During the COVID-19 pandemic I really got into professional wrestling.
I loved the wrestlers and the action in the ring. I even put together a weekly schedule of events I’d watch.
Every Monday, I watched “WWE Monday Night Raw”. Tuesday nights were for “NXT”, a program that promotes the next generation of professional wrestlers. I wrapped up the week on Fridays with “Friday Night SmackDown.”
Sometimes on Saturdays I got bonus coverage as WWE hosted Premium Live Events, which feature championships for superstars to compete for titles.
So for the past five years, you can say I was pretty into wrestling, which led me to realize something as I prepare to graduate.
My high school career has been a lot like pro wrestling.
Every class is like wrestling in the ring. I always overcome every challenge in front of me.
My high school life has always been a challenge. Like professional wrestling, I’ve had many rivalries with the biggest one was math, especially algebra.
Every time I entered my math classroom, I felt like superkicking it in the face. Algebra counters with math questions. If math was a heel, which is like a villain, it would attack me from behind.
Sometimes, it would distract me with unexpected math problems just as a heel distracts a ref while his partner hits an opponent with a baseball bat.
Eventually, the ref will catch them cheating and send them to the locker room. This is when I’d use my finishing move to defeat the algebra test.
Like a long wrestling match, sometimes I can’t even rest because of the number of worksheets coming at me that I had to do. I felt so exhausted because of all the equations and functions I have to tackle.
Some of WWE’s most memorable moments come from the epic rivalries, like Randy Orton vs. John Cena.
Similarly, a memorable moment for me was when I had to face Algebra 1. It wasn’t a great time because every problem seemed difficult. But I took them head on and was eventually victorious against it.
Even though Algebra 2 was an even harder opponent, I always had the strength to get up off that mat and fight. And at the end of the day, I was always the last man standing.
