A Different Path Than Most Of My Peers

I think I speak for many people when I say high school is a critical point in one’s life. Coming into high school, things seemed to be tightly-knitted between my peers and I; those of us who had just

Early in my life I had always been fascinated by the world of business. Elon Musk has been a hero of mine since middle school. Being a successful entrepreneur was something I have imagined for my entire life, I even have an idea journal packed with ventures I some day intend on pursuing, which contains ideas that range from starting a honeybee farm to designing a complete, real working lightsaber. I shared my ideas with my friends, family, and teachers, who all told me the same thing “That is a great idea, but you will Never be able to do it, you are a kid, and every day you want to do something different” When I got my driver’s license, I finally believed I had everything necessary to start a business I had been dreaming of for weeks. I harnessed

High school is always considered some of the best years of life. Students live with their families, see their friends almost everyday, and participate in the activities they love with the people they love. It has enough freedom for the student to decide how hard they will try, but it also has just the right amount of restrictions that parents can step in to make the student work. High school also gives students many opportunities to succeed and keep letting them try again if they fail. For example, a math teacher may allow a student to retake two test throughout a semester, but if the student proves that they are trying in the class then the teacher may allow them to retake a few more tests. Also, schoolwork is not tedious or lengthy,

In high school I have learned the true meaning of being selfless and what the gift of giving is. I have spent much of my high school career volunteering at school and in the community. Many students spend their years of high school partying and hanging out with their friends, but I have dedicated myself to staying after school every day to volunteer and help the Athletic Trainer at the High School, as well as being a part of our schools community service group, Youth Core, as an officer.

Over my high school years at Waukesha North, I have had a very diverse and fun experience. From my sophomore year when i started working and earning my own money to my freshman year when i joined marching band. High school has taught me a lot about myself and others, and i only plan to further the knowledge through my college years.

It was the rude awakening I need to be successful. It was both good and bad. High school made me realize that I can not do everything I want. If I do I will be overwhelmed and will not reach my full academic potential. That was bad because I realized I could not be in as many classes as I wanted. The good part of this is that it helped me stay on the correct path. High school gave me a new perspective on how to look at people who seem to be struggling, cool, awkward, or some other way to describe a person and think about what is going on in their life before judging them.

Attending high schools should be more than just exposing students to a structured curriculum. High school should also be a place where students are allowed to think outside of the box. Schools should inspire creativity, sparks curiosity, and fuels ambition.

D) For me, high school actually began when I started to challenge myself with the juggling act between volunteering opportunities, religious youth groups, and athletics. Foremost, I racked up over 100 hours of community service in of Key Club, Leo Club, and UNICEF, student-led organizations where members serve the community through activities including food drives, collecting clothing, and cleaning up parks and beaches while raising funds and awareness toward the provision of humanitarian aid to children and mothers in developing countries. Meanwhile, I was a youth leader of the T.I.T.U.S. Youth Group at the Journey Church and helped organized their 30 Hour Famine to raise money and awareness in the fight against poverty and injustice for

High school. The time where you branch out of your social norm and get to experience being a “teenager”. The time where you are surrounded by kids who only care about getting an

I remember being an anxious eighth grader thinking about starting my freshman year of high school. We went from being at the top of the school to being at the bottom of a new one. All of our middle school teachers always told us about how our high school teachers wont “hold our hands” and how we will be on our own. Being in high school is completely different than being in elementary school and middle school. Its almost like each year we have more and more freedom but more responsibility.

As I reached high school my life started turning towards becoming an adult. School was your work. After school was sports, then you went home for dinner and finally went up to your room to do

The high school experience is something that will forever dominate the psyche of most American adults. It was an unforgettable time of fun, rebel-rousing, summer loves and parties. It was a time of warm summer days at the pool and chilly autumn nights, watching the football team and wondering were the party was going to be that night. School dances and hotel parties. Seems like all I can remember are the good times. High School is a very emotional time for many teens and everything matters. The insidious problems that I had to face are but a smudge on my memory, things like too much homework, zits, mean people, gossip, and algebra. The social atmosphere that permeated every aspect of high school could

Once a child graduates from elementary school and goes on to high school, he or she is already molded into the person he or she will be for the rest of his or her life. Sure all kids become more mature within those four years, but their values are still the same, and in some cases even stronger. In most circumstances, a child will use what they learned in the past to make decisions inhe future. High school, however, is important for other reasons as well. High school is the very last step before a student can enter the realm of higher education. Therefore, high school is essentially what prepares a student to go on to bigger and better things. High school is where

Everyone always talks about how high school was so fun and you should have the time of your life, and everyone got along, but I never quite saw it. High school for me was not a time of befriending everyone, finding love, and fun times. To me, it was a confined prison, full of sweaty kids, stupid drama, and overwhelming work to do. I spent the majority of the time trying to find who I belong with, a club I fit in to, people to hang out with, and how not to be such an awkward person all the time. I was under stress constantly, for my parents forced me to focus on nothing but school, and despite me being focused on that, I wanted to try to hang out with friends as much as I could. I had to learn how to balance social life, school life, and my alone time. And what a struggle that was.

High school was when I developed a curiosity for writing. I had known from my previous experiences in middle school that writing in a classroom setting was exhausting and boring. Adding extra words to try to fill the last half page of a length requirement became dreadful back in sixth grade. I felt my writing was not interesting, but the