Everyone’s day is filled with them. For some, their challenge is getting up in the morning, and for others, it’s getting a promotion. These challenges are what shape our character. My biggest challenge thus far has to be AP Chemistry. It was my first AP class, and I was not prepared for what came with it. Throughout my school career everything was pretty easy. I never had any homework, the work was not very difficult and I could do it on my own. Not in AP chemistry. AP Chemistry is the class…
was known as the math know-it-all because I would be finished with homework assignments before class was even over. Thus, in ninth grade, my Algebra I teacher told me that I should go into a honor level math class. My first honors level class was a breeze to me. We could hand in homework late, revise tests and quizzes, and had perfect notes given to us in class. In Algebra II, that all changed. My first week of Algebra II, I realized things were going to be a lot different. We were instructed…
favorite subjects so I thought this class would be the perfect opportunity to merge both of my interests into one. American Studies is a course that none of the other high schools that I was looking at had and I think that was definitely one of the deciding factors for me. I knew I wouldn’t have another opportunity to take a class like this in my high school career if I went somewhere else. I chose Penn Charter and every year, my heart was still set…
Mountain Day, Pangy Day, and Convocation are three of the most anticipated traditions in Mount Holyoke College; however, there is one tradition that no one knows until the middle of October, it is called Elfing. Elfing is a tradition between the first years and the sophomores. It has been around for more than fifty years. Elfing was not really called Elfing until the year of 1966 when the first years of that class said enough was enough; the class decided that instead of hazing the first years…
The Immigrant Son The day has finally come, which I wish it didn’t. The day that I have to leave everything I have in my life back there. I was born in a small town in india and grown up in hyderabad. My life was just boring. My parents wants me to be a “nerd” while I wanted to enjoy with my friends. When I got home, My mom and dad would be an inch away from my face that, I could see the sweat running down on their cheeks and I could feel and hear the sound of their breathing, scolding me, when…
and I am out of here”, I whispered to myself. It is was first day as a junior at George Ball High School and I could not wait for my last to come. I walked up the stairs to my first period class, where I saw underclassmen pacing up and down the hall trying to find their class. I stepped into my AP English 04 class and noticed that I was the first one to arrive. A strong smell of freshly brewed coffee hits me as soon as I sat down on the first cold seat that I saw. While I was taking out my…
The two passages talk about if high schools should have an earlier or later start time and how it affects high school students. In the first article it talked about if high schools should start later to help sleepy teens. The second article talked about if high schools will keep earlier start times. In both articles the authors have their own point of view about their articles. In article one the author stated his claim about if high schools should start late to help sleepy teens. Most high…
On the first day of school, the teacher’s first words were, “Welcome to AP Chemistry-this is a difficult and vigorous course.” The teacher explained the depth of the material we would be learning, telling us that it would cover an entire year of college level chemistry in a high-school setting. Most importantly, it would be one of our first courses that we would have to learn the material by on our own. Being the responsible and attentive high school teenagers we were, nobody in the class took…
student stepping off the bus on the first day of school, nervous about walking from building to building, getting lost, and not finding classes. All the students reuniting with their friend groups from the previous year and first bell rings and kids scurry to first hour, all the freshman counting the classroom numbers looking for their destination. The minuet bell sounds with a simple ding, ding, and finally has found their class. Freshman year can be frightening at first but it gets to be…
It was my first year being an independent teacher for Vacation Bible School at my church. I had taken this initiative seeing no one else was up for the challenge to teach six to seven year olds, even though the meeting for VBS had been filled with adults. I had an idea of how it was often helping my older sister in past years to help take the kids from class to class, but the pressure of being in full responsibility of them was something I had never experienced. It was frightening yet exciting.…