All About Me Essay High School

Setting goals for the future is important to me, because it gives me motivation to meet that point when it comes time. To start with, the first goal I have for my future is to graduate from Verdigre High School in the spring of 2016. This mark is almost met, but still seems far away. It will always be a destination of mine, until it is reached. Secondly, the next goal of mine is to attend a college in Nebraska, to become a Physical Therapist Assistant. I will do this by attending a Community…

interview with Rakeem, I think it would be injustice to not explore the roots and development of education among inner-city schools. Rakeem, having attended a historically black college before coming to Bowling Green, highlighted on the similarities and differences between the two. Rakeem talked a lot about the educational gap between what he learned at his pre-dominantly black schools compared to Bowling Green State University. Rakeem said he often times felt ill-prepared and less intelligent…

Not long ago, I was reminiscing with a friend about our days in middle school. She kept going on and on about how amazing her grades were back then, and I couldn’t help but think to myself, “Wait, people actually tried in middle school?” About 4 years ago, I couldn’t have cared less about the grades I received on my report card. I was perfectly content with getting a few F’s – after all, I assumed, what harm would they do me in middle school? It’s not like colleges looked at my eighth grade…

can help children succeed in school and even in life. that he gave that stood out to me were self-control curiosity and optimism. I think that if children use all three of these characteristics they will succeed in life and in their education. self-control is a major part of child development, it is important because without self-control the child would can get out of hand and hard to handle and be rebellious which would lead to the child not paying attention in school and most likely to get…

homework and attend school every day. I had a lot of up and downs since I was 14 years old. My parents divorced and my favorite grandmother passed away my freshman year of High School. Basically I grew up fast in a short amount time. I had a lot of friends in school and I knew I was smart. I never applied myself even though I would see my friends studying for tests and working on homework I had the mind set I’ll do it later, but later never came. Until my junior year in High School and that’s…

All I have ever wanted was to go to a school I am proud of that presents me new opportunities to expand my personal skills and knowledge. Well, here I am! Here being Florida State University: a school that means more to me than words can even describe. Now just for some basic background, I was that student who, in her freshman year of high school decided on the college I was going to attend, and by my junior year when it came time to apply, I was confident in my acceptance to Florida State. A…

students, choosing to attend college after high school is an easy decision. Some are expected by their families to continue into higher education post high school graduation. I know a few people that are so motivated to attend college that they already know for sure what they are going to major in before they were even freshmen in high school. For me, I was not falling into that category. College was something I did not consider throughout my time in high school. The thought of attending…

The third part of my autoethnography is about my academic work after graduating high school, and the plans I have for the future. I was 18 when I was at my last year of high school. I did not have too many friends in high school, as I like to keep to myself. Even though I did not have too many friends I still did not study much since the classes seemed easy to me and I thought that passing a class was enough, so I did not focus on my GPA. As the education system Turkey requires, I had to take…

have to deal with strenuous amounts of work from school or with peer pressure. Though the pain may seem unbearable, Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel Speak indicates the purpose of surviving through rough times. Melinda Sordino, the main character in Speak, is not having a great life. She has ruined an end-of-summer party for calling the police. Now, Melinda is left with no one to talk to, with no shoulder to cry on. She starts her first year of high school wondering how to survive. Eventually,…

Why I Went Back To School Going back to school has been the best decision that I have made in a very long time. It truly hasn't been easy at all but there is so many positive outcomes that have happened to me since I have returned. I return back to school for so many reasons. The main reason for returning to school was to help with my mental health problems that I have been diagnosed with. Another reason for returning back to school was for my brothers. Lastly I went back to have a better…