Graduation Speech : My Best Friend

I have been going to school since I was four years old and, that means that I have been attending school twenty to twenty two years, including kindergarten, middle school, high school and now college. As every student, I had my ups and downs in school; I had some failures and some successes. One of the failures that affected me the most and that I will always remember was the time that I was in high school during my junior year. I failed almost all my classes and, I only passed two classes and with a C. In the other hand I had some really good success. The most recent one and the one that I am still happy about is getting my Family Development Credential. We learn from our mistakes and also from our successes, these two times in my life

So far, all throughout high school, I have done my best in school. I strive to get the best grades I can. There are many opportunities out there, college related, that many people out of high school don’t have. I make sure I take advantage of these opportunities because all the hard work will be very rewarding in the end. During my sophomore year of high school, I had the chance to get into a four-year program that would have me take college classes while still in high school. Also, I would be able to job shadow different careers, practice interviewing skills, and get an internship. By the end of this program I would have an associate’s degree and have developed very useful skills necessary for a career. This whole program would be free.

Jena Zarroli and I were stuck in the same Spanish class together my freshman year of high school. I guess you could say we bonded over our mutual hatred for it. But I never would've guessed that we'd later go on to become best friends. School ended and summer began, but Jena and I rarely hung out. Not until a few weeks later anyways, when we had the most outrageously funny sleepover I'd had possibly ever. After that we were practically inseparable, so inseparable to the extent that I even started going to work with her to help out. We usually worked late nights. And boy did we goof off. But things got done none the less. Afterwards, I would sleep over at her house.

I dance 20 hours a week, and found it very hard to keep up with my school work. Many other students have the same problem with their after school activity. If we didn’t have the option of attending a K12 high school, there would be fewer up and coming athletes in the world. In this essay, I am going to tell you why it is a good idea to have a transfer offer from public high school to online high school. There can also be many issues that teens face in completing their school work on time, and correctly. Some students do not have time to do their work in the best effort and skills that they can do, which brings their grade and self-esteem down in a flash if they do one thing incorrectly. Some students do not have time to do school work at

High school ended, as well as summer. I was on the plane ride back from vacation to start college. I was in the tight and rigid economy section, while my sister, my father’s only princess, was enjoying herself in the luxury of business class. But that wasn’t the issue. I can’t say that I was fueled with excitement starting this new chapter in my life. I mean why would I be, I was on the honor role all of high school, took Ap’s, captain of all sports, manager, president of the student athletic council, I was even an assistant to the principle for large school events, and yet I couldn’t get into the school that I was most interested in, the Grove School of Engineering.

She influences me and encourages me to try new things everyday. I did not expect to meet such a lively person and to have them as my best friend. Together we have done so many things I didn’t even imagine doing before I moved here. Together we went to her house on Balboa Island and had a blast Memorial day weekend riding our bikes around the island and on the ferry. Then, she wanted me to do Torrey Pines Junior Lifeguards with her where I had the best four weeks ever. A few months later after a water polo camp, we both joined a club water polo team and have been playing for 8 months together. Finally, we did Junior Lifeguards again this summer and had a blast. There isn’t one specific memory that changed my life or made me enjoy it more, it’s the fact I had someone to share all these memories with. She is someone who definitely changed my

I am “that” person because I have always been very involved in my school community. I am in the orchestra and band, I am a member of Best Buddies, and I am a member of my student council. Within these groups, I have been the president of the orchestra for 3 years, I was the shadow president and social media chair for Best Buddies, I was the secretary of my junior class, and I am the secretary of the student senate. I have also been a member of the Unified volleyball team, Unified Cheerleading team, and swim team.

I looked up to her desire to help people and better herself at the same time. In the beginning, I struggled with her not being around. It was a lot of change all at once, not only for me but also my family. She was the person I went to for anything and everything. Knowing the distance between us existed was what made everything so hard. It was difficult for me to wrap my head around the fact that I wasn’t able to just walk down the hallway or take a short drive to see my best friend. The shortest trip to see her would be by an airplane. I thought I would be able to talk to her all the time but this was not the case. As time went on, I began to understand that school came first for her and that I needed to let her study and make new friends. I learned to be patient and that she would get ahold of me when her time was not occupied. She got to come home for breaks, so that made things easier for our family too. When she had the opportunity to come home for breaks, our relationship remained constant. It’s like we picked up where we left off when she left. She filled in the room she grew up in as if she’d never left, took me on drives with the music blaring through the windows, and continued to give me fashion advice no matter how much she complained about

By eighth grade, I managed to bring her into the group of friends I was in and by that time we had formed a true friendship bond that we knew, or somewhat thought, would last forever. She had become my best friend, the main person I could count on to be there for me through the good and bad times. No matter what anyone would say about us, we stuck by each other’s side. We made the best out of our eighth-grade year. When it was time to get ready for high school, we both decided to apply for Townview Magnet Center. I applied for Business and she applied for Health and Professions. The biggest joy of all was to find out we had both been accepted there and could go together.

Towards the end of seventh grade everything seemed to be turning worse for me. I was a socially awkward nerd who thought humor could solve everything, even if it was not that funny. My grades were plummeting and my parents were not happy or supportive with it. My best and only friend Marco, an intelligent and funny boy, was moving to New York. On top of this I was already in a rather bad state, being a dumb nerd, not good at anything in particular, and already having not been happy the majority of my life. The two things I was happy and proud about were gone. Just as everything seemed to be depressing and looking down I began talking to her. She was a caring, helpful, and saw the best in everyone, even me. At first I had not realized it, but

Throughout life people go through so many adversities. Whether it be good or bad there is always something that arises out of the situation. One of the most thrilling, but yet frightening events to take place throughout someone’s life would be graduation. For many people, graduating from high school is an objective. It takes a lot of time, effort, and determination to accomplish that goal. For others graduation is the end of high school, and the beginning of a new chapter in life. When graduated people feel as if adulthood has begun. In the long run, graduating opens a lot of opportunities for people to thrive.

Beautiful, amazing, wonderful, kind, imaginative, smart, and intriguing are all adjectives I can use to describe my best friend, Claudia Marques. We met last year at the beginning of school, when I used to go to the public school in our area. At first we were wary of each other, mostly because we were competing with one another. Our competition was to be better than one another at volleyball. I was trying to achieve my teammates respect, and since Claudia was the best player, I thought if I were better, I might gain their respect. Throughout the season we talked a little bit, but never got necessarily close. I was always keeping her at arm's lengths. This was because I thought Claudia was always a tad bit strange. These first months of noticing

High school is supposed to be the place where you have fun and a time in your life you’re supposed to enjoy. Movies often trick you into believing that high school is an amazing time in your life and there is nothing but parties and fun. In Bring it on, they portrayed the fun and exciting part of high school cheer-leading, however they intentionally leave out the tough times high school students’ face in school and in their practices. In other popular movies, such as High School Musical the students have no pressures other than the next basketball game. In reality, this doesn 't happen. The constant pressure is affected by the grade level you are in. In high school, students can be classified based on the pressures that are faced in each grade level into the categories of freshman, sophomores/juniors, and seniors. I am here to help you make your high school experience less stressful.

Before my senior year in high school I dreaded the thought of writing a paper, writing came as an immense struggle for me. I never had any confidence in what I wrote; I couldn’t help feeling that my writing was very subpar when compared to that of my classmates. It always seemed that the reason for my passing grades on papers was due to my teachers trying to rush through grading, rather than my ability as a writer. I felt like this was a reoccurring theme ever since I had entered middle school, because of this I felt my confidence as a writer slip from me slowly but surely. This continued until I met Mrs. Blevens, the instructor for my senior year writing class. I felt like she was the first teacher that I had that cared about her students writing. No person comes close to what she did for me my writing like she does. Mrs. Blevens knew how to push her students out of their comfort zone, probably the most important thing you can do for a young writer. In order to grow as a writer you need to be pushed at times in order to gain, even if it makes you uncomfortable and that’s exactly what Mrs. Blevens did for me.

Mid summer of 2012 I met my best friend, hes some kind of wonderful. His smile can light up any moment, his eyes are like a piercing radiance surrounded by long, deep, dark brown lashes. So tall and muscular, always ready to stand his grounds or stand up for a loved one; meanwhile, a big teddy bear behind closed doors. He is unexplainable in a way, I could go on for days and he still wouldn’t be clear enough. I moved in with this man within just a few days of being introduced to him. During the big summer storm when everyone’s power was out for at least two weeks, I had no clean clothes, no way to wash my clothes, no way to shower other than to wash off the best I could, no alarm clock for work, and the list could go on. Neal Bonecutter was introduced to me by the bartender Kristie (mutual friend) at Mizway. I already know everyone has heard””