All About Me Essay High School

All summer sixteen it was my time to graduate high school. I really could not believe twenty-sixteen were here. My last year of high school was easy, had a 3.5 gpa, and ranked 136 out of 416 students. Graduating was the most significant moment in my life because my mother was proud, accomplished my first goal, the best experience. Graduation was significant moment in my life because my mother was proud. She was excited to tell everyone in the family her child was graduating. My brother was…

freshman in high school is extremely hard , especially when all your friends went to a different high school. Here I am at Rocky River High eating lunch alone, shy to talk to anyone, and just being “a loner “ people would describe me. Meanwhile at Butler High all my friends are happy reunite with one another , have class and lunch together. The feeling of being alone sucked. A couple weeks into school they had volleyball tryouts. I decided to go since I knew how to play. Tryouts lasted for…

Throughout high school, my teachers have always said, “We are preparing you for college,” and, “It won’t be this easy when you go to college.” We are conditioned to think of college as a completely independent learning environment where spending hours studying a textbook is the key to a good grade and later, success in a career. “No one in college will care whether you pass or fail. It’s all up to you,” said my freshman English teacher. I have had the unique opportunity to test this theory out…

for me, has made the process more comforting. Being able to attend a school where I feel at home and like I can grow and succeed is something of high importance to me. School is one of the most important things in my life. I have always loved going to school and even as a senior in highschool, you can find me shouting how much I love school in the dimly lit parking lot at 7am. I’m not just saying this because I want…

How I Used Public-School While reading the essay “I Just Want to be Average,” by Mike Rose, I noticed how his schooling experience was opposite of mine, there were similarities that lied within our home life, as well as coming from poverty and then making it in the end. During my time in high school, I had my own battles to fight every day, I was homeless, had a hard time finding the courage to make it through class and was stealing the bare necessities to make it week to week. I overcame this…

going to a public school for the first time. Ninth grade, which is high school over here where I live. Walking into a public school for the first time was terrifying. I had all these negative thoughts in my head telling me that I would get lost and that I wouldn’t make any friends. I was lost and scared at the moment. I started biting my nails and my body began to sweat. Walking in the hallways "knowing" where to go but in reality, I didn't. Asking for help and nobody wanting to help me.…

An important goal I have is to go to high school, get a high school diploma Want to be the first one in my family to go to college, and get a good job I want to get a good house, be able to feed my family. The way I can accomplish This goal is to is get good grades, have good friends, don’t get in trouble with My friends and have my friends help me get good grades and not get in trouble And I’ll help my friend do well at school to and me and my friends will go to College and listen to my…

the best decisions I have made in my entire life. I needed a fresh start away from all the drama, family, and friends. The first reason I wanted out of Arizona was because I was partying too much, each and every weekend. As if life itself was going to end sometime soon and I needed to enjoy the moment while it lasted. I figured life is too short and I…

public high school; and, as a freshman, I felt excited and petrified all at once. It was hard to feel calm instead of anxious when the bus pulled around the corner. The ride wasn’t crummy, except that before I got on, Mom wouldn’t stop taking pictures and asking if I had everything in my bag. I was feeling less fear-stricken when I arrived at school, but the calm all but subsided when it was time to find my first period class of the day. The school is so outrageously huge that it reminds me…

down on First Generation students and others think that it is very cool. I know someone has told me, “Wow, I can’t imagine what it is like for you.” So far, I don’t think it has had much of an impact. As a freshman, as a First Generation student, I feel like I am doing pretty well. The first couple days before classes started I would hate logging in to ICON because it would make me nervous and give me this uneasy feeling having to look…