fact that, as a high school student, I was always left out of activities because I was different from others since I worked extremely hard on my studies. I pursued my education in a small, public high school nestled in the suburbs, and education wasn’t a top priority among most of my peers. As an inevitable result, no one understood me, and I felt excluded from the rest of my class. When I came here, I expected my social life to be similar to that of my high school experience. I anticipated…
viewpoint validated, as it was very obvious she enjoyed her time at Mitty. Throughout that day, I was greeted by many people, freshmen, and seniors alike, and all were friendly. The positivity just broadened my favourable view of Archbishop Mitty High School. I also know that Mitty can offer me a lot in the athletics department. During the guest program, I had the opportunity to meet the varsity volleyball coach, both as a math teacher and as a coach. At the Open House, I had a chance to meet…
I feel good about school because I have good grades in all my classes. What shaped my high school experience was shaped by my teachers and my friends. My high school experience is good so far because I made friends that are good friends to me and they help me when I need it. Elementary school was good for me because I did not know much English. All my teachers and friends helped me to speak English. When I first came in the class I know some of the words the teacher and the students were…
When I think about all the years I have spent in high school, it brings out all the interesting experience I had over these four years. I definitely had highs and lows here and there. But overall, High school has definitely taught me many things, emotionally and academically, I always wanted to be someone who could excel at everything I tried to aim for. But coming from middle school and knowing nothing about high school, I was little worried about how I was going to do academically. It had…
In my rush to imagine I had totally forgotten my experience in high school and my observations. All of my teachers interacted with each other and it was not strange to see them pop into a…
The high school that I was in gave me an interesting experience. I was able to learn and experience different lessons with in my high school. Three of those life lessons that I went through are when my school was placed on lockdown, another experience is a club that I joined which helped really mature. Finally the other experience I faced in high school was that some of my friends that I had wanted me to join them in some bad situations but I kept myself out of those situations. The first…
Starting college in the fall was a major transition from high school. I was at first nervous and anxious to see if college was anything like Summer Academic Institute for Leaders (S.A.I.L.S). When I go here it was a similar atmosphere. Everyone was friendly and the homework load was not as much. At first, I did not feel at home. I felt as I was in a foreign place like summer camp. I would not see my parents on the daily but have responsibilities I have to uphold. It was hard at first but after a…
One jumping jack, that is all it took to change my entire high school experience. I was in physical education class during the fall of my freshman year when it happened. I lifted my arms up, and when I lowered them I heard a pop, and felt extreme pain in my right shoulder. I went to the school nurse, and they told me that I had dislocated my shoulder. The nurses were not able to put it back in place, and I had to go to Boston Children’s Hospital. There, they struggled, but were eventually able…
High school changes people. They express themselves, become opinionated, and they start to look at the world differently as they experience things they have never encountered before. A wise Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.” This quote is an excellent way to describe my experience in high school. I believe that Holmes’ quote is very accurate. At the beginning of my freshman year my friends and I were very alike; we…
junior year of high school that I was already feeling the pressure heavily on what college I should attend that would guide in the best way for my chosen career. During a break period, my friends and I were walking into a hallway speaking about the colleges we thought about attending when suddenly a student bumps into me, almost knocking me down completely, turned back and said, “Watch it wetback!” Shocked beyond words of expression that I had just encountered my first experience with racism. My…