Essay About Senior High School

high school’s football team. I almost immediately discovered that I had the potential to become significantly better at football than gymnastics, so I quit gymnastics and devoted all of my attention to football. The habits formed by my competitive tendencies…

“Are you going to the Anchor meeting tomorrow after school?” asked Brook. I would get asked this questions like this each month by many of my senior class mates. Trying to find a balance between school work and my extracurricular activities can become quite a challenge. In high school it remained very easy to get bogged down with different organizations and their requirements to be in their club. When entering into college, I found a sense of relief when I wasn’t having to participate in so many…

One of my greatest passions is playing Tennis. Since middle school, I have been playing for my school team. After making it on varsity my junior year, I enjoyed playing even more since I was being challenged and was getting recognition for my matches. As tennis season started this fall, I continued to enjoy every moment until I realized that this was going to be my last year playing for a team since it was my senior year. This disappointing thought hovered over me during every practice and match…

little girl. My mother started talking to me about college when I was in elementary school. I can remember sitting in the back seat as she drove, and I listened to her talk about me going to college. College was always on my mind. As I grew older we went from discussing going to college to what I wanted my career to be. I’ve laid out the steps that will get me to my educational and career goal dreams. In junior high my dad was in a serious motorcycle accident and he almost died. He was…

High School Confidential by Jeremy Iverson is the true story of a 24-year-old man who decides to go back to high school as an undercover student. He attended a prestigious prep school and college, and all of his classmates were moving onto excellent careers, such as lawyers, doctors, or working on Wall Street. Jeremy did not know what he wanted to next, until the idea came to him. He had a difficult time getting a school to take him. Finally, he was able to go to Marauder High School in southern…

During my high school career, I have done multiple community service projects in order to help benefit myself and my community. In my sophomore year of high school (2013 - 2014) I was accepted into the National Honors Society. Joining the National Honors Society was a huge opportunity for me to help in community service projects and to help better my community. With this organization I was able to help with multiple service projects such as helping students at elementary and middle schools with…

Throughout my senior year of high school, I was bombarded with myriad versions of the same question, “What do you want to do when you get out of college?” The growing pressure I felt to decide on a college major, as well as a career path, weighed heavily on my mind. Of course I knew certain attributes I wanted my future job to have, such that I wanted to work with people on a one on one basis, particularly children; and I wanted my job to challenge me. However, I possessed such a limited…

It could have been as small as giving the bigger half of a cookie to a friend to as big as helping my then-boyfriend go to college by supplying him with the last $1000 he needed for school when he could not get a loan. However, growing up I lived in a community that did not allow livestock on our property but unfortunately I was a horse crazy child. Eventually my family got the opportunity to move to a small farm and I got to fulfill…

from high school to college. It 's almost like trial and error. You know what to do and what not to do. But once you get adjusted to everything that college has to offer then you 're pretty much set. . I will start off by taking you back to my younger days being a Dalton Catamount at Dalton High School. As a former high school student, I look back and think about my journey as I type this paper. While typing this, I realized I have came a long way from being a freshman at Dalton High School to…

but it took me years to develop. My first leadership role was when I was elected as Senior Patrol Leader of…