Kim Villegas

05/29/2019
Period 06

AVID: Junior Reflection

Mostly everyone is scared to go into their Junior because most seniors say, “It’s your hardest year
in highschool.” This was the mindset I had before even entering my Junior year. I had signed up for two
Advance Placement (AP) classes. Challenges I had in Junior year were study habits and procrastination.
As a sophomore and a freshman, I didn’t really have to study unless it was, Spanish or another subject I
didn’t understand. It was hard, because I also missed a lot of school that put me in a disadvantage.
This year was hard, because of a class I took. I should’ve taken the intro class first then instead of
going straight into a rigidus class. This particular class I took at first it was fast paced, because the
teacher had expected for everyone to have taken the intro class before. That just meant I had to study
more than the rest of the students that had taken the intro class. Another way I also overcame my study
habits was my teacher taught me how to take notes and how to study off of them. My history teacher
taught me to do that.
Some life lessons I learned through my Junior year was to have fun. As cheesy as this may sound
I learned to not take anything for granted. Since I have a lot of Senior friends it hit me at the beginning of
the year that I will probably never see them again. Although it's sad, you just have to move on. Another
lesson I learned was to not procrastinate. As of right now I have more than 10 missing assignments and it
barely hit me that these are the grades that colleges look at. I think that if you learn that from the
beginning of Junior year than you will be an excellent student.
My best friend, Mikael helped me a lot through my junior year. We had almost all classes
together except for three classes. He helped me by reminding me about homework or having little study
sessions with him. One of my club advisors, Mr.D, helped me a lot as well. Although he was never my
teacher he was one of the teachers I got close to. He didn’t mind helping me with math after school. I
think that helped me a lot, because whenever I had a question I would go to him for the answer or as Mrs.
Vasquez, my history teacher. She also taught me to write clear and precise notes. There were many more
people that helped me throughout Junior year but these were just three examples.
Since I’m not in any sports this year my most proudest thing I’ve done my Junior year was
getting CPR certified and helping other students getting certified. In my household most of my family is
certified, so when I was certified I was excited, because I was the youngest one in my family to get
certified. Not only was I certified, but when my teacher told the whole class about a school-wide
certification I was extremely excited. I’m even more excited for next year, because I will help out in my
teachers intro class and help even more students to be certified.
I’ve never been in AVID so coming to that class was new to me. Something that AVID taught me
was that it’s okay to not know the answer. For example, the TRF’s can be excessive at times, but it taught
me that it’s okay to not know the answer, and its okay for someone to help you. When we first started
doing TRF’s I was shy to go to the board and ask quesitons. As time went by I slowly got out of my
comfort zone, and was able to be okay will not knowing the answers. Sometimes people need help and
that’s okay, too.
 I accomplished some of my SMART goals, and others I was close to accomplish them. I prepared
myself by sometimes looking through my goals and planning ahead how I want to accomplish them. I try
to do as much as what I put down on my SMART goals. Sometimes when I don’t have homework, I just
look through my goals and determine if I’m were I want to be. I still need to have an A in history, A in
floral and I would meet my goals.