Mardela High School

your desk as you begin to register for classes. Too bad you do not have a professional adviser to help you plan ahead if your first schedule does not work out. After all, you do have to take a bunch bottleneck courses -- you know, the ones that are in high demand and fill up right away. Of course, your top choice schedule ran into trouble because the bottleneck courses you need to graduate are already full. Now you are a whole semester behind, with no one to help you fix it. Maybe next semester…

As for school experiences, there were similarities between education in the United States but there were also a lot of differences I noticed. The first big difference is what they call each level of schooling. Here we call them grades but in Malawi, they call them standards. Standard one through eight make up primary school, the equivalent of elementary and middle school here. They refer to, what we call pre-school, as necessary school and Pempho explained that when families don’t have money to…

I am the eldest of six children, so I witnessed all the sacrifices of my parents for us. My father saved money for our future, he wanted us to go to school because he always says that education is the only treasure he can give for us. I was soon graduating high school at that time, my dad wanted me to go to college. I already looked for school where I can do bachelor of music. Sometimes what you planned can change because life is very unpredictable.…

solve problems are direct results of a population full of educated people. It can also be said that education teaches discipline. The greatest awards in life are derived not from instant gratification but from sustained efforts. For example, a high school graduate may one day tell a story about how he stayed up all night his junior year studying for a math test. The outcome of his dedication was a much earned A. Because this student put in an extensive amount of time and hard work the by-product…

said it best when he stated, “No one should be bound to worship, or to maintain a worship [taxes to an established church] against his own consent" (Karsten). This is why required prayer in public schools is such an argumentative topic in today’s society. In 1962, required prayer was taken out of schools across the United States (Pros and Cons of Prayer). However, individual prayer is still allowed and acceptable, somewhat. Teachers and faculty members may not participate in prayer while in the…

School counselors are responsible for assessing, addressing, and advocating for the academic, career, and personal/social needs of students. Helping students achieve success in each of these areas can be a demanding and complex task. Many students will face barriers that may stifle their ability to achieve along these domains unless school counselors are able to effectively intervene on their behalf. One of the most substantial barriers to student success is the increasing prevalence of…

According to a January 2012 study, approximately 11% of college freshman had declared a major within the fields of agriculture and biological sciences, based on statistics presented by the National Science Foundation, just in time for the predicted need for agriculture productivity to rise by almost 70% to continue to feed our world’s growing population by 2050. Now, you may think these statistics may be boring or mundane, but I can promise you, the field of agriculture is not! Today it…

Setting goals for the future is important to me, because it gives me motivation to meet that point when it comes time. To start with, the first goal I have for my future is to graduate from Verdigre High School in the spring of 2016. This mark is almost met, but still seems far away. It will always be a destination of mine, until it is reached. Secondly, the next goal of mine is to attend a college in Nebraska, to become a Physical Therapist Assistant. I will do this by attending a Community…

in educational institutions. This title came during a time of revolution, and society fighting for equality in all aspects of life. At this time in society, women were consistently given unequal opportunities in education, starting from primary school. The title was created to provide opportunities, in an attempt to decrease an advantage one sex held over the other. The title was approached cautiously to help prevent alienation of the students, and created in a manner to promote growth and…

The third part of my autoethnography is about my academic work after graduating high school, and the plans I have for the future. I was 18 when I was at my last year of high school. I did not have too many friends in high school, as I like to keep to myself. Even though I did not have too many friends I still did not study much since the classes seemed easy to me and I thought that passing a class was enough, so I did not focus on my GPA. As the education system Turkey requires, I had to take…