Gap year

As a new grade nine at Brentwood, bright eyed and bushy tailed, I viewed my seniors in the highest of regard, for they could do no wrong. For all that I knew, they didn’t party, do drugs or get into any means of trouble. I remember the shock of finding out that my snowball date, an exceptional rugby player, polite young man, and not to mention a handsome one at that, was an avid cocaine user. How could someone like that, who went to a school such as Brentwood, do that? It was then that my veil…

how to write research papers. Computer hardware engineers need writing and reading skills in order to be able to write function and read them. They also need math skill to calculate functions. 9- 12th grade helped me out. Taking a math class every year. Learning how to divide, multiple, and figure out measuring calculations. My sponsors have been all of my teachers. Each one had a mission to take me from only knowing how to write my name to writing summary’s from different…

I have been conforming towards other people since the day I understood the concepts of how to be your own person; in other words, having your own style. I have two older siblings; a brother and a sister, and my sister is only a year older than I am. This tempted me to want to be just like her, which she did not enjoy as much as I did. I would try to be friends with her friends and of course at younger ages, we did not get along, so she would tend to push me out of her life. This…

I guess I forgot to take into consideration how crazy competitive I was when I wrote that. When I reached ninth grade, I struggled badly academically. My First semester I ended up with a low GPA, for what I was used to having. Fortunately, the next year I figured I out, for the next four semesters I had straight A’s. In ninth grade I was persuaded into going out for football. I was down to 200 pounds as my pill was helping me maintain my disease. I enjoyed football, and was fairly successful,…

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three sub ideas for each main idea. You would then turn the three main ideas into paragraphs and use the sub ideas to guild each paragraph. Finally, you would write a conclusion to reflect on the three main ideas. Another big change in my ninth grade year was I started to get over my fear of talking in front of a class; I feel like this was a result of my increased confidence in my writing. Even though I had made great improvements in my writing, I still struggled with spelling. I felt like…

Education, a system used to conceive and better nations; however, America is starting to falter but North Carolina has become a cesspool of ignorance. Students today are lazy, apathetic, undisciplined, thuggish, and dedicated to nothing but selfish goals. On the contrary students themselves are not only to blame, the education system itself is an affront to the American society not just North Carolinas but the nations education system. Todays education system is based off the industrial…

progress through each year we begin to use comparison to quantify our success.…

A single year may not seem like a long time, or that much can change in that short amount of time, but students can change drastically in just a year. I have seen a lot of growth in myself throughout the year, and am pleased with how I have grown. At the beginning of the year, I was quite shy and did not like speaking in front of groups. This impacted my presentation skills as I was unable to speak clearly and with good emotion. Additionally, I have seen myself become better at working with…

In previous years of school I have had many different experiences through extracurricular activities, having different teachers with different styles of teaching, and being in a school environment which forced me to learn things not only academically but learning about social life, things about myself, and what I need to work on to succeed in the future. In 2012 I started sixth grade at Eisenhower Middle School. I was excited to be out of Elementary school because I wanted a more advanced…