My Bad Experiences in High School Essay

athletic person is what makes a successful high school student. Throughout my four years of high school, that is what I became. Being a student-athlete and doing volunteer work has taught me what it takes to be a leader. All of these qualities add up to a great future for me. My schoolwork has always been important to me. I love to tackle challenging work because I learn more. I am the salutatorian of my class. My goal was never to be one of the topped ranked in my class, but to understand what…

them being good or bad. I have had many including the good and bad. But I’m going to share with you the greatest most bittersweet journey I have ever experienced, and that is becoming a young mother. It’s an experience well worth the good the bad and the ugly. Becoming a mother is a journey no one but a mother could understand. To begin with I was 18 when I became pregnant. Something I could not imagine I would have never believed, I was in my last year of trying to finish school. Once I found…

was a very interesting childhood for me. My parents raised all four of us and it could not have been an easy task. We were all very close in age and became the best of friends. Through the good times and bad we always stuck together. Even in school we saw each other, had the same classes, teachers, and friends. However our lives are so much different from each other 's. Yes, we all were homeschooled and yes, we all have the same family, house, and schools. Even with these similarities, our lives…

My Inspiring Song Music. The one aspect of life that can change my bad mood into a good one. The one thing that can make my world stop in from spinning out of control when stress is trying to take over. The one simple song can bring back a million memories of a lifetime within a few seconds. Music helps many people overcome the challenges they face whether they are big or small encounters. There have been many songs that have impacted my life; these songs vary from the rap songs my friends and…

varies for everyone. Throughout the following two years, the concept of Timshel will be present in my academic and social lives, where I’ll need to make choices which will either allow me to approach or deviate from the pursuit of my goals, and will influence…

experiencing good and bad situations. You can’t live life without having the knowledge of knowing what you have learned. I can tell of three times I’ve had profound learning experiences. One profound experience happened in fifth grade. Thursday or Friday afternoon, it was science class. The other students and I are taking a test; I noticed the kid sitting next to me was looking over my shoulder and taking my answers. I quietly leaned over and whispered for him to stop, and I covered my…

First Day of School in America I face challenges everyday in my life. My family and I moved from Cuba in July 2011, two weeks before I was supposed to start High School. We moved here because of my dad’s work, he is a pediatrician and he had better opportunities here. My mom wasn’t sure about moving here, she didn’t want to leave our country, our house and her parents, and I just didn’t care about it, since I was too little to think that going to another country was going to make a really big…

1997 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina to Belinda Bogle and Sean Anderson. My mother, Belinda, is a parent educator who has worked hard to provide for me my entire life. She has always been a woman to put others before herself, even when it was difficult, and that is a quality I admire. My father, Sean, is a financial manager at a Ford dealership and has worked harder than any person I have ever met. We moved to Gastonia in 2000 and my parents were divorced by 2001. Both were remarried within a…

In my observations and thoughts of reading the “Against School” by John Taylor Gatto, I felt that the author was showing his experiences and raw opinions about education. I was so befuddled and surprised by how the author chose to use the word confusion to describe one of many ways of educating his students in the beginning of the text. I can relate to this because of my bad experience in Algebra II. For example, when I was a junior in high school, I had a tremendously dreadful Algebra II…

High School It is said that high school is some of the best years of your life. You’re going into a new place with new faces and new opportunities, one does not know what to expect. I know I was terrified going into high school for the first time, but who isn’t? Each year brought new challenges and a new routine to get use to. Everyone has had a different and unique experience of high school, beyond the stereotypes. For me, high school was a place where I could “spread my wings” and try new…