to me. I was relieved. I gave some detail of how stressed I seamed to be, and that although I did not want to have points thrown at me, I wanted to earn my grades, after all. He came up with a plan of how those in the class that wanted to earn some of their points back could and I was so appreciative. Another professor went to give me a test back on that I had not preformed well on and my heart sank. They could see the disappointment in my face and told me to meet them at their office, so which I did. We came up with another assignment that I could so which would (if I preformed the average of all of the previous test scores) bring me from a C to a B. I did both of those assignments. I also worried a lot about another class. This was my American Sign Language class. The final project held so much weight that I worried a bit about it. The thing is, two days before I was set to preform my final project, I changed it. I feel that I did better on the changed version than I would have had I stayed with the original plan. I guess it payed off because I did well enough in all of my classes to keep my GPA up. What a relief. Next step... working on my personal statement.
I am so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who knows me individually and knows what my greatest desires are and what I need. I am grateful that he helped me work with my professors to help me succeed to the best of my abilities. I hope and pray that I can continue to recognize the miracles placed in my life every day. Those seemingly small things that add up and really are huge to me individually. I know that without my Father in Heaven I could not have succeeded this semester.