Reflective Essay: How High School Has Changed My Life

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I am sorry if this essay is late, I have been preparing to move. This year a lot has changed for me and my eyes have really began to open to the world around me.I have made many mistakes , but I have also overcame tough times? My experience at Churchland has shaped me into a better person each year that I have attended this school. Freshman year was one of my lowest years, and each year that I excelled, I felt that outside forces made the journey harder than what it had to be. However, I still remain focused on my goals for senior year ; my main one being to make it into the first college program , to gain an experience of what college could be like ,and to become a better student. Coming into highschool I had no previous study skills , or good student habits. I think struggling through the first year of highschool changed my perspective of how I should strengthen my skills and to take what I was doing more serious. I found out about the First College program at my sophomore meeting with my guidance counselor , we went over the overview of the program and I was immediately interested in how to get in the program and how I could benefit from being in the program. Once I got home , I told my mom …show more content…
I think that TCC and its professors would help me reach new potential that I haven’t discovered within myself. TCC is a new field of education and I think the program is about what school can offer students as well as what the student can offer the school. Me as a student I think I could give the school an understanding into how children of my generation need more of an insight into the world around us and we need people to motivate us into learning about the world in front of us because change is constantly happening. I think that Tcc gives me the chance to develope new skills, fix old ones, and break bad

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