College Admissions Essay: Freshman Year Of High School

These years are kind of the fun years of high school. As a freshman I was trying everything out, all the activities, making new friends and going to the dances and sporting events.

My Junior Year of high school just recently started. I have learned so many different things while attending high school, and still have over a year to learn even more. As Matthew Kelly said, “whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future.” This means while I have done a lot in my past, I cannot change anything that has already happened, but I am able to change my future. One of the most important things that I am involved in right now is school. My first two years at CBHS were good, and I made decent grades. Some of the grades that I made I am not very happy with now but I cannot change that so I need to focus on my grades right now because those are the ones I can change.

I just can’t believe there is only few more days of high school left. As the days are getting closer and closer, it's getting sad. I still remember the day I stepped into Maine East High School as a Freshman, at that time, all I wished for was to graduate from this school with good grades. High school was not the way I imagined, it is way different from what I thought and definitely different from Middle School. Freshman year was the “exploring/adventure” year, finding where each classes were, what activities/clubs were offered at this school and many more. Freshman year went quickly and then Sophomore year came up. Sophomore year was probably the least stressful year in high school but from Sophomore year my family and friends started asking me the scariest question “What are you doing after high school, which career?

Freshman year could definitely be the worst year of High School when it comes to your social life. This is the year where you can expand your friends to more than just people in your grade. This year is also a sad year because it is when you find out who your real friends are. High School is all about gaining new friends and losing what you thought were your friends. When I started my freshman year all I heard when I started was that your real friends will show and you fake friends will vanish. In my case this did not happen. Yes, when I got into Highschool I did grow farther apart to some of my friends, but I would never say that they have vanished from my life or anything like that.

Looking back at the years that I have completed in high school is a funny but a true life changer. If I was to go back to one year of high school I would want to go back to freshman year. One reason why I would want to go back to freshman year is to talk to myself. Another reason I would want to go back it tell myself to listen more. The last reason would to see if I could improve myself in any way.

“You are not college material, look at these grades,” my Mother proclaims as she looks at my recent report card. “Stick with sports kid” my Father, adds. The sad part is, I actually believed them.

Your freshman year will be exciting, but it can also be intimidating. It is the start of four long years of high school, some of the most important years of your life. There are a lot of important things to do your freshman year, many of which I didn't start until much later. So here is some advice that will help you survive your freshman year, and prepare you for the rest of high school.

I was always told that things would change in highschool. You would meet new people, find new friends, and even discover a new class that amazes you. No one prepared me for what was going to happen Sophomore year though; no one saw it coming.

The first year of high school is always scary. It is no longer going to school with people the same age, but instead going to school with people who are 18 years old. The first couple of days are nerve wracking and scary, freshman are at the bottom of the high school food chain and it is rare for people to graduate with people they came in with. It’s important to try hard in school, go to football games/school dances, stay involved, and not get caught up in petty drama.

Freshman year was fast. I thought I was ready and had all the experience needed from elementary and middle with the addition of “high school based” movies (which are all lies). I was wrong. I took my first AP class, and I failed the test. An hour before my first cross country race my coach asked if I wanted to step up from JV and run on varsity, because my teammate was injured. I was too scared to say no. I lost some friends from middle school, but gained new friends. The first lap of the 1600 is always fast and sets the tone for the rest of the race.

Freshman year was my easiest year of highschool, I thought because it was high school the work was going to be more difficult for me, but it was not. The people that knew that was in high school told me that it was going to be more difficult than middle school. That is probably what most freshman would say. When I first got to the high school the upperclassmen looked a lot older and taller than I was. I was the tallest out of my friends in my grade, but not taller than the upperclassmen. The school felt so much bigger than my middle school. The middle school that I went to was Central Middle School and It’s wasńt as big as Euclid High School. Central only had 2 floors and all of my classes were close. Euclid High School was 3 floors and there football field was much longer than my last school. My classes were spread out pretty far and I felt like I had to walk a mile to each class. I felt like I was never going to find my way around the school. I eventually found my way around to each class by like the next week of school. I didn’t really have any anxieties, my freshman year of high school, I wasn’t worried about anything and wasn’t expecting anything special just the school being big.

Junior year was pretty much back to normal. I was now accustomed to the new people, new faces, new teachers, and new surroundings. I really enjoyed taking my second year of chemistry, precalculus and biology while I did not enjoy American Cultural Studies. I am more of a science/math person, not so much history and english and two straight hours about history was not exactly what I looked forward to every morning. I got through it though and enjoyed after school more.

My high school days have been spent at a STEM focused school, where I have worked to get my associate's degree alongside my high school diploma. I've worked my hardest to succeed, often resulting in a loss of sleep, and having to give up many extra curricular activities. Through these years I've learned that my passions are encompassed mainly in fine arts. Music is a big part of my life and is a passion of mine. I have been learning the piano since I was little and later added violin to the mix. I found my passion for musical theater a couple years later, and began to immerse myself in the various aspects of it. Art,

Freshman year is a challenging time for everyone: a new school, new classmates, and new expectations. Adapting to these new things is difficult and I decided that being shy, like I was most of my childhood, was much more comfortable than making new friends and trying new things. This made most of freshmen year a little lonely and closed off. I wanted to try new things and meet new people but I did not want to face the possibility of rejection. I desperately needed a push to get myself out there and expand my horizons. Thankfully, this push came sooner rather than later. In history class one day, one of the high school’s counselors, Mrs. Vought, approached me with a scholarship opportunity. Funded entirely by the Zonta Club of Alpena, it was an

Instructors often say that senior year is the most academically challenging for a student in high school. Teachers also say that senior year grades are vastly overriding when it comes to applying for college because they are the most up-to-date indication of a student’s advancement.