Personal Writing
By:
Eric S. Berkowitz
Pledge:
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English 12 AP
9/19/02
Period 6
Mr. Storino
I was born. It was a hot summer day in Wilmington, Delaware. The day was July 2nd, 1985. My mother had been pregnant for 9 months and 2 weeks. It was a weird pregnancy, started by me being conceived while my mom was on birth control, to a constant arguing between my parents that eventually led to their divorce when I was 2. By the time I was 4, my mother had remarried a remarkable man who I live with and love very much today. I still see my father, who remarried when I was about 9, every couple of months. We had a better relationship when I was younger, but just has his dad and he did, and his grandfather and his son, we have slowly drifted apart and have a somewhat strained relationship.
Since I started in school, I have excelled in every class I partook in. Unfortunately, as I grew older, I have become lazier, being called a so-called slacker and underachiever by many. I was always in the top of my classes until I reached high school. I still maintain a 3.7 GPA and am ranked 53rd in the class, which isn’t bad, but considering I have an IQ of 143, putting me 3 points above genius, it is not what my parents expect of me. My sister had a 4.0 and was ranked 23rd in her class. I hear constantly that I am smarter than her and should therefore have better grades, they do not realize my course load has always been harder than hers and my social life is much more busy than hers was. I realize one should not let their social life interfere with school, but after all, “all work and no play make Johnny a dull boy”. Life is to be enjoyed, and that is what I do.
