Obstacles in the road - Need assistance with UCF Prompt

Prompt is the bump in the road. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Sometimes we are the bump in the road. I had always done well in school, until last year. Eleventh grade was certainly not my best year academically, but it was a huge year in terms of personal growth and realization. I just wish that realization would have occurred before I had to see the disappointment on my mom's face when she opened the mail containing my final report card. While I don't know whether my slip in grades was due to a lacksidasical effort or just being too cool for school, I do now know that those behaviors have consequences, whether it be having to retake a class, losing a good student driving discount or seeing that look. I have realized to achieve my goals, I first have to identify want they are and then work feverishly to obtain them. My experience has taught me to learn from my mistakes and avoid repeating them. I am going to have to work hard in my senior year and put forth a serious effort into my studies in order to undue the damage I myself did to my GPA. I've also learned the sense of self-satisfaction that you feel when you've put forth your best effort is the feeling I want to have and is the one thing no one can take away from you. The road of life will contain many bumps and I plan to plow right over them by putting forth my best effort in all of my endeavors.

Hi

Sounds like a good one. Just need a little more detail the mistakes you made. Elaborate more when you said "I will never again compromise who I am by just going with the flow"

I also suggest that you rephrase this sentence "I've decided to learn from my mistakes rather than repeat them." to " My experience allowed me to learn from my mistakes and avoid repeating the same mistakes in life."

Hope my comment helps.

Does this flow????????

"Consequences" is plural; "it" is singular. Replace "it" with "they."

"...in order to undo the damage..."

Be sure to proofread carefully to find homonym errors that spell checkers won't catch.

Revised. Any help???

Good job. Love the first line. Extra points for "epiphany" -- one of my favorite words.