High School Experience Essay

One of the toughest jobs I have had to do is maintain a job while keeping good grades in high school. My whole life I have had a grade point average of 3.7. My plans for this school year is to keep my job, while maintaining my grade point average . Therefore having a job as a teen may be hard, but it just means I have gone to work harder to reach my goals in life. During my time working and going to school has been tough, but working has taught me very valuable lessons, to never give up on…

face life’s obstacles is through your own faults. Experience, maturity, and success are based on teaching oneself from one’s experience. The valuable part is the summary that we should learn from our fails. Moreover, to get strength and let that incident affects us in a positive way in order to learn the key of success. Failure can affect people emotionally or materially. I moved to Michigan in summer 2013. In fall 2013, I went to Crestwood High School for my senior year, and I had to take an…

Out of the many lessons I learned in this course I enjoyed learning the aims of writing, expressive aim, referential aim, persuasive aim, and literary aim. Although my writing experience in the military was writing papers in referential aim and persuasive aim, the reason I choose the three essays below is because they were written in expressive aim. While I was making corrections and editing these three essays, I noticed that there was one common mistake not only in these three essays, but in…

College Transition Planning for Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder Transition planning has proven effective, and is currently a widely used tool for adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorder as they prepare for life after high school, with nearly 85% of students having some sort of transition plan (Hendricks & Wehman, 2009). Transition planning typically involves the student, teachers, and parents or guardians and focus on the setting of goals related to the…

adapting into a society full of new technology. New innovations have changed the way we view or do something on a daily basis. In school education, we rely on teachers to care for the student’s achievements and losses. If we were to say that a Middle School in the Antelope Valley had accessibility to a free high-end tablet for eighth graders to use for the whole school year, the results in their education accomplishments should become an advantage in the education. Parents want the best for…

entitled Let Teenagers Try Adulthood, Botstein proposes, “the American high school is obsolete and should be abolished” (153). This provocative nature of Botstein’s writing leads to polarized views of the education system that could ultimately result in alienation of individuals or groups with more moderate views. That is not to say Botstein lacks valid points. Though some of Leon Botstein’s arguments for reform…

mainly built around experience the more experience an individual has the more opportunity an individual will have. The three main levels of basketball coaching are high school, college and NBA these three levels are similar but have some differences. I will go into details about each of these levels and give general information of them. The high school/middle school level of coaching is the first step of achieving the other two steps of coaching. The high school/middle school level of…

New Experience The senior interview was a unique and interesting experience. I have never done anything like it before. It was interesting seeing a senior’s (George’s) perspective. Due to this interview, how to succeed in high school was reiterated, I learned more about myself, and learned more about the interview process. I am now able to reflect on this encounter. Overall, it was a fascinating experience to discuss with a senior and learn about their high school career. I expected…

of my most important life goals are to be a programmer and start my own company and to be leader at my mosque. I have a lot of background experience that will be help me in my first goal. Since freshman year, I began to learn more about computers than just surfing the internet. I started learning to code on websites such as codeacademy.com. At my old school, where I studied for 9th and 10th grade, a computer science course was available. I took the class in 10th grade but our teacher caught a…

Throughout my high school career, an important experience for me has been being the president of the Young Environmentalist Society, Y.E.S. Club, at my school. My Junior year I heard about the club, but it was inactive around the school. Being a person passionate about the environment, it was important for me to get the club more involved and to make the school more environmentally aware. My interest in the environment led me to take the leadership role in the club of being president; I started…