5th Year Research Paper

Senioritis is a crippling disease that strikes high school seniors. This disease causes laziness, wearing too many pairs of sweatpants, lack of studying, and the famous not caring attitude. Almost all seniors diagnosis themselves with senioritis as soon as half of the year comes to a close but are still excited for what senior year holds. If someone skips senior year, they won’t get the full effect of what senioritis feels like. It’s the year every high school student waits for. Senior year is the year of all the “lasts.” Though senior year may be anticipating, people generally miss their high school years and want to go back even if it was just for a minute. Freshman year students learn to take every opportunity that comes their way. They learn to join clubs, sports teams, and talk to everyone. Sophomore year they learn to not make excuses and have the slap in the face that they only have two

Now I am in middle school at Jefferson. My favorite class is math with Mrs. Duggan. I do not care for Language Arts class but we have a funny teacher he says that he has great hair, lest he has hair on his head because someday he will not have any left. He also tells funny stories and jokes. The school year is ending and next year we will not have him anymore. Next year I will be in seventh grade I will be taking science, math, history, and others like art, music, gym or physical education. Gym is fun when you get to play the games at the end but you have to give it your all and run. Then eight

We were middle class, a very average family. The environment surrounding my family during that time was actually very civilized. Hardly no crime, amiable people and we got close with the neighbors and became very involved with their lives and they became involved in ours. I started attending Yeager Elementary. I really feel for that school because that is the place where I met most of the people I still talk to till this very day, it has a notable place in my heart, I can never forget my third through fifth grade years. I also started attending Tom Browne Middle School. Tom Browne was viewed as an average school, but, to some, it was a “low class”

At the beginning of my ninth grade, I started to feel and sense I was in a different environment from Jr. High. I became more serious about my school work. I started performing at such a higher level than ever before. I became an A-B Student and score advance on my SATP Algebra I test and proficient on my SATP Biology I test.

I started making new friends, such as Veronica Cadieu, and decided to give my fourth grade love another shot. Fifth grade was full of drama, and there was no time for a serious relationship so that did not last long. Before I knew it, 6th grade was approaching! At this time my best friend was Sydney Whitten and an editing app called Picnic. This was the year I really started to focus on my grades and try to decide what I wanted to be when I grew up. A friend of mine, Luke Lockart, and I shared the same career path, or so we thought, and went a little to overboard with planning our futures. We made business cards and slogans, mine was Kerstan Troyer the American Lawyer, and we even planned to live in New York together and start a business. 7th grade is a time I am not the fondest of. This is when I became boy crazy. Especially over one boy who will remain unmentioned. Also, this was the year I got to play on my first school basketball team! I loved basketball and all the best friends I made along with the

There's nothing worse than reflecting on something you once had, something that you loved, and realising that you will never be able to have it again. For me, it's the seasons I lived through in my childhood: every season had something to correlate to it. They always had something significant that made you know that that time of year was coming. But now it feels as if the seasons seem to float by me. That, or they are only signified because I've identified something I do not enjoy.

As I get ready to face my senior year, no body can predict what is going to happen like the weather. Weather is a great example to represent the coming senior year, sometimes it is good and sometimes it is bad. There is nothing much I can do about it. Even though there is a forecast, but still, there is going to be something unexpected.

Time flies. I will soon finish high school and move to college. The first semester of senior year is the most important period during my life, but I still have a Dragon I need to beat. The Dragon is called Procrastination. He has troubled me for my whole life, and I have never killed him before. During my senior year, I have to try to combat him, beat him, and destroy him.

High school, four of the most interesting years of life. It is a time to find yourself and figure out who you are and what you want your place in this world to be. During this process comes friendships that build because of alike interests and beliefs. From freshman year at the bottom of the totem pole, all the way to senior year, being the top dog of your school. It is such a great feeling knowing that those three years of hard work build up to essentially a grand finale. Many big changes happen as you grow older in high school. From summer camps, to starts of a new year. From homecoming week, to the end of sport seasons. From in school privileges to coming to and leaving from school early, and finally Graduation. This grand finale year has some similarities and some differences and as you read on you will see what I mean.

My senior year is coming to an end, high school is pretty much over. With the finish line quickly approaching, I reflect on all the things I’ve done in these past four years and, more importantly, all the things I did not do in the past four years that I probably should have. In retrospect, I never did feel like high school was going to be where the best time of my life would be remembered, but now that it’s pretty much over I think maybe I should have treated it like it was. I would love to be able to say there is nothing I didn’t do that I wanted to and that I didn’t have any regrets, but there is a fair share of both. When I think too much about the end, I get sentimental about the experiences, friends, laughs, awkward moments, and more.

When I was in the fourth grade, I moved from a small Lutheran school of 100 to a larger publicly funded elementary school, Lincoln Elementary. Wow. Lincoln was a big school, full of a thousand different attitudes about everything from eating lunch to how to treat a new kid. It was a tough time for me, my first year, and more than anything, I wanted to

I had started putting on a lot of weight, and already being very quiet and shy, I felt awkward and out of place, especially in year 6. This was the year that our school decided to make year 7 part of high school, so it was the year that the grade six and sevens were both graduating. Our year group felt like we were second rate graduates, only getting 3 days camp as opposed to a week, and instead of an end of year river cruise, we went just went bowling. Probably worst of all, we never got the chance to feel like the oldest in the school until year 12, but by then we were already fed up with school anyway.

Everyone has a favorite school year and mine happens to be sixth grade. I had some of the best teachers, classes, and friends. I remember being extremely nervous to start sixth grade, I wanted to stay at Boone Elementary with recess and no changing classes. I was as nervous as a mouse. I thought there were going to be millions of new students from different schools.Turns out I loved sixth grade more than any grades before. The first day of school my parents took me to school and I didn’t want to get out of the silver car. Not knowing that I would have the best time at Troy Middle School.

I remember the first day at Holy Rosary very vividly. I was five years old and I walked in with my best friend at the time Bernadette Keppler. We had assigned seats. All I remember was who was at my table group Zoe Fuentes and Joseph Doleji. I was so excited to start a new school that I forgot all about Bernadette. When I was in kindergarden i didn't know anyone in the other class so moving into first grade was weird seeing all these new people. Every year at Holy Rosary I would make new friends with people I didn't know went to our school or that came to our school that year. Now in eighth grade I know everyone and I’m very sad that I have to leave them next year. Being at Holy Rosary and receiving a Catholic education for nine years really shaped who I am has a person and these catholic values will continue to

Overall 7th grade was the year of repair. 8th grade came along and I found my potion in the social totem pole.I slowly became one of the funny ones. Most of this can be credited to communication class. We had to do speeches in that class and for lack of a better word I killed every time and this contributed to my confidence boost. Another important event in 8th grade I joined the band which gave me responsibility and I met a lot of new people.Of Course it wasn’t just am endless door way of hope my greatest enemy was in 8th grade was my science teacher who did not like me and made sure that my 8th grade year was as hard as she could make it. At the end of it all 8th grade was a big turning point for me personality wise. The next year I joined the Orgburn online program originally because my family wanted to move and just figured it was the best idea for the time being. Later my parents deiced it was for the best. Homeschooling lead to me spending a lot of time alone again but, this time I had more of a mental understanding of my situation. This caused me to become more cynical and question