Mentor High School

I spent 3rd and 4th grade in Mamaroneck Avenue School before moving to another school district. My previous teacher, Ms. Formoso, decided that I no longer needed ESL. Third grade was my first year immersed in a monolingual classroom. I remember learning various things from my third grade teacher, Ms. Levine. I learned…

Taking multiple advanced courses served as a test to see how I would manage my time and to see if my work quality would be enhanced. I have often stuggled to do assignments ahead of time, and instead tended to procrastinate. However, I feel as if this school year, I have been more responsible in the way that I study for exams, and give back to my community. I have learned that in order to become a responsible individual, you need to know your…

allowing me the opportunity to explain my circumstances. Throughout my first quarter, I admit that I was having difficulty adjusting to the new life that I had at college. I decided to move out of state because, throughout my last two years of high school I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety induced panic attacks caused by problems I was having with my friends and at home. It was a…

My dad was my high school basketball coach, and both my parents instilled a sense of hard work, humility, and the value of a good education.” The way she talked about her parents proves they have been her inspiration. Stacy never considered Notre Dame, her plan was to work…

what life continuously presents, and by the individuals that I have seen benefit from this practice. Counseling does not only impact the recipient of the process, but the advisor as well. I had this realization while working one on one with a high school student who now understands his…

You never truly know when the last time for you to do something, until it happens. This is the story of how I lost it all, in a sports sense. It is a story of how all the coaches, my parents and I all finally came together to face a huge obstacle that occurred. It was the Conference Track Meet in Arlington, Nebraska in Mid-April. So, as you can guess it was chilly and a little bit rainy. I had a pretty packed day ahead of me. I suppose, to be the top competitor that year in track. I had placed…

college administrators and making sure all of the finishing touches were followed through with (personally digging up holes for the new volleyball lines and piecing together the furniture that was ordered). This project took away crucial time away from school, football and my friends. If I had committed myself to working with my Junior Class Committee, I would have accomplished this goal at a much faster rate, with more sleep and more time for my other…

During the last 15 weeks, college has taken me on a roller coaster of emotions. I have experienced happiness. I have experienced stress. I have experienced sadness. I have felt hopeless, but also invincible, all while trying to fake that I know exactly what I am doing and everything is okay. If on move-in day someone had told me I would barely spend anytime time in my dorm room with the gray walls and ugly, patterned carpet, I would not have believed them. Despite it not being the coziest or…

The beginning of my Freshmen year, first semester I was ready to take on the world. Through academics, sports, networking meeting new people, enjoying and giving my greatest effort towards my St. John’s experience. Having goals to meet, walking around with the utmost confidence in everything I did in life. I felt as no one could touch me in a way, I had no worries in life and was truly excitedly impatient about my future. Then “it” happened, “it” changed my whole mindset on the future. It…

1998, is the youngest child in a family of 3, born in McAllen, Texas and by only 3 weeks of age he was taken back to Reynosa, Mexico where all his family resided. He started his education in Mexico at only 2 years and was able to graduate from high school at the age of 17. Oscar grew up with his grandmother since he was 2 due to his parent’s separation, he then moved to his mom’s house for about a year and a half before going to his dad’s house for less than a year. At the age of 12 he went back…