Essay About Senior High School

Graduating high school has been one of the biggest milestones of any young adults life journey, right up there along with getting a first job or a first car. From one side of the field, graduating early seems to be the best option. From graduating high school early to lay on the couch and just enjoy day to day life before everything changes into a routine that lasts for upwards of 60 to 70 years to travelling the world or starting an advanced academic career as a exchange student, the options…

“School can bind as effectively as it can liberate; it can enforce conformity and limit life chances as well as foster individual talent” (Colombo, 107). I attended DuBois Area High School, which is a public high school in a middle class town. There was about 1200 students in my school so I knew a lot of people but I would see new faces almost every day. I believe there are good things and bad things about public high schools because they have good and bad programs, they push you to go to…

In high school did you really care? Freshmen year English, is different teachers, the boring writing assignments that seem pointless, you don’t really care. Webster County High school isn’t like most high schools. We do things a lot differently! Some students don’t even do their assignments especially not their English homework. I was different, I loved English and I remember Tammy Rich making me into the teacher’s pet. It was the first week back from summer back and she made the entire class…

High School It is said that high school is some of the best years of your life. You’re going into a new place with new faces and new opportunities, one does not know what to expect. I know I was terrified going into high school for the first time, but who isn’t? Each year brought new challenges and a new routine to get use to. Everyone has had a different and unique experience of high school, beyond the stereotypes. For me, high school was a place where I could “spread my wings” and try new…

For years, seniors at Preston High have been required to present a portfolio in order to graduate. While this tradition has been preached to the students from the start of freshman year, no one begins to take it seriously until a few weeks before they are due. During those last couple of weeks, everyone runs around trying to dig up any examples of good work, peer reviews, transcripts, letters of recommendations, along with many other odds and ends from their high school careers. The result of…

study from 2015 states about 49% of high school students feel a great deal of stress on a daily basis (Ossola, 2015). For seniors, the stress may feel higher, because they may feel overwhelmed by the thought of college around the corner (Nelson, 2014). If students start preparing for college their freshman year, this could reduce the stress. There are many benefits to prepare for college early on in high school (5 Benefits of Early College Programs in High School, 2017). College-bound is a term…

four years in high school could change a person as much as it could change me. When I first entered high school as a freshmen, I expected my high school years to be like what I witnessed in movies and television shows; I was somberly wrong. Over the past four years, I have experienced heartbreak, misperception, and self-doubt. However, I am thankful for these seemingly hopeless situations because they have shaped me into who I am today. When I started out my freshmen year of high school, I had…

High school as everyone knows, is popularly known for the annual homecoming, football games, and the magical senior prom. College application due dates are near, and the senior class realizes it’s time to face reality and get serious about their future. Starting a new chapter and entering a different atmosphere, which every high school senior has to make. Having some kind of support gives a person on how two difference places that we all spend our time at, have a lot of different aspects but…

3 coaches in 4 years is whats the Seniors at Inman High School’s senior football players have seen, the past two years have been at dry spell at the high school with only winning two games. They have a new glimmer of hope as Inman Aluminum Lance Sawyer returns to coach this fall season of football. He graduated from IHS in 2003, while in high school he played football, basketball, and baseball. During an interview, he stated, “Believe it or not, baseball was my best sport.” He attended Kansas…

Students’ entire high school career is unfairly summarized by a single assessment: the ACT. The final year of high school is consumed by college applications and scholarship essays. Many students prepare for a significant milestone – starting college – starting before high school. College admission offices and scholarship committees do not consistently contemplate all that students offer; instead, the ACT is used as a measurement of which students will succeed in the college environment.…