Sebbi Neises' Digital  Portfolio

In the tenth grade, I had a major struggle with keeping up. I did amazing at the beginning of the year, because someone in my life pressured me to. Then they left my life, and I never interacted with them again. After this, my performance decreased, immensely. I stopped doing my homework, I never studied, and I just tried to sleep all the time. School was a massive struggle for me. School still is a massive struggle for me. My claim for this is that struggling like I have, has helped me figure out who I am. I tried hard, and acted like a cared in the slightest, just to please someone I was with. After she left me, everything was extremely difficult. I could barely get up in the morning, I could barely take care of myself, and I was useless. In that time however, I learned about myself. I discovered new skills, and things about me that are just wonderful. For instance, I have a very weird and inconsistent taste of music. I’m very good at building and painting parts of model kits, and I can actually shred on the guitar.

 

A few artifacts that prove my struggle in school are my PP cards from Chinese. I had to try extremely hard to get these. What the teacher would do, Is give you one if you complete some sort of challenge for the class period. They were equal to one point, and were quite valuable. I became fairly decent at getting these. To do this however, I had to work really hard. I had to dedicate the period to studying for it. This shows how I overcame my struggle because I received many of these.

 

Another artifact I have is for the bottle project in math class. I did very poorly on this. My artifact is this here wine glass. This is what I brought in for the prototype. I did not make this glass, and that is why my grade plummeted. I had plans on making a good prototype, but I wasted a lot of time, and for what I wanted to create, it would’ve been very challenging. This shows my struggle because it demonstrates how I slacked off.

My final artifact is this video of me playing the guitar. This is one of my passions. It is one of the few things that got me over my struggle this year. I played when I got home, and it put me in a better mood, and made me feel great. When this happened I would do better in school because I wouldn’t be upset.

 

This year I had many struggles, but in my opinion I accomplished a lot and feel better about myself now.