Evan Tavares - Superman and me Essay

There has been a time where someone has expected me to fail. That time was when i was doing the pacer test, some guy that i didn’t even know told me that I was probably not even going to make it 30 laps, i just laughed and shrugged it off and said “whatever”. During the time period before the test and after he said that, I thought ‘Why would he say such a mean thing?’ But then the time comes for the test, and we start to run, it comes to the 30th lap and i feel fine and not tired at all. Then it gets to lap 50 and i was feeling fine and not that tired. After that it gets to lap 85, and i'm not that tired but my legs start to hurt a little bit but I still push it and try to get to 100. I try to get to 100 because you already know that everyone keeps it 100. When it gets to lap 100 i stop because my legs really hurt and im pretty tired. I already know i passed the guy completely, by like 40 laps he got like 50-60 something laps. So when i was expected to fail i didn't give in, and did not fail, but actually beat that guy, and i felt like i won in my head even though i did not surpass everyone, I felt like nothing stopped me.

But now, here is a story of when i did fail. This was basically last semester, and the reason why i am in night school. During the 2nd Quarter, I didn't like school at all and i wanted to give up on school, and that's what I proceeded to do. Almost half my teachers told me that i was going to fail if i didn't do anything. I wasn’t trying at all, and i was pretty good at school though, at school i would participate and know what is going on. I never did the homework though so that is the main reason as why i failed. I had a lot of detentions because i did not do my homework and i barely even went to detention too. I never wanted to be “that” person but i didn't want to do my homework because i was overwhelmed. I think part of the reason was because during the beginning of the school year i was never recognized for anything that i did good at, and at the time of the beginning i was very good at school and actually tried. I was barely stay after school and never get detentions. That's why I transferred, i felt that the school wasn't for me and i would never want to go back.