My Bad Experiences in High School Essay

Personality can be defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary as a set of emotional qualities or ways of behaving that make a person different from the next. This may seem like the easiest way to describe personality but it is definitely more than that. Psychologists use four main perspectives for evaluating personality: humanistic perspective, social cognitive perspective, trait perspective, and lastly psychodynamic perspective. I personally feel like there is a lot that goes into a personality than…

I was wrapping up my junior year of high school and began looking at schools to start my undergraduate career. My sister was accepted into Depaul University. As we prepared for the eventful summer ahead, I was excited for what was in store. Towards the summer’s end, my sister began experiencing migraines a month before she was scheduled to start. For three days she experienced constant headaches and worsening balance issues to the point where she could not stand. Finally, an MRI was done and…

that this essay was relevant to my own experience in a way. The author explains how she always obeys the law, never does drugs, and does not cause trouble. However, because of her “friends”, she was caught in a bad situation involving the police. Just like the author, I have never done drugs and I am always obedient to the law. Also like the author, I have been caught in tough situations involving the law, due to the actions of my friends. However, my experiences do not measure up to the…

My education has been a large component of my life from a very young age. Through the many years of my schooling, there have been many ups and downs that have shaped and molded me into the student that I am today. After reading “The School of Failure”, I realize that many of the struggles that have been accompanied with my educational history are more common than I previously had thought. I have also found that within “The School of Failure”, there is a common issue with the lack of…

Summer time is a time when you have fun with your family and friends. There’s always something fun going on with my Church in the summer time. At my church we have something called Gospel Communities. Gospel Communities are cool, we hang out , eat and conversations about God and how we can connect them with Jesus. Being apart of Gospel Communities have really made an impact on my summer because I learn a lot from them and it is also a way to get people together for a good event.…

It wasn’t until I was entering my freshman year of high school that a challenge became almost immediately life changing. Feeling as though I was climbing a mountain; not knowing if I was going to successfully make it to the top. Feeling like I was crossing a road; unknowing of what was going to be on the other side. Never had anything been so scary or so difficult to execute. I walked in to the school. Frightened and hesitant. There were hundreds of people, standing around and talking like a…

of my entire life. First of all it was the year I graduated high school. Nonetheless as a senior in high school all you want is for it to be over. My last few months as a senior were tough for me. Some how I realize I did not want to interact with anyone. My anti social ways led me to not attend my senior prom. I regret! As the summer took off, as a normal newly high school graduate you’ll expect me to be out enjoying my summer with friends getting wasted, I mean that usually what high school…

The Struggles I Faced on my Journey to Literacy At a young age my journey to literacy began. I loved books and story time, especially when my mom would read my favorite bedtime stories like “Green Eggs and Ham” and “Little Red Riding Hood.” I always loved for people to read me stories, but hated to read to others. It was hard for me to pronounce words and it was more difficult for me to understand the words I was reading. All that changed after the bad experiences I faced and the help I…

the small town of Barbourville, Kentucky to attend Union College. My first year of college I attended Broward College in South Florida. My sophomore year I went to Frederick Community College in Frederick, Maryland. Before I attended Union College I was attending two year community colleges so the whole four year school difference really was “different”. There are many things that I didn’t get to experience at the two year schools I attended that I have got to here. One thing that is very…

When I first began my college search my freshman year of high school I knew exactly where I wanted to go; Purdue University. There was not the smallest shadow of doubt in my mind that I would one day be a Boilermaker. By the end of my freshman year of high school I had visited the campus multiple times and had stayed one week for a 4H conference and another week for Purdue’s swim camp. I was aware of Purdue’s well-known veterinary medicine and engineering programs. I figured since I wasn’t very…