All I can say is that my point of view on high school and general opinion of public school education has changed drastically. And maybe not so much in a bad nor good way. It just changed. As they say, you gotta live before you learn. And I definitely lived and made a whole lot mistakes (especially on exams) before I learned. Not that I am not a hard-worker (which I definitely am), but like each first-year student says towards the end of their first summer in high-school: I wish I worked harder. And I think sophomore year is really the chance to make up for the past mistakes you've made because your head was on an entirely different planet like the whole year. Not blaming anyone else for that, of course, but I can say that I mostly learn after I've screwed up pretty bad. I know that's nothing unusual for a person, especially for one in her teens, but still, I am aware that at times I acted a bit immature and definitely not like a person who wants to raise her GPA. But I beli...