Missouri. My entire high school career has been involved with the arts. My interest range from theater, music, dance and other aspects of the arts. In high school I have been involved in: drama team, musicals, choir, show choir, debate, A+ program, and Sophomore tutoring, just to name a few. The productions that I have been apart of include: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Guys and Dolls, Check Please, Canned Hamlet, Big Fish, and and Improv Show at Central High School. I…
came from Africa, and used to be home schooled. Her first day in North Shore High School started bad, because she had difficulty making friends. The first people she meets are Janice and Damian. Janice, and Damian introduce the whole school to Cady including a group of girls that are known as the plastics. The plastics are a group of girls who are well known, and they like to express negatively opinions about everyone in school, and they write it down in a book which belongs to Regina George the…
In the past I have had many experiences involving the concept of group think. During my sophomore year of college, I used to attend a lot of parties. Yet, one night I made a decision that could have greatly caused a negative impact in my life. I was in an environment surrounded by a massive cause of concern. My best friend and I had gone to this party with close friends that was thrown far out in Arizona in comparison to what we were used to. To say the least, the party was one of the best…
Our high school has a reputation of being academic driven, being the top school in our district our students are often under a lot of pressure to do well. They derived a mindset that focused on always receiving a high grade and not enjoying high school for what it is.This toxic mentality can only become detrimental to a student’s psychological health, causing breakdowns and unwanted stress. To alleviate this I joined the Associated Student Body for my high school, I wanted to break school…
pretty stellar as well. Before I knew it, the night had come. On Wednesday, September 23rd, my senior class voted for four homecoming princesses to represent during the homecoming game scheduled for Friday, October 9th. After waiting the whole school day for the results, the long-lived anticipation was finally over with, Mrs. Walter’s was…
blinders, I see a world full of opportunity and choices waiting outside of my high school’s walls. I, along with my other classmates, am overwhelmed with new choices and obligations. One of the major struggles seniors face is preparing for college. Yet, once broken down, preparing for college becomes a piece of cake—literally. Before placed in an oven of life, several vital ingredients need to be combined. High schools, taking standardized tests, choosing careers, filling out college…
had just won back-to-back state championships. Throughout middle school, I had to overcome adversity associated with being a “science nerd.” When people started to discover my academic aptitude, I was labeled a “nerd” who couldn’t be athletic. I wasn’t about to let this stereotype define me, so I strove to invalidate it. Since I joined volleyball two years after most of my peers, I was put on the “B-team” throughout junior high. Regardless, I began to work diligently and spent additional…
people find high school a place of discovery. Some discover their place early, and some late, but almost all do eventually find their way; find their place. Middle and high school can be a very confusing place to be, with so many possible careers to choose from it seems almost impossible to do so and yet we still do. We spend so much time searching for the answer of what to do to be successful in life, that we loose track of what to do now; what to do to maximize our time in high school.…
What Happened When I Came Back To School? How would you feel about going back to high school if you decided not to go to school for one year? This was me back in my sophomore year of high school. After one year of not going to school I decided to go to Haysville High School to finish out my high school career. I only expected to barely get by in school but there are four things that this school has made me aware of or taught me. The first thing being that it taught me that I can do all the…
That’s Jr. High for you in a nutshell. For the majority of people, Jr. High is horrible and almost everyone agrees that Jr. High is not the most extraordinary three years of their life. However, they all have survived it. As traumatic as people may thing Jr. High is, that doesn’t mean that it has to be terrible for everyone. To survive Jr. High, you will need to have a strong academic strategy, a well thought out procedure for success, and a guide for the social aspects. Jr. High is vastly…