One of my favorite subjects has always been science. When I was younger it was science as a whole and then as I got to older grades I realized that it was biology that I loved the most. Ever since I was little I was interested in the natural world around me and I would walk around my yard and the woods around my house and pick up bugs and plants. I always wondered how plants grew and how animals survived on their own outside. So when I began learning these things in science I was so excited to finally find these things out. This caused me to always have a growth mindset with science classes. I never wondered how to write a good paper or how good books were written so I never got excited about English subjects which caused me to have more of a fixed mindset in those classes. I did the work for the outcome of a good grade for English and histories but I wasn’t as excited for these classes as I was for science classes.

As I got older I found things that I liked about English and history and I have worked on more of a growth mindset for these classes. My high school English teachers helped me find good books that I enjoyed reading which changed my learning habits and I was able to learn more and absorb the material rather than just worry about the good grade. I do notice when I am doing homework that I could read endless chapters of biology in a short amount of time whereas it takes me a little longer to read an English textbook because I have to focus harder on those.