My First Day at High School Essay

had to choose between to excellent schools? I have to because now I am going to high school. I am comparing and contrasting the Stem high school and Carolina Day School. Stem and CDS are both good school, but they have their differences like Stem is free, CDS has a huge tuition. Also Stem is a lottery and CDS I can get into because it go there, and Stem has the same schedule each day until the end of the semester and CDS has a different schedule each day. The first difference I am going to…

individual’s own oppression? To have my own beliefs finally verified, believing that school tracking was, in the words of my younger self: “evil”, causes a flood of feelings to barge in. I become inspired; inspired to create change for those students I have time to help. I become frustrated: frustrated with myself because I couldn’t put the pieces together earlier; frustrated that I couldn’t explain why…

always dreamed of playing softball in college. I worked hard every day pitching 200 balls a day in order to earn my spot as a pitcher. I was raised on that field. In fact, my mother was pregnant with me and was coaching my brothers on the same exact field. I started out playing baseball due to the fact that Overton Little League did not have a softball association. I enjoyed playing baseball with all the guys, who later became some of my best friends, but I really wanted to play softball.…

High School in a Nutshell People say high school is about getting a good education and getting into a good college. Well, this is true and people should care about education, but to me, high school is about making memories that will last a lifetime. High school is also about figuring out who matters, who did matter, and also who will never matter. The life of the typical high student is characterized by time spent studying, attending class, and socializing with peers. My grades in high…

way in my short 22 years of life for someone whose life has not changed extremely drastically in any sense. For the very first half of my life, everything was very steady. That was until I went into high school where my life changed in many different ways because I decided to go through different paths that I would never have expected to turn on to. Through self-reflection now I am almost glad that they occurred despite the difficulties that came along with it. While I was growing up my parents…

In 2013, my family decided to come to the United States, I thought life in here like paradise. However, new language, strange weather, and no friends have made me want to give up. My first day in the U.S, I seemed dumb and deaf. At school, a teacher asked me "How are you?", I replied "I'm 16 years old." That was my struggle on first day in here. Since that time, I tried to practice a new language by listen to the radio and look up words in the dictionary. In addition, in Vietnam my parents were…

out of my car,” urged my mom with a smile. Wearing an unnecessarily large backpack and reveling in the significance of the moment, I caught my reflection in the window: a young, slender man with “black” skin from my father, “almond shaped” eyes from my mother, and a big smile all my own. My walk turned into a stride with swagger, pleased with what I see. Before my day at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Tecnhnology(TJ), I looked back at mom one last time for reassurance. It was my…

During the summer before my freshman year of high school my mom insisted that I try something new to get involved. I decided to try tennis and my mom drove me to my first workout of the summer. I was extremely nervous when I realized that I barely knew anyone there. There was five seniors, two juniors, two sophomores, and me. I went to every practice and caught on really quick to a sport I had barely ever heard of. I usually played exhibition matches which helped me improve my game, but I…

My Memoir I remember day that my parents told me I was going to have to move schools, it was a huge turning point in my life and it might not seem like a big deal but it was, and still is, to me. Both my parents are principals at Lincoln County schools so they switch schools periodically. This happened the summer of my first grade and I didn’t understand all of their duties and how the school systems work. It was around June or July at night almost time to go to bed, when my mom told me to…

excited. I had been waiting and waiting and it finally came true. My dad and mom were divorced already, my mom was raising my sister and me by herself. My family is all born and raised in Colombia but my great grandpa came to the United States a long time ago and for that reason my family came to the United States little by little. I was prepared for everything, but I didn’t know I as a person was going to change. 1st day of middle school I didn’t know English at all just the words hello and…