Becoming An Adult Research Paper

The transition into college can be a defining moment in a person’s life. They have opportunities to work hard and be successful and also opportunities to slack off and be disappointed. I feel confident in my ability to transition smoothly into college life. Many parts of my high school career, both at school and away from school have prepared me for what is ahead in my life.

Being a senior is a very exciting and important time in your life. This is the year that you have to decide where you are going to go to college, what you want to do in your future, and how you are going to afford furthering your education. Lets face it, there are very few people who can say that paying for college is easy. That is why you go to school everyday, put in as much effort as you can to become very knowledgable, so you can get good grades, and score well on SATs. Working hard is one thing that I can say I have always done. Not only in school but outside of school as well. My goal is to work hard so that I can get as many scholarships as I can to help me pay for my years of college. I think that I deserve this scholarship not only because I am a top student in my class and work extremely hard, but because I would be appreciative of any amount of help the scholarship is going to offer me.

It seems that today's day and age education is everything. From the time you enter elementary school they tell you “college is important,” and you are pressured about “what do you want to be when you grow up?” Entering high school it really hits home. There are college visits, applications, due dates, and many other college preps to do before you even graduate. Now, I have always been one to enjoy school and try to learn something new every day, but it became my only chance when I was medically discharged from the US Army almost a year ago.

Has something in your life, been what makes you who you really are? Well, for me that would be sports. For others, it could be clothing, music, family, friends, and the list could go on and on. But these things reveal who we REALLY are. For my essay I will be talking about how sports reveal who I am as a person.

As of right now I am writing to you where you will one day be sitting. I hope that my first born is a boy named Elliott, but if you have a different name or you are a girl i still will love you the same. I am seventeen and at the end of my senior year. I hope that when you are a senior you like school so much more than i do. I am not the biggest fan of school, but I never have been. I hope that when you are in school there is no dress code. The biggest fight every student has with authority here is about the dress code. Jackson County's dress code in 2017 is a bit ridiculous. You can not wear shorts, tank tops, and basically the color white without getting sent to iss (in school suspension).

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still,”-Dorothea Lange. Since the day I was born, my mother has been dreaming of the day I would turn fifteen. In my culture, turning fifteen is like winning the lottery. Turning fifteen means you are now a woman and people treat you different. One of the many rituals of turning fifteen is a beautifully designed album. Unlike most girls, the thought of a Quinceañera frightened me. I was terrified of getting an album full of my pictures. However, even though the experience was horrendous, it taught me to see the best in everything.

Another way being or acting like an adult is having responsibility's. It comes a time in your life where you have grown up and starting doing stuff on your own and just being you. Some examples would be moving out of your parents house may be going off to college. Getting a job is very big from my personal experience I didn't get a job till this coming year and it has been the most stressful thing ever but its a part of growing up and its life. Paying bills, owning a house, owning a car are all good examples of being an adult. Going out and getting stuff done by yourself. Lastly, being an adult means owning up to your mistakes and learning to just keep quiet sometimes. In life we have to learn that everything doesn't need a reaction. We have to keep our mouths shut and always remain humble. also if you make a mistake, learn from it know what you did wrong, but do not dwell on it move on and use it to your advantage life is stepping stones for all of us. Becoming an adult may be hard for some and natural for others. it really all depends on you may be at an early age, you had to grow up quick maybe instead of your mom or dad taking care of you, it was you taking care of

Turning 16 was a big deal in my family. My parents believe that I should have a license and have enough money to pay for gas and insurance. This was a big burden on me because all I had was a permit and leftover money from my birthday which didn’t cut it. My mother nagged me about 6 months everyday mentioning “maybe you should go online and looks for jobs with all the time you have” or if I would say something like “I’m bored” she would respond back with “hmmm if you had a job you wouldn't be bored”. This caused me to later get grounded for two months. My mom got sick of giving warnings and followed through with an action. I didn’t want to lose my free time, my friends and my hobbies but I lost it all anyway so finally I convinced myself

Turning fifteen is a big deal for a girl because she is considered as a woman, and it’s important that she gets to celebrate her coming-of-age in the best way. After looking for her quinceanera dresses, arranging the dances, and finishing the invitations, she deserves a great time. She will only turn fifteen once and she wants to make sure she has the best time at her quinceanera party.

I love a good game of "Truth or Dare." It's scary and yet thrilling. Daring my clients to do something they want, but are scared to do is a common practice. Sometimes, all you need is someone to ask you to step up to the plate, and you will. You need a little nudge... somebody to care enough about your desires and inspire action.

From all the extensive job careers I saw, I would want to be a Historian. A Historian is a person who researches, studies, and writes about the past. This could be done by traveling to different places and looking at objects such as diaries to get an idea of what happened in the past. I thought it would be interesting to look at something in the past see how it happened and try to find out what happened and put my opinion out there. To get here I would have to finish college and etc.

“Adolescence is a challenging developmental period during which individuals experience a dramatic increase in the occurrence of stressful life events” (Hamilton et al., 2014). When thinking about middle school, you do not necessarily think about being stressed about huge life events, the only stress a middle school child should have is if the person they have a crush will ever speak to them. Though, I do believe that it is possible for middle school athletes to become stressed from outside stressors. My younger brother right at the peak of early adolescence. He is twelve years old and in the seventh grade. Plays both basketball and football, but still maintains an A/B honor roll report card. Being the older sister and having a five year gap

To have a better understanding about the process of aging and what it means to someone who is considered an old adult, I interviewed someone who is seventy-five years old. This person is a female whose name is Margaret James. Mrs. James is an only child who was born in the island of Jamaica. However, at the age of twenty-one, she and her family migrated from the tropical island to England. This was because Mrs. James, at that time wanted to pursue a career in nursing. And so she

Personally i’m young and just started to be introduced into the adult world, honestly i’m horrified that i won’t be able to make it. All the crimes that have been happening in my hometown makes me feel like i won’t be able to make it into the actual adult world. Anything can happen in a matter of seconds. I miss being able to go outside and playing, hanging out with friends or just taking a walk down the street, but now that seems impossible people are losing their lives so quickly. Now it’s a blessing if you’re a black man and you made it past your 30th birthday. I feel sorry for the boys who started out gang banging young and what they had to do to get there.

A college is a place where we go to a party, learn and of course get away from our parents, I’m here for that reason and more. Becoming independent is something I feel I should focus on because I can’t rely on my mom all of my life especially since I'm an adult now. Being independent means that I can make decisions for myself like picking my own classes, become a different person from how I was in high school, and try to join different organizations. Me doing these things should increase my chances of being independent and learn how to make it on my own.