High School Life Essay

It's just cruel. I was becoming more and more withdrawn, spending time in teachers’ rooms or in the toilet. I never ate at school either, god forbid the reactions or comments I would get. I never made any friends, nor did I want to. I really think it was for the best, no matter how much it pained me to be so alone. I spent the first six years of my life alone, hating who I once thought I was, not believing a word my parents said when they complimented me. I suppose as time went on I started…

started high school I had thought I was pretty smart. I was a freshmen in Algebra II and in other honors classes on top of that. I set a goal my first year of high school to be in the top ten percent of my graduating class. I thought I could accomplish everything, I thought I was on top of the world, I thought that I was one of those smart kids at school, and I thought I would have it easy in high school. Needless to say I could not accomplish everything, I was not what I thought I was, and high…

Life is a series of constant challenges that one must overcome to persevere. Throughout my life I have faced various challenges but, until my sophomore year in high school I don’t believe I truly understood what a true challenge was. One day my life took a dramatic turn. At the time I failed to see how much my life would truly be affected in all the days to come. I was a relatively healthy teenager when everything began to change. In the beginning of 2013 I began tenth grade, just as any…

the religious background, a story might even be offensive in some ways. Every person has their own opinion about reading in general. The four selections, “Life after High School”, “A Rose for Emily”, “A Jury of Her Peers”, and “Bartleby the Scrivener”, all have different reason for being included in my text book. The story “Life after High School” by Joyce Oates was very interesting. The plot structure of this story is a good example of how complex a plot can be. In the beginning, the story is…

When I Was in high school, our school offered a scholarship to seniors that are going to graduate, and we will get around $1,500 if we win it. The scholarship’s named was Alumni Scholarship and it was given out to students who had G.P.A of 3.5 or higher. For that scholarship, we had to write a what getting this scholarship mean to us and what we did during high school. The deadline date was on March 23, and we had to turn it in before 3 p.m. Even though I turned it exactly on 3 p.m, I didn’t get…

Twenty six years ago we were riding in the back of my parent’s truck, back then we didn’t have to wear seat belts and we could stretch out in the back. It was me and my twin sister with our best friend Holly, and she was sharing with us about Jesus. I don’t remember a lot about the conversation since I was only 11 years old, but I do remember like it was yesterday that my sister and I decided to ask Jesus into our hearts for the first time. From that day forward I have learned to walk daily with…

found something that I enjoyed that she had done in that we both could talk about our accomplishments. The activity that I found was FFA she had been an officer her junior and her senior year of high school. I have tried my best to match her in my involvement of the FFA. The FFA has been apart of my life since I was in the seventh grade. I remember helping out at Old Macs durning the Sioux Empire Fair. Because my sister was an officer she had to find workers. Well me being her kid sister that…

When starting high school there were many unknowns, due to the fact my parents were immigrants and did not know about the education system. Creating my high school schedule, I would have to ask my friends and they would help me based on what their siblings had done. I did not always feel confident relying on my friend’s siblings, so during high school, I researched to understand my opportunities. It was confusing to hear my friends say “my mom is making me take this class, “because I never had…

All throughout my life I've been told high school is were you start to find yourself. I never thought I would find myself in a different high school half way through my short high school career. Going into freshman year at Weymouth high school everything seemed like it was going to go as planned. Everything I imagined high school would be like. I took that for granted. I slacked off in school, I took advantage of the freedom I was given and did the bare minimum so I could pass. Sophomore year…

A growing problem in high schools today is there is not enough preparation for seniors to enter college with confidence. Many administrators overlook this problem because once the students graduate, they are not the problem of the school anymore. This issue should be brought to the high school senior’s attention before they experience serious issues in college and make costly mistakes. That is why students should be taught how to study correctly and get real world experience before graduating.…