Transitioning

Transitioning into middle school is usually a difficult task for most students. Extracurricular activities are sponsored by the school but are not part of the academic curriculum. They can help reduce stress, peer pressure, and social flaws. Extracurricular activities create well-rounded students who learn what interests them now to apply to their future. They allow students to determine priorities and manage time. Responsibility is an important trait to acquire and organizations help students…

Transitioning into adulthood is hard for any gender but it was especially difficult during the 1950s, a socially conservative time. As a woman in the 1950s, transitioning to adulthood was difficult and for Esther it was nearly impossible. Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar provides the opportunity to view a young woman's journey into early adulthood during a period where gender roles, double standards, and social norms severely restricted the options and opportunities available to women. Further, when…

Transitioning occurs in all stages of life whether it’s from a baby crawling to walking, or an elder moving from their home to a retirement facility. One transition in life that most of us face is the evolution from high school to a college or a university. With moving into a new phase of my life I was optimistic about the difficulties of becoming comfortable with the population, the diversity, and the college life in general that Wayne State provides. I made the leap to a big city called…

result one becomes obsessed with preserving every moment of their childhood. In the novel The catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, the protagonist Holden Caulfield’s tragic death of his brother, Allie, and his views on adulthood prevent him from transitioning to adulthood. The traumatic death of his younger brother, Allie, traumatizes his state of mind leaving him stuck in between adolescence and adulthood. From the beginning of the novel Holden seems to blame himself for Allie’s death.…

Transitioning from college to high school was a huge milestone not only for myself but the people in and around my life. Coming from a small town that everyone knew and of course getting good grades. I knew my life at CSULA would change my life for the good and that my choice of coming here would benefit me. But before I came I faced a lot and still face some barriers. First and for most, I was the never good at public speaking all my life I would dread to speak in front of a class and hated it…

called William Chiu, who graduated from Hasley Junior High School in 2012. The reason why I found this speech inspirational to me due to how reassuring it is for students (even outside of middle school) that are transitioning from one destination to another. In my case, I will be transitioning from high school to post-secondary education. The first part of the speech that felt influential is when William told his audience not to be fearful of stepping out of your comfort zone. To elaborate, I…

Transitioning from high school to college was one of the most challenging point of my life. Being the person who is always seeking opportunities to connect with people of like minds, not having the chance to be successful in that area was extremely difficult. However, upon approaching the final lap for my freshman year, I had the wonderful pleasure of discovering the Black Student Union on campus. Becoming a member of this club was everything I expected and more. It had afforded me huge…

The article I read for this assignment was, Order and Value: Transitioning to Integers by Laura Bofferding. In this article Laura Bofferding conducted an interview with 61 first graders to see what they knew about integers/ negative numbers. It was interesting to read about the different responses that the students gave her when she asked them a series of questions. Through this article, I learned about six different models that explained the way the first graders were thinking when they were…

biggest fears has always been going to an unfamiliar place, but each time I have had the satisfaction of knowing that at the end of the day I can go home. I am a shy person, and it has always been difficult for me to adjust to a new environment. Transitioning from eighth grade to high school was especially difficult for me because my high school was, in fact, a boarding school, which meant that that feeling of satisfaction was no longer present at the end of the day but postponed to the end of…

The HCT services are not efficiently utilized by the youth when transitioning to adulthood. 40 % of the youth are advised to go for the HCT services but in reality only 21% of the group actually receives the services. Many of the families are not in the favor of using HCT services while the American Academy of Pediatrics considers HCT a best practice for transitioning to adult oriented care and recommends the same for the families but the significant reason of the…