Sophomore

Algebra was easy for me, but world history got to me. I failed that class for the whole year so I didn't really get to enjoy my last year in band. Sophomore was always failing and I missed so many opportunities to be spotted as a jazz musician. One thing that also distracted me the most was how much denial I had when I found out that my Mom was getting sick. It was just a horrible year. I hated this…

a class to get into a college. When I entered high school I was taking seven classes, it seemed easy enough. I continued to have seven to eight classes throughout sophomore and junior year. At my school you aren’t allowed to pick your math class until senior year. Your math teachers take care of everything. At the end of my sophomore year my teacher decided to put me into honors algebra 2/Trig. I accepted the challenge hoping to beat my greatest battle of plugging numbers and letters into many…

of the community that i’ve witnessed throughout my time attending madison for countless academic events. The summer of my sophomore to junior year I attended the UW-Madison Pharmacy Summer Camp. Ever since my freshman year when I applied to be in the healthcare academy at my school I knew I wanted to help improve other people's lives through medicine. Throughout my sophomore year I found that medications and treatments interested me extremely. This is what brought me to attend the pharmacy camp…

In my sophomore year of high school I encountered a serious roadblock to the easy path that I had been on. All throughout my freshman year, in all of my honors courses, I never really felt challenged; I never felt that I was pushed to my academic limit. On my first day of school as a sophomore, I met my English teacher. Mr. Yanzek. Mr. Yanzek is a cranky and sarcastic old man. He is the best teacher I have ever had. In his class I was forced to change my whole perception of the English language.…

Life is an adventure. Like any adventure, life is full of obstacles, challenges, and setbacks. These challenges include things like getting your first job, going through your first break-up, or to put each of these things in their own category...high school. High school is a very small, beginning chapter of life. To me, highschool alone was a very big challenge in life. My freshman year, I had started dating a boy who was a senior. Everything was fine until his classmates began to pick on me for…

discover a bit about myself. Also, I started to notice that a bunch of students had disabilities and they were going throw the same thing I was. It made me feel better about my learning disability, but I never told anyone of my friend.. I was a sophomore when I meet my ex-boyfriend and he back one person that holed me back in high…

done within schools, mainly high schools. An example I was able to part take in was when the principle of Hinkley High School came to the INSPIRE group with an issue that the sophomore 2015 class has become the class with the worst grades, attendance, and involvement. So we took the initiative of speaking in front of sophomore students during class, with the permission of teachers, to give have them thinking about their choices compared to our choices. It was a success, which improved all three…

"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty and persistence" I have had many ups and downs over the course of my life thus far. One specific example of this took place during my freshman year of high school. When I started high school it was very challenging for me, partially due to the fact that; during this time, I was lazy, unmotivated and did not really take school seriously. This by far is one of my biggest regrets to this day. Who would ever think that…

How I changed since Freshman year Freshman year is the year of adaptation. It is more of ‘fight or flight’ situation. Basically, if you get through freshman year, you’ll survive the rest of the high school years. And because adaptation takes time, you are very prone to make many, many mistakes. I entered Trimble Tech High School with a very immature mentality. My major was ‘Education in Training’, which was not the reason I had applied to Tech, but I never did anything to change otherwise.I…

nonetheless not a smooth sailing ride. I started out freshman year with minimal A's and B's and had a mostly a C grade or below. I struggled throughout my freshman and sophomore year mainly due to previous brain trauma that I have experienced when I was twelve years old. I got into a bike accident and then re-injured it when I was a sophomore by getting into a car accident. This took a huge toll on my ability to perform at my highest potential because I lost a lot of my working memory. Simple…