Advance Placement's Life Lessons Essay

Science seems to have always been interesting, just not in a classroom. School science classes bored me. To me, it was just memorizing vocabulary. It was always science outside of school that excited me. I remember as a child I would spend Saturday afternoon parked in front of the basement T.V., my eyes glued to the screen during the Discovery channels Mythbuster marathons. I loved watching the Mythbusters use science to solve problems to do tasks. Even if, that task was often causing something to go catastrophically wrong. Mythbusters made me take notice of the everyday things around me that, in all actuality, were super complex. This curiosity extended beyond those T.V. Saturdays. Soon enough I was playing in the backyard trying to make potions

I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with science. From a young age, I remember searching through the internet to answer every question I had and asking my parents - both with PhDs - about the world around me. One day, I discovered a documentary: Battlefield Cell. In that moment, I was hooked on learning and had a problem I wanted to solve.

The ways that time have changed from when punk was at its prime, as my group and I were partying and getting wasted, squatting in whatever rotted, half-demolished, abandoned building we could seek. Obnoxiously we disregarded every single matter or consequence at the point of time, we thought we owned the place. Recklessly striding around streets tormenting everything and everyone that got in our way, sticking up two straight fingers to society. This was our life and we did whatever we wanted. Authorities despised us, never the less we undoubtly knew the police were intimidated

“Two little lines I heard one day, Traveling along life’s busy way. Only one life ‘twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.”

After months of tests, quizzes, homework, and salty tears; it's finally over. The feeling of relief after being accepted into college and almost finishing school is the cold steel which slayed my dragon.

Imagine: you are on a green soccer field, wearing new cleats and a shiny uniforming. It’s almost the end of the game and you need one more point to break the tie so you can win and go to champions. But then when you’re about to score the referee comes in and tells you and everyone else that can’t play because it’s too dangerous. Kids have been playing competitive sports for decades. So why should they not be played? Kids should play competitive sports because they teach important life lessons. Such as sportsmanship and teamwork.

In the 7.125 billion people existing in the world right now, I make up only a tiny portion of this large population. It is rare that we contemplate about these type of things, most likely because there’s already enough tasks occupying our minds, or we just want to escape the dark reality of our existence and how we’re all specks of dust within the galaxy. But on a side note, although our lives may seem insignificant at times, we can rest assured knowing that there isn’t anyone else quite like ourselves...or is there? Of course there’s always the possibility that we have a doppelgänger living in Antarctica that befriends penguin carcasses, but what really defines us as individuals is our personality, interests, and hobbies; setting us apart from the 7.125 billion people living on this giant hunk of rock.

You don’t ever think about how important certain moments are going to be, until that's all you have left to remember someone by. This is a phrase that I hold dearly to me and this is what life has taught me. I had a friend, a best friend that I loved and could always count on no matter what. I’m going to tell you about the exact moment that I realized what kind of friend I really had, and the exact moment my whole world was crushed. This is what life has taught me.

Throughout my life I have discovered that life can change in instances that I refer to as moments of impact. Recently many moments of impacts have affected my life. There are small day to day little moments that bring me joy and there are big life-changing moments such as building a house for a homeless family in Mexico last summer. The most recent moment of impact that still affects me on a daily basis is my family 's latest addition of new family members. On a very sunny day in May, we rescued two pyrenees mixes and named them Theo and Zara.

Morrie Schwartz was an intelligent, interesting senior citizen that touched a lot of people, especially Mitch Albom. Morrie passed on a lot of his knowledge in the last few months of his life, due to amyotrophic lareral sclerosis (ALS). This paper will touch on Morrie's philosophy of life, what he says is important and valuable, and also the struggles and problems of life. I will also compare Morrie's message with other philosophies and also give my opinion about Morrie's theory of human nature and philosophy of life. Morrie's philosophy of life is full of many ideas and to better understand it it's easier to break it down into parts. One of the philosophies was to cherish family and to be more open about your

They say life is a roller-coaster, it has its own ups and downs, well my life is a notable example of that quote. I wouldn’t say my life is perfect, nor me. Instead, I would say I’m awesome the way I am. I’m a person who loves to help others. I believe that there is only one race and that is the human race. If you can’t fulfill the relationship of humanity, then you are not capable of fulfilling any other relationships. In all, I would say the more positive I am, the more positive my life becomes.

Life is a short adventure and that why we should use the best of the life that we have been given. Most people with end stage diseases regret the opportunities that they lost. They always wish that they could have experienced more opportunities. (1) Every day that you are living is a miracle and you need to live it because there might be no tomorrow. I remember my grandfather was always telling me I wish I could redo this life because I learned that life is very short and you need to take risks and chances in your life.

My mother’s important goals that filled our household after my father died included keeping our family out of poverty and for her children to obtain a high school education. My life’s path and choices had some correlations and parallels to the writings of Weaver, Tan, and Malcolm X. To venture back to a time that I have not thought about in years was difficult. The traditions discussed in this paper include hard work by intimidation and fear, poverty and the need to work, and gender discrimination. The traditions of my past did not become my future. The traditions my husband and I made for our family come from a better understanding of where we have been, the poverty we lived through, and the importance of education to a successful life.

When I was growing up, college was always talked about. From school to family to friends, it was anything any of us dreamed of. We knew it was an important next step in life, a straight line, get great grades and high scores in high school, and go to college. I dreamed of what I would good to school for, I dreamed of what I would go to school for after that. I had so many dreams about what exactly I would do, but unfortunately, life had a flurry of other plans for me. I had my path picked out, my ticket to happiness. I love learning, and the thought of more time spent in school has never been daunting to me. It wasn’t until I was in high school that I realized that the obstacles I was going to face were going to be a lot different from what my friends were facing.

We did it guys. We’re graduating. I’m not sure how some of us made it, but here we are. As a class we were able to get past quite a few close calls to make it here today. We made it through literally a few hundred hours of ISTEP tests that probably didn’t need to happen. In middle school, we endured the intense heat and noise of the plywood palace. In high school, we made it through the PSAT, not just once, but twice. We survived New Tech and all of the fun combined classes that came with it. Who would have known that classes like biology and English would go together? Or even better, personal finance combined with literature. While these classes definitely presented new challenges, we pressed on and somehow, here we are. For those of us who took dual credit comm, we even made it through a 3000 word research paper. There were plenty of other challenges along the way, with many of us juggling multiple jobs, sports, vocational classes, and other extracurricular activities on top of school work. But we made it.