My Bad Experiences in High School Essay

I have had many life changing experiences but there is one that has impacted me the most. It is my experience with Keratoconus. One day during 2016 I woke up and my vision was on my right eye was covered by a something white and cloudy. It turned out to be a scar in my eye caused by Keratoconus. Keratoconus is an eye disease a person is born with that affects the cornea by making it slope instead of being round, and for the most part a cornea transplant is needed as the disease further…

me. Throughout many years of my life, I believed those values, but never was able to follow those beliefs. I felt I had to lie even though there was no reason to. It seemed clear that any type of lying can never be justified, but yet there remained shades of gray on debating when and how much of the facts can be justified.…

you go to school in your pajamas?”, “How did you make friends?”, “How can you stand having your parents teach you?” These are the questions that plagued the first eighteen years of my life. I don’t like to admit it, but I was homeschooled. Not a modern homeschooler that takes dual-credit or online classes, but an actual homeschooler. What does being homeschooled have to do with my math experiences? The majority, if not all, of my math experience involved my immediate family. Mom, dad, and my…

endurance are the themes in my life, thus far. Some challenges I have faced throughout my life were created by me while others were due to involuntary circumstances. I believe that my background has given me the tools necessary to make rational decisions and persevere through different trials and tribulations, and I believe it all goes back to my parents. My parents have done absolutely everything they could to help me be successful in life. I can recognize this now as an adult with my own…

High School is something else, it really is. If there was one thing I would change it would be that the teachers would get more interactive with the students. Tell them about college, be involved with school activities, join clubs, encourage the students to do better in school. Most of all just be there when needed. I've had so many bad teachers in my high school experience , but the one’s that were always there for me will always be remembered. They were not just any ordinary teachers. These…

Prior to high school, my middle school recommended that I attend “Grant High School”, which was looked down upon by my parents due to its reputation. Grant High School only has a 78% graduation rate. My father had been planning on surprising me with an opportunity of a lifetime and began planning since I was in 7th grade. I left my friends and current life behind to move to a place called Oak Park to attend Oak Park High School, which is ranked in the top 100 public schools in the nation and a…

and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed - Michael Jordan. This quote relates to me because In my years in high school, I have failed over and over, failing every class but I passed all my classes last year. I started off badly as a freshman failing 6 classes because I never did any of my work. Then sophomore year I got my act together join the baseball, so I would have the motivation to do good in school & get the right grades. At the end of the school year I finished with…

"Just try it, hurry up. Don't be scared." These were the exact words that were told to my brother. This made a big impact from then to now. My brother is now addicted to marijuana or also known as 'weed'. I've talked to him numerous times, trying to get him away from it but sadly he isn't strong enough to. I decided to do my reflection paper on my brother's story, how weed as impacted his life using the symbolic perspective. I asked him several questions and this it what he told me. The first…

stories about how I studied English in China and the two years experience that I studied in American high school as an exchange student. I started to study English when I was in the third grade, but I basically knew nothing about it. I slept and talked to my friends through the most of time of English class. When my parents saw my grade reports, they were worried about my English grade. Then I started going to a tutoring center to improve my English. It did not help me a lot because English was…

kids in schools, after hours programs and even in Boys and Girls club. Now based on that previous statement, if organizations are teaming up to enclose the digital gap between some of the less fortunatee, technology couldn’t be that evil as expressed because organizations wouldn’t be involved if putting in computers where damaging the youth. So my question to you: Is technolgy evil or helping children? One of the biggest and fearful issues concerning the internet…