High voltage

The high school I attended was called Eastern Hills High School and was located in Fort Worth Texas. The area primarily contained students of middle and lower class. As far as race, about eighty percent of students were African American, ten percent were Hispanic, five percent were white, and the other five percent consisted of mixed races. Administration at my high school primarily consisted of women as they represented eighty percent of the staff. However, from high school, I also saw that the…

by my own parents, a good friend of ours homeschooled me. Thats when I learned so much. For me the one-on-one experience made so much of a difference. I improved my math from a 3rd and 4th grade level to testing into 9th grade math when I went into high school. One of the memories that I vividly have, is when I was learning my times tables. I would sit down at the octagon glass table next to the fire place. This is were I would do all my school work. I would…

college in the state of Texas, but I thought I would not enjoy living down south. Right around April, I decided to enroll at Purdue as a biochemistry major (chemistry concentration) with the goal of attending Medical School. I enjoyed Chemistry in High school so I thought that I would breeze through it in college. Towards the end of the first semester, I realized that I was in over my head, and I changed my major to biochemistry (biology concentration). It did not take long for me to come to the…

All seniors in this High school rotated between school and work, two weeks at school and two weeks at work to acquire practical hands on training within their major. For example, a Cosmetology student would work two weeks at a hair salon to gain practical experience and go…

to achieve this dream for most people is to attend a college or university right after high school. High schools strongly encourage all students to try and go to a great four year college, but is this absolutely necessary. These days it seems that if one does not attend college and receive a degree, they are not respectable or they are not as intelligent as others. This is not true. Many people who are in high school simply aren’t cut out for such rigorous and so-called “standard” college…

Speaker Alexandra Robbins is a New York Times bestselling author of Pledged and The Overachievers. She’s spent over a decade “examining… various microcosms in U.S schools” and is the 2007 recipient of the Heartsongs award for her contributions to the mental health of children and young adults (Robbins, 6). Robbins immediately establishes credibility by featuring her credentials in her About the Author section and mentioning her experience in U.S schools early on in the book. In The Geeks Shall…

I sit on Erin 's bed next to Petunia the cat. Petunia is probably my favorite Augustine cat although it 's just so hard to pick favorites. She has the cutest orange and black pattern. Not that Charlie and Rosie aren 't cute but they 're both so mean to Petunia, she 's old and weak and her purr is the most adorable noise and she never tries to hurt them but they always attack her. The only sound is the sound of Erin typing on her computer. Our paper is due tomorrow and neither of us have started,…

College Admissions: Beyond Conventional Testing believes that in order for students to be successful in college and in the world they must do more than reach benchmark on a standardized test; they need skills beyond remembering knowledge they learned in high school and analytical reasoning (Sternburg, 2012). Though knowing how to do the algebra or geometry needed to score benchmark on the ACT would be a good thing to know when entering college, knowledge is only part of what it takes to be…

I was born on February 25th 1998 at St Michael 's hospital in Toronto. I grew up in a part of Toronto called Bloor west village where I lived with my parents and my sister Lauren who is three years older than me. I attended Runnymede public school for both junior and senior kindergarten. My interests in my toddler years were T-ball, skiing and going to park with my best friend Carson. I learned to ski at a very young age, I was just 18 months when I first attempted to put on my sister…

potential, individuality, etc. There are preposterous amounts of things to discover in college, but the only way to achieve the opportunity is by staying in school and graduating. There are many numbers of possibilities to learn about yourself in high school, but the thing about college is that you are responsible for yourself and for some the only person you can be dependent on is yourself. Hard work, dedication and perseverance are the three factors that will carry one through schooling,…