Self Assessment 

The classes I take are:

        1) American History

       2) Chemistry

        3) Chinese

       4) AP English

       6) Algebra 2

       7) Junior Seminar 

Im doing well in my first period class.  I think I'm doing pretty well in chemistry too.  In Chinese I'm doing the worst because almost the entire grade depends on behavior and homework.  Same goes for AP English. In algebra 2 I'm barely passing.  Although I did most of the classwork and excelled in my test scores, I didn't do any of my homework which resulted in my barely passing status in that class. In junior seminar I do most of the work so I'm passing.  I'm pretty sure I understand most of the things that are being taught to me but I'm just lazy so I don't do the work.  This has resulted in my grades dropping.  What I could do is find some motivation and stop slacking so that I could bring my grades up.  I do the work in the classes that I like, so I guess what I could do is learn to appreciate the subject I don't like? Maybe that would be the solution to my dropping grades. 

Settling For Mediocrity

       There are many ways that I've settle for mediocrity. For instance, I'm aiming for my diploma rather than doing well and choosing to excel.  Another example of when I've chosen mediocrity is when I've gone out to eat and rather than spending more money for better food, I chose to save and have the more mediocre food.  I'm sure my life would definitely be different if I made different decisions, like my stomach would have been happier that one time if I wasn't afraid to spend more money and I'm sure I'd probably have an easier time right now if I wasn't afraid of not knowing what could happen in the near future.  Allow me to clarify.  I'm scared of not doing something that would make me happy now because I don't know what could happen in the next minute, the next hour, or even the next week.  So many things could happen to you, like you could suddenly be crushed by a building tonight, hit by a car, experience spontaneous combustion.  I'm afraid of failing to do something that would make me a less happy person were something to happen to me.  My life would probably be much more simpler, although a lot more dull, it would probably better in certain aspects.  Ways people can overcome their fear of failure is people could simply care less.  Other ways is to look forward to the future and think of the positive consequences to what they are afraid of failing to do.