High School Experience Essay

The long, unhappy buildup to my happiest experience began many years ago, when I first started school. Even on my very first day of kindergarten, it was already clear to me that going to school wasn’t going to be something that I enjoyed. I was very shy and withdrawn, and the other kids weren’t at all interested in being friends with me. They never seemed to like me as much as they all liked each other, despite my efforts to try and fit in. The kids in my class didn’t see my quiet nature as…

For the past two years in my high school experience, I’ve been in quite a few extracurricular activities. The first one being in 9th grade by participating and being a member of the school’s yearbook. That meant committing to the school, and become a member of the YBK staff which later came with the responsibility to attend every school event, and we had to take pictures, records videos and interact with the school community for it to be a successful year in the YBK class. The staff that year…

When I first thought about entering high school, I do not remember how I felt. I do not remember my exact emotions; but what I do remember are my experiences. I remember how lost I felt in the maze of high school hallways. I can recollect how fearful I was of seniors. I can remember the beauty of pretty girls faces, the gossip groups of teenagers, and how cool it seemed. I can remember them laughing, talking, having a good time. I wanted that, because if it 's one thing I noticed. It was that I…

In a way, everyone's high school experience is somewhat of a story. Everyone has a different point of view and nobody really knows everything about any of the other people they choose to surround themselves with. High school isn't all just about getting good grades and learning how to make friends. It's about learning how to survive life in the outside world. High school is a four year long story, so here's mine. Freshman year, I was a pretty outgoing girl. I had a lot of friends, but only few…

“High school isn 't a very important place. When you 're going you think it 's a big deal, but when it 's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they 're beered up.” (Carrie by Stephen King) My high school experience was not the greatest and I can very much relate to that quote from Carrie. My high school career had the potential to have been better, where I could have graduated instead of attaining my GED. There were three main things that interfered with my high school education.…

Throughout my high school years, I have met a plethora of people that have come into my life and then were gone by the next year. Ever since my freshman year of high school, I have always felt like I was struggling to figure out who I am and what my purpose is. It seemed like my life was getting more hazy as high school progressed. My senior year of high school, I found myself skipping class a lot even more so than my friends who were known to skip class a ton. My 2nd semester of my senior year,…

“Every story has an end, but in life every ending is just a new beginning.” -Dakota Fanning This quote reflects my high school experience because I thought that once I finished middle school it would have been the end of my journey. Of course I was wrong, it was only the beginning. I thought it would only be just this one beginning, but I realized that it has been many new beginning as in making new friends, and meeting new and fantastic teachers. As well as being exposed to many amazing…

I believed my life was over and that I would grow to be a lonely homo sapien. Getting taken out of high school is not how I wanted to leave Riverbend high school. I wanted to graduate with my friends I’d known since kindergarten. I thought my hopes and dreams could never be achieved because I wasn’t in regular public high school. I felt like my future plans to go to college and leave Virginia were ruined. Were they really? Or was this just the dramatic thoughts of a typical over exaggerating…

10 words for the past two years. People say the high school experience is the most important experience that you will encounter, I disagree. I believe that life itself is the most important experience and high school is simply another stepping stone towards your final destination. I do believe that high school can really change you in either a positive way or a negative way, it can have a big effect on you whether you want it or not. During high school you discover many different people and…

could remember. The day I was achieving something significant in my family. I thought to myself, I am the first person in my family to graduate high school. The feeling is inconceivable as I hear my name be called, I glanced up and saw my family as they were standing and cheering…