High School Is Always A Mixed Bag, And For Me

When coming to high school you quickly learn that you have a lot more freedom than you did in junior high. You can eat anywhere on campus and hangout with any social group you won't. Finding the right social group is one of the biggest factors in high school. I found new friends and discovered new things I didn't know i would like. High school is great because it provides you with multiple sports throughout the year that junior high doesn’t provide such as soccer, cross country, swim, and football to name a few. I chose to be involved in soccer, track, and cross county which helped me find many friends. Cross country for me was filled with the people that were trying to achieve the same goals as me. If i could i would play every sport at the

High school isn't easy, because of many reasons and one of them is work! The wok in high school gets harder. You will of course see new and unknown ideas, but they give you more work and test's. In middle school you had your final exam's at the end of the year and the whole year to study, but in high school we go by semester's and the the final test's for those classes are at the end of the semester. You don't have a whole year to study and review for your final exam, so it's

My high school experience was overall a mixture of being scared and growing to become who I am today. When I was in my first years of high school, it was just high school nothing more. I had seen teachers as teachers and friends as friends. I just

Starting high school was a challenge. There are new surroundings and new people to please and impress. Classes were difficult, not because the work was hard but because there was nothing that was the same. New school, new teachers, and new faces to try to please were to much to handle when everything was falling apart at home As time went on, the smile face mask I had to wear everyday got thicker and thicker and it was getting more difficult to put on every morning. The only thing I would do when I got home was do my homework, read a book, maybe watch a little TV, nibble on dinner then go to bed. That was my life and that was my routine for 2 years. When I did go out with friends I would be home way to early and nothing really happened to make

Junior High is a scary thought. You are little and going to school with the big kids. It wasn’t to bad after I got used to it.

Starting high school was nerve-wracking for me just like everyone else. I had made the Varsity competition cheerleading team as the first Freshman to do so. I was also one of the first three Freshman to audition and make it into the Wind Ensemble, the top band. Being a Virtual Performing Arts School, where arts are weighed as college courses, it was very competitive to get in. I was surrounded by upperclassmen on both ends of the spectrum and was determined to prove myself.

High School was not something I was good at, let me be honest I was a bad student. I skipped classes and didn’t do my assignments. I got into a bad relationship that hurt me and I got into drugs that made me feel numb. At that time my family and I didn’t have a connection; they were just people I saw at home. My mom worked most of the time and my dad went out every night while my sister was being diagnosed with schizophrenia and was dating a boyfriend who was her caretaker; you could say my family was not a family. When I had to get sober and become an independent young adult I chose to go to the University of River Falls. When I started there I was so happy to be on my own and to be three hours away from the dysfunctional thing I called a family. The first week there went wonderful, I loved the fresh air and the trees and I got along with my roommate so well. I was also excited to go home and see my mom, my parents are separated, and tell her all the great things about my independence.

Choosing the right highschool was a crucial decision I needed to make in the 8th grade. There were a lot of schools to choose from. I could go to Medford High School which is my local area school, I could go to Medford Vocational which is the vocational school of Medford, I could go to Minuteman where they had computer programming which is my passion, or a could go to a variety of private schools. In the end I chose Minuteman. There were a few problems that I had to overcome. The biggest problem was that very few of my friends were going to Minuteman which meant I needed to make all new friends. The second problem

Entering the high school, I felt more secure than I had felt when I started middle school. Because I already knew so many people from elementary and middle school, having friends in classes at high school was not an issue; however, the academic and extra-curricular expectations were much higher than they had been in middle school. At the high school, many of my peers enrolled in all honors classes. I, on the other hand, took mostly honors classes, but I also selected two academic classes so

I was seventten going eighteen, and I never once sat in a classroom, but I was thrown into high school to suffer. Both my brother, that I was older then for two years, and I were in the same class. The great thing about that was I look three years young for my age, so people mistook him to be my twin. To summaries everything high school was touch for me, but I still managed to graduate with good GPA and two

Things was completely different but the same. The work was harder and different from the work I had in middle school even the teachers I had was also different as well. My transition going into high school was different. It happened to be a different type of scenery and I didn’t expect for that to happen to me at that time. Being a freshman opened up a whole different world for me that I wasn’t really ready for. Going into highschool, I had friends I thought I would be friends with for my entire life. As soon as I got to high school things started to change. On top of the friends I had I also made new friends as well. When I was a freshman I had to look up to the upperclassmen to guide me and to lead me by example. When I was a freshman, it meant I had to be on my P’s and Q’s. I felt a lot of pressure when I was a freshman especially from teachers. Fitting in while I was a freshman wasn’t a good start for me because I wasn’t really involved into any school activities or

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.

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

High school was an easy transaction. I felt like I had the education and maturity level of a young adult. I knew I could handle all of the work and stress that was going to be dealt out in my classes. I noticed that high school was a lot like middle school and that I could handle the schedule. I did not really have any close personal relationships with any of my teachers like I had had in the past at my other schools. I only really liked two of my teachers out of the four years I was at school. Both of them were my math teachers for my junior and senior year. The last two years of math I learned so much that now I enjoy doing math because I actually understand it. The only other teacher that made an impression on me was my junior year English teacher. She was the only English teacher I had that actually taught me how to write and read great books. She took the time out to work with me individually. She gave me the tools I needed to write papers. High

Freshman year I remember walking into the school mortified, thinking that everything and anything that could go wrong would. I had never attended a Liberty-Benton School and knew about five people that would be in my grade. I was shy and quiet because I didn’t know any of the new faces. I was insecure about myself and thought that it would be almost impossible to make friends. Before high school, I went to a small, private,