I didn’t get to Talk with Madison That much, so the information I’m about to share won’t be much.

Madison is a First Generation College Student from her family, although her dad went to college to study in the medical fields, he had to drop out due to lack of financial aid, this was the case for many people in the previous generation, unlike us who are given education for basically free, only wealthy would have a chance at college, Growing up as a first-generation college student isn’t always easy since there is a lack of passive guidance(your parents), this, however, can be countered if you talk to people and ask for help, but Madison was an introvert, during her early academics, Madison didn’t reach out for help, she didn’t thrive for more than what was needed to pass the class(someone prusing education shouldn’t be doing this), Madison later came to the realization after entering college, that a person must give it all they have in order to succeded in learning, Madison currently works, and goes to college at the same time, she may not have much time to study but there’s a saying that “your biggest disadvantage is your biggest advantage”, i hope she can grow academically, and use what she has learned as a student to teach her future students, since she’s pursing education major.

To sum it up,  When evaluating a person’s true academic self we must look at their growth over time, instead of the time they’ve spent in academics, in madison’s case her academic self only really grew after coming to college, since her k-12 academics were spent without any real goal for academics(she didn’t have a passion to learn more), Evaluation of academic self is different for different people, for example, a prodigy might have an academic growth from pre-k all the up to higher education(Ph.D.) which a normal person would have a graph that rarely goes up, in most cases it goes up until k-12 then goes down exponentially starting from college, this is due to the fact that students in lower education(k-12) aren’t taught meta-cognition, well not in the true sense(there’re only taught the first level which is to remember).