High jump

A week of vacation involved sleeping late, a boat load of candy, and spending time with family and friends. Other than the Reese's cup in my lunch box, the respite was over, because this was the first day back from spring break. The reality of high school came crashing in again. Stella and her evil minions approached me as I slammed my locker shut. “Hey Emily, I think you should know something,” Stella snapped. “What is it?” I questioned bracing myself for what was about to happen, because…

Dear Stone Ridge Upper School faculty and staff, do students really need final exams? Why should students be put through the agony of having to study hours on end? Students already have enough tests throughout the year that final exams are not really needed. Both students and teachers would benefit from not having finals. Teahcers would not have to grade any more tests, and students would not have to study for any more tests. It is a win-win situation. Any student would agree that teachers give…

highest thrill along with feeling very low. It was my freshman year of high school and me and my best friend Mike were ecstatic to try out for the baseball team at Forrest High School (now Westside High). We had been playing baseball together since we were kids and our goal was to be the next pair of great ballplayers to come through Forrest. We had been working for that moment all our lives and it was time for us to finally play high school baseball. While in class the principal came on the…

Signing a contract with the federal government can be the most beneficial thing you can ever do, in terms of a career or even just doing something with your life after high school. The military in particular is one path that many young people choose to look at when thinking about their future, because of the many benefits it provides. These benefits range from pay, to housing, and all the way to college tuition after your service is complete. When looking at my college tuition and considering…

I spent some time looking at careers and i found a couple that interested me one of the carriers was to become a firefighter. my family in the past have all been firefighters like my grandpa and great grandpa. and a lot of my family wants the generation of firefighters to go on so because of this I feel like firefighting would be a good choice. I also like doing physical work and I am very athletic and healthy two things you need to be a good firefighter. Another career that has interested me is…

head my Senior year. Earlier this year, I successfully passed through one milestone in my life: Graduate High School. Don’t get me wrong, high school was a breeze for me. I didn’t struggle terribly. I was ranked in the Top 10 students in my class, helped take my softball team to State two years in a row, and got along well with all my classmates and teachers. One thing I didn’t do in high school that was different than all of my peers was work on college and scholarships. The idea of college…

Paige Bloskas WRIT 101-Section 112 Dr. Kerstin Rudolph Is Cheer a Sport? Many people today debate wether cheer is a sport or not. Some people stereotype a cheerleader as merely being a woman standing on the sidelines of games looking perfect, shaking their pom poms, holding signs and yelling chants for football players. However, there is more to cheer than just that. Even if girls standing on sidelines cheering at football games is not a sport, there is also a competitive side of cheer. This…

Early In the movie, She’s the Man, a soccer coach says, “You're all excellent players. But girls aren't as fast as boys. - Right. - What? - Or as strong. Or as athletic” (Fickman 2006). In my opinion, sports should be co-ed, but there are some exceptions. I believe that what the coach of the guy’s soccer team is saying is inequitable. I have always been involved in a sports team during my life through soccer, gymnastics, and track. I believe that girls are just as fast and as strong as…

he wants to finish this quarter strong but ultimately, he wants to start his own business in advertisement marketing. This long-term goal was the theme of our twenty-five-minute conversation. John’s drive for business comes from watching his father jump from different pyramid-scheme businesses. He saw how his dad never gave up on his dreams and was always finding ways to be creative. John mentioned his father always supported him whenever he wanted to pick up new hobbies. For example, around the…

High school. There are plenty of memories that come to mind when I think back on my high school years and how fun, boring, and sometimes mind boggling it was. I learned so much in these quick yet repetitive 4 years out of my life. I made friends, fell in love, laughed, cried, and did some of the most boring work of my life—But, I have plenty more to share. I felt as though my high school experience wasn’t really as dreadful and hard as I thought it would be. It was more like come to school and…