All About Me Essay High School

Kayleigh Underwood All throughout my life, I have faced many challenges. Some were more difficult than others, but I believe all of them have shaped me into who I am today. If I could take one lesson I learned in high school and never forget it, it would be that my challenges and the outcomes to these challenges do not define me. What defines me is how I respond to these challenges. Ever since I can remember, I have never excelled in math. It has always been one of my biggest challenges and the…

but it is to me. I value my family most, and to have my own someday would truly make me happy. Currently, I am a senior at Waimea High School, who is very eager to graduate. I have attended Waimea High School since I was a freshman. Last school year, I ended the year with a GPA of 3.8. I hoped for a 4.0 but fell a little short. I also received an award for academic excellence. I was on the girls varsity softball team for two years, but decided to take a year off and focus on school more. I…

How will colleges look at me compared to others that are applying? I hope that they will be interested in who I am and what I can bring to their campus community, and not as much on how I scored on the ACT's tests. I hope they will look at my high school achievements, all the activities both in and out of school that I have done, my volunteer work, my time on the playing field and how I have progressed academically over four years. I believe that when you look at me as a freshman three years ago…

have guided me. They allowed me to relate my history to the worlds History. It’s their work that helped shape who I am today. They made me continue my education and hope to someday educate others as well. I learned about Rigoberta Menchu a K 'iche ' native who stood up for her rights and others in Guatemala. She became the voice for indigenous Guatemalans against the awful corporations that invaded her land. Also I learned about American History between 1960s-1970s and learned about the…

equally. For example, I went to Kelly High School, which is a public high school that was on probation and had a great deal of violence and gang problems. Everyday instead of worrying about homework and exams, I was worried about my safety. Mainly all the teachers in that high school made a hasty generalization regarding the students because they believed that all of them were immature and didn’t care about school; however, the few students that did care, like me, were deprived of having a…

Salaries for high school teachers with fifteen years of experience and the minimum level of education and training required to be certified exceeded $40,000 in Denmark, Germany, Japan, and the Netherlands and exceeded $60,000 in Switzerland. In the United States, it was $35,000. With statistics like this, people wonder why anyone would want to be a teacher. Teaching is not for everyone. I personally tell people “you do not understand why people would want to teach, unless you want to teach.”…

determined to have a bright future. I have had to overcome many tough situations but they made me the person I am today. There are three main obstacles I have had to overcome in high school. One problem I overcame during high school was my medical issues. I was suffering from IBS, which made my stomach in a ton of pain. I dreaded going to the hospital because the smell of bleach and the sound of monitors made me nauseous. My IBS made my depression worse than it already was. It was a…

wouldn’t say this is a speech, but more of a reflection on my four years of high school. When I was told that this assignment was meant to give advice to the low classmen and show my fellow teachers how I have enbody the EPAA Vision through accomplishments and mistakes; well let me tell you that I had three mental breakdowns, and slept on it for a couple day until I came up with something to write. In my four years of high school I have experienced a significant amount of bad things and a few…

that I was going to get my high school diploma. My reasoning was simple, at least for me, I wasn’t going to be my children’s excuse for not getting an education. I remember my first day of class I felt geriatric compared to my classmates, but I did not allow this to deter me from my goal. Being in class at times felt like a never-ending struggle, it felt like I had a mountain of homework to climb and it still does even now. This was never going to be an easy feat for me, I understood that from…

The documentary, The Race to Nowhere, was very relatable for me. High school was incredibly stressful; I can relate with almost all of the students who spoke in the documentary. I worked 30 hours a week after school, I was in the marching band, and I was taking two advanced placement classes my junior year. The workload took effect on all areas of my life. Every class was focused on standardized testing. My school had assemblies all of the time that encouraged us to do well on them. I…