High-yielding variety

Like any college student, there are phases where I question what I’m doing with my life, but I remind myself that I have this innate writing talent and as cliché as it sounds, it will get me through those rough patches. I graduated high school as the editor-in-chief of my school paper, which made me confident about continuing writing in college. But during my first year at Ramapo, I only wrote once for the school newspaper and that article concerned overcoming challenges of group…

The world outside of northern Michigan is competitive, and I’m supposed to join it readily. By the end of high school I just want to still be a person that smiles at others in the hallway, and I want those smiles to be real. That’s really the only personal goal. Oh! I also want to give a commencement speech at graduation, I already have it half written. Next…

I am very thankful for taking this course as I feel I have vastly improved in multiple areas of my communication. I had never taken a course that involved writing a paper and then presenting a speech on it to the class. It was either one or the other, not both. That is what intrigued me to take this course before the semester started. For myself great strides were made in my ability to convince readers through the toulmin model, learned in this course. Help was received along the way…

four years. I would say that my transition to college was a big life changer. In high school I would wait until the last moment to do any kind of work. I always passed, but when I came into college I learned that I could not procrastinate and expect the best grade for waiting until the last minute to do anything. For me it was hard and I did not think that I was not meant for college. Transitioning straight out of high school to college was one of the most hardest things for me to…

A Lesson Learned My senior year was a complete disaster. I never took anything serious, and I always waited till the last minute to do everything. All throughout my senior year teachers told me I needed to push myself to achieve a higher grade although my stubborn self never listened. I can remember I always was a student who fell under the c to a d range in my grades with homework and tests, and my teachers always told me I could do better. It was not till one day that was towards the last…

an A throughout the rest of the semester, because my grades are based on participation in activities and assignments. In both of my Biology class and General Chemistry I have maintained a low B. For University 100 and Philosophy 112 I have kept a high A. For my Biology 160 class I have not worked on assignments, like homework. I usually work on that’s class homework last so by the time I start I am already tired. For the rest of this…

I took a shot. The ball made beautiful arch and went into the basket. I yelled “Yeah! I made it.” Shugo and Takumi came to me, and we high-fived. It was just an ordinary shot, however I was so happy that I made the shot. This was the moment that I determined to play basketball. I immediately joined the basketball team in my school. In the team, I was the worst player, and I knew that…

His class color was orange, and since they cycle around, that was to be mine. Perfect, I thought, I can keep being him. I was just as smart as Avery. He made good grades his whole life, so I of course had to. My brother went out for tennis in high school, so when I became a freshman, I tried out. I made the team and the comparisons to Avery followed soon after. How we setup to hit the same, how we served the same, and even how we ran the same. My coach, Stockwell, started saying I was better…

the Rolling Stones were on a world tour, and perhaps most important of all, the Vietnam War was being heavily protested throughout the country. These protests were not limited to just crowds however; it slithered all the way down to a small group of high school students. These students had unknowingly started a case that would end up making a huge impact on how the public school system may limit a student’s freedom of expression. Starting at the beginning, students John Tinker and Christopher…

The state that I was born in has established a process to determine the level of knowledge gained during a school year. The Oklahoma Board of Education has a requirement that every student take standardized tests at the end of each school year. These sets of tests are commonly called “EOI.” EOI stands for End of Instruction test that are supposed to determine the level of knowledge gain on the corresponding academic level on a yearly basis. Also the test is a means for the state to…