THE FACES OF GRADE CONSCIOUSNESS

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By Rachel Mae Joan Naluis Sansolis
IV - Isaac Newton


Handling the role of a student is very fragile. Once you give up, you will carry the burden on until you grow up. But in studying, there is a certain principle students are trying to maintain, and that is the consistency of their grades. In our life, especially in our stage of high school days, it is really hard to control and to bring up everything that can be attained for where we are right now is the stepping stone for us to do better in our future.

But not every time, we must focus our minds in studying because we live to enjoy our lives. What for our lives are if we’re not going to seek happiness? We, high school students, are teenagers. And we, teenagers, are supposed to live life happily. It’s just that if you keep on thinking some things related to being grade conscious, you will just make yourself crazy. Crazy of every concepts and formulas you study. Yes, we study for our better future. But what will happen to our future if all that we know until we reach that time is that everything that we have studied in school? The concepts, the lessons, the formulas and a lot of mind- stretching exercises. Can’t we think of any better and helpful way of stretching our minds with the practical lessons in life rather than those lessons in school which could just possibly make ourselves drowned of tiring school works?

In fact, what we need later on our future is that our own good way in finding a good job. If we are to analyze, mostly, those people who are really successful are those who are full of hope and trust within themselves. Being conscious of grades is good because you are being aware of your performances. But despite possessing consciousness of ranks, we still have to make everything up to ourselves. So much grade consciousness could be a hindrance for us to enjoy our teenager life. We have our friends, our peers, our mates, especially our family and God. I believe that besides focusing merely on our studies is somewhat different from enjoying the life of being a student and this could lessen the paths for us to meet our objectives in life.

We must remember that being grade conscious id just for people who don’t believe that there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Therefore, I know that everyone wants and deserves to be happy. That’s why we must bear in minds that if we are GC, there is always a possibility that we may loose everything that we had since the start.

Better now, we must continue to live life away from too much stress and burden from school works and minimize worrying about grades so that if you have grown up already, you may have so good memories from your teenage life. And at least, you can reminisce that once in your life, you have experienced real happiness through your childhood days, especially when you were in high school with your mates, peers, friends, best friends, your understanding and considerate teachers even if you didn’t obey them at times, of course, in your past student life at school.