Personal Narrative Essay Examples High School

I had just entered my junior year in high school and was back to playing football, my grades were good so far and my A.D.D. medication was helping me a lot. Zach and I had just arrived at the union school for a junior varsity game against Oceanside high school, we geared up and got ready for the game. I started the game at quarterback and the game wasn't going well for us, which didn't come as a surprise because jv games are never enjoyable. I took the snap and rolled out to the…

The lights. The noise. The people. Who doesn’t love a classic high school football game? At one particular game, the first home football game of my junior year, my friends and I were all ecstatic to be first-time upperclassmen super fans at the “hawaiian-extravaganza” event. Having arrived an hour early, we wrestled our way into second row seats as everyone else filled in behind us. The sun began to descend as the energy continued to climb, bringing everyone to their feet by the start of the…

In high school, I just lived in the moment enjoying not having responsibilities and living care free. To be honest I was not taught the essential things to becoming an adult and surviving on my own. It all started with my parents and the way I was raised. I am the baby of five kids and my mom was 39 when she became pregnant with me, so you could say I was the uh-oh baby. With me being such a late comer and all my older siblings in high school when I was born they took on a lot of the…

Throughout my high school career I have always managed to maintain a balanced schedule between academics, athletics and after school activities from participating in a wide variety of sports and clubs including: soccer, track, volleyball, tennis, theater, forensics, solo ensemble, poetry club and student ambassador club. Through my experiences from these organizations I have realized I have been able to become a better student athlete, public speaker, and classmate among my friends, teachers and…

Throughout my high school career, I was involved in multiple extracurricular activities. I attended Greenville Senior High Academy of Law, Finance, and Business where I was a law magnet student. All four years I was a part of the Beta Club and the National Honor Society. My sophomore year I was a member of the golf team. Being that my father died of Cancer when I was six, I was a member of the Relay for Life committee. My freshman to junior year, I was apart of my school’s Navy Junior Reserve…

When I first started high school, I truly thought that it would be a fresh start. My previous life in school surely wasn’t the easiest thing in the entire world. Junior High had just been one level of Hell after another. The people I was surrounded by weren’t the nicest. I quickly learned that they would take the side of whoever was stronger, so not me. This created many problems in my life, but the biggest one was named Ashley. Anyways, back to my freshman year of high school. I walk in the…

Junior year of high school is a tough one. You’re still trying to find yourself, yet you load up on courses and push to get straight A’s to impress those colleges out there. You begin to craft an application essay, learn more about each school, and narrow it down to a few choices so you can go visit them come spring time. Nope, that wasn’t me. I couldn’t find myself, and I was still in the early stages of planning out what I really wanted to do with my life. Didn’t care too much for school…

siblings. I currently live with my dad, step-mom, little brother, and step-brother. I lived with my mom and older brother for most of my childhood and moved a lot around the country during elementary school. I missed a lot of school as a child. I can barely remember the names of about half of the schools I’ve went to. My mom was a single parent for most of the time, yes it was hard for her, but she never gave up on me or herself. She worked hard to provide me with most of what I needed for…

Zackary Sawyer Mrs. Crooks ERWC, Period 2 26 September 2016 The Journey: High school to College College is something that everyone wants or wishes to attend but most do not have the willpower to start or finish the journey. Most all seniors in high school say they want to attend college, but in reality only 65.9 percent of seniors actually go to college. I want to be a part of that percentage for many reasons: One, college is a fun and amazing experience that everyone should get the chance to…

fifth grade in my elementary school, my friend and I decided to break the rules. Whenever I think back to this event I realize how foolish I was when I was eleven years old. I had just moved to San Diego, so this was my first year at this new school. It didn’t take long before I made new friends. But once I had my “friend group” I would follow them around during the breaks. They had been at this school since kindergarten and they knew all the secrets, and rumors of this school. They would tell…