Although I only had very few friends in the beginning, I made a lot of friends very quickly. Since the middle school I attended was a public school, I was exposed to more people from all different walks of life. It was also during this time period that I started to look at the world in a more critical point of view and notice class discrimination. One of my friends in middle school, named Alexis, really opened my eyes and made me see the world in a different light.…
I believe it is safe to say that a lot of our four years in high school weren’t the best ones of our life with all the school work, puberty, teen angst, social ladders, and other problems it causes a lot of stress and makes us feel alienated from people and even ourselves. My years were no different in terms of how miserable I was, but I…
Question 3 It was the beginning of my freshman year and I knew everything was about to change. I was a kid who came from Armona with all of my friends and was originally supposed to go to Sierra Pacific with all of my friends. My dad though, gave me the option of Lemoore High School and told me that, “it has so much more opportunities for you”.…
Starting high school is an overwhelming feeling as it’s the last four years of schooling where it was time to look at my strengths and weaknesses in order not to fail. I never really thought that hanging out with friends would change my focus on school. Although I had every intention to pass all my classes, peer pressure got to me to where school wasn’t important anymore. I wasn’t an A straight student nor was I good at sports, but I never intended to fail any courses. Even though I didn’t pass all my classes, it was the fact that when I failed them, it was my parent’s disappointment where I truly felt like a failure.…
When I first came to Nothern Iowa in August, I was very shy and quiet. I knew some of my high school friends were coming to UNI, but not many. I knew that I had to make new friends and build realtionships with people as well. I was very nervous to come to college knowing I would be alone and wouldn't have my parents be around all the time. The first couple of weeks were rough becuase I hadn't made new friends yet and was worried I wouldnt make any.…
Coming to a new country with a new house, new school, new people was rather nerve racking. Settling into school was one of the hardest parts along with learning a new language. I went from being a social person to being shy. A few weeks after…
I was never the most popular kid in my class and never did have many friends. This had a negative impact on my schooling because I felt that I couldn’t connect with any of my teachers, and it seemed as if they really didn’t want to connect with me as a…
School had come easy to me up to this point, but I feared that high school would challenge…
High school came along and switched everything around I would struggle in math mainly because I couldn't work with all the formulas and imaginary number, and my views for english class were changed when my literature teacher Mr.Casey, who helped me look at literature in a more life educating type of way. History was also changed to me by the way my world history teacher taught it. To this day I thrive in all kind of history, sciences, and literature classes. As I go to school I also have a part time job at Mcdonalds,it's a pretty simple and fun job, but sometimes it can also be stressful because of the customers. There are times when the customers get really upset because either their food is too cold or their food is taking too long to come out.…
As our lives go on we often remember the past. Now that Eighth grade is ending I feel like it just started. Two years ago from now I felt sick to my stomach thinking of coming to junior high and growing up. I then found out that I would be attending a school that I had only known 3 people that go there because of new house boundaries. It crushed me to not be able to go to the same school as the kids I had been with since kindergarten.…
My Freshman year was very different for me because I had changed from Franklinton Middle School to Bunn High School. I hated it at Bunn because I did not fit in and I felt like a outcast. There was some crazy looking people there but I am not the type to judge but they were some weird people. After a few days people started letting me sit with them because I would sit at lunch by myself.…
Growing up I was set to believe that high school was going to be difficult for me , and many of my teachers had their doubts that I couldn't move up to the 9th grade. During my years in middle school were possibly the funnest years of my life, but I knew I only had three years till things got really serious. Keeping up with school and focusing on getting into college was all that was told to be on your mind. Many thought I wasn't prepared because of how I acted in the classroom and how I behaved. Having fun and being with my friends was all that had been on my mind.…
Everybody changes within time, some for the good and some for the bad. I on the other hand changed for the best. About 5 years ago, I was a careless sophomore at Crestwood High School. I never cared about anything that involved school; homework, tests,…
We all listened to the same bands, loved the same teen heartthrob, and all had a similar personality. It took losing a core group of friends of mine transitioning into freshman year to show me that it’s okay to be your own person. I will say freshman year was a huge struggle for me to go through without being friends with the people that I had grown closest to in the 8th grade and years prior to 9th grade, but in the long run it has benefitted me more than I could have ever imagined that year. I now am not afraid to be alone sometimes and not always hang out with a group of people or one person every weekend. I’m okay with spending time by myself just relaxing in my room or grabbing some lunch at bread co by myself when I can.…
My last year of high school was very difficult for me. During that year, I lost a lot of important people in my family and I fell into a slump. I had depression and had to miss many of my classes in order to help out my mother and father. I realized that I was very close to failing my classes and I realized I needed to get back on track.…