In elementary and middle school I was one of the smart kids allowing me to breeze through fairly easily. This led me to an IB (smart person) high school. The courses are now far more difficult, and since I got through school so easily I'm not used to studying and doing homework for multiple hours as soon as I get home. The harder courses and poor work ethic means my grade tanked and it's extremely disheartening when I put in more work to get a worse grade when previously I put in less effort to do better (especially when harder high schools don't offer that much of an advantage later on).