finalpodcast

The speaker reflects on their journey with education, starting from their early school days and experiencing personal challenges. They discuss being placed in special education classes, feeling babied and separated from friends. They share their determination to improve and eventually test out of special ed. In middle school, they enter a program for gifted and talented students and excel in academics and extracurricular activities. In high school, they enjoy a relaxed experience and take on leadership roles. They are now excited to begin their college journey at DePaul University. Hi guys, welcome back to this final podcast. Kind of sad, kind of relieving that we've gone through this journey with each other. Building and learning how to record podcasts and everything. My final podcast, I'm gonna speak about how I fell in love with school, education. How I changed my mindset of just the school system and everything. So yeah, let's get into it. One of my first core memories of going to school was me getting dropped off. I don't know if it was preschool or kindergarten, but one of those I remember my mom dropping me off. I remember I was crying so hard that I did not want to leave her. Because I was like attached to my mother. And so yeah, I remember after that I cried. And then after my little episode ended, I remember I loved going to school and hanging out with friends. And you know, playing around and learning. Later along the years, around like second or third grade, I had like personal issues with my family. So I wasn't really attending school. And it was a very significant turn of results. Because I was such like a good student and I did not mean not showing up. You know, it just caused me to never do my work or not understand class. Which just resulted in like a plateau or me decreasing my education. I was removed from the situation. So I switched schools and went to a different school. Because now I lived with my father. And that's where we realized that I really was struggling in school. It got to the point where I was put into special ed classes. Because I like really needed help. And honestly, it was a good environment just to help me like enrich the learning I needed to learn. But also, I just personally I didn't like to be babied. And I felt like you were babied a lot. It felt like you always had someone on your shoulder which I did not like. Like I was raised very independent. And I was always still like. So I don't know, I just didn't like the sense of always having someone guard me. Another thing I didn't like was that I wasn't in the same class with my friends. Which I get, that's not the point. Honestly, I hated the feeling of feeling dumber. Even though you're not, you just needed more help. I just hated that feeling. So I forced myself to get better at school. And keep reading and keep trying. Like I put two years into work ethic. If you don't know, you need to test out to get out of special ed. And also like the teachers need to realize your growth and how much you've been putting in. This basically happened during 6th grade. I got tested and I passed. And basically that's where my special ed era ended. And I just became a regular student. And yeah, for 6th grade I was just in regular classes. My school was a brand new elementary school. And it was like kind of modern and new. So basically when you're in 7th and 8th grade. That's when you're able to choose your own classes kind of. Or the teachers actually select the student. Which is kind of weird, but that's what happens. And they either see if you're like. They would have two options. Like a higher advanced class. Where it was like faster speed. And like a regular one. Like I said, my school was pretty new. So they really focused on like our careers in a sense. Or what we like and catered to. So like a lot of it was like music, art, coding, filming, interviewing, speaking. You know, just having a presence in the world. Or like having opinions. Or we also had a program of like stocking. Which was really interesting. Because I wasn't really taught at many elementary schools. So yeah, we learned how to invest in stocks. And how that worked. I was put into the program. I think it was called a GT program. Where it was like gifted and talented students. So I was put into that program. And I was a 7th grader. And I was mostly with the 8th graders at that time. And yeah, personally I think I was only put into that program. Because I did play the violin. So I was more advanced than others. And also I loved coding. And I was always coding. So also that. So I think that was the reason I got put into that program. And then in 8th grade I got chosen to be in algebra for my math curriculum. Which you can already see the growth as I made since. Being the less educated to now being one of the smartest in my class. And then I did my school broadcast. I always did cross country. In 8th grade year I became president of my student council. Which was beyond unexpected. But that's what happened. Honestly, for a period of time in my 8th grade year. I don't remember learning. I remember always being asked to go speak to other students. Or do certain things. I remember once I went on a field trip to Facebook headquarters. And learn about management. Like all of that. Like little business savvy things. At like the age of 13 or 14. I've always been like my hardest critic. So in my brain I still saw that little girl that needed so much help. So when I was applying to high school. I did not think I was going to go into Lane Tech. Or Sector Roman School. And then when I took the test. Like all my family was like you're going to get in. You're going to get in. Because obviously it's all my test scores. It's all how active I was in school. But in my brain I was like no I'm not like. I just do that. I just look. And of course I did get in. And I attended Lane Tech. Honestly I loved my high school experience. It was so chill. And everything. I went from being like I guess the number one student. To now being like an average student. Which to me was personally fine. Like I enjoyed just hanging out with friends. Like experiencing the high school experience. And especially going to big school. I got so many opportunities and chances. And I started to become president of teams. I started tutoring. I started getting active. And getting the concept of what it's like to be in college. So now we get to here. Which is the present day. And I'm so excited to start my journey at DePaul. I always knew I wanted to come. Because my brother came here. And I knew I had so many great opportunities for marketing. So yeah. I'm just so excited to learn. And grow. And expand on who I am as a person. And definitely in my career. And thank you guys so much for listening. And yeah.