High School Or Middle School Graduation

When junior year ended last summer, I felt like I knew exactly what was coming my way-- after all, I watched three different groups of my friends go through senior years of their own. It was finally my turn to experience senior year, something it seemed I had known about for years, and I felt like senior year would be easygoing and uneventful. Now, it has taken just a few short months to realize how incorrect I was. If senior year has taught me anything, it is that one never really knows what comes next for them, even if they have a good idea. The monumental highs, as well as the deepest of lows, have kept me on my toes throughout my senior year.

On the morning of my fifth grade graduation, I was chosen by my teacher to read a speech in front of everyone at graduation. Which included the fifth grade classes, faculty and staff, and most importantly, families of the graduates. I immediately felt my stomach turn upside down. Me being the person I was at the time, I have never talked or read about something at such a very large crowd or event. Also with being in my teacher's class, I was very shy and wouldn't really talk with anyone. So figuring out why she would pick me to talk to a large crowd of people totally shocked me.

Imagine it’s your eighth grade, year.  Time is flying, tick-tock, tick-tock.  You’re getting closer to that one thing you’ve been waiting to achieve, since the day you started middle school.  It’s coming down to the wire and there’s only one week left before this event arrives.  You’re feeling confident, however you ask yourself,”Do I deserve to graduate?”  Bang, there goes all of your confidence, down the drain.  This is what many eighth graders worry about during their last few months of school.  Throughout the duration of my eighth grade, I’ve accomplished many goals and have grown into a more mature person. These attributes have led me to an amazing eighth grade year which makes me believe, “ I do deserve to

Towards the end of my senior year of high school, I was preparing for the next chapter of my life. I would be attending UC Davis in the summer for a four weeklong orientation program, specifically for first generation college students. This was the first time I would be leaving home by myself to a different country and it was the first time in over eight years that I would be exposed to the American culture. I did not have any roots in any American city nor did I have a so-called “home state.” However, if there was one thing for sure, it was that Germany was my home and it has been for the majority of my life. In this paper, I will be discussing how the following topics in sociology: culture, socialization, and identity are related to my move from Germany to California as well as how I felt during the entire situation.

Every school year fifth graders face a big change from the lives they are used to. Middle School. It is our job as upperclassmen to assist these new sixth graders. These students need our advice, and help, to make sure they live out their middle school years correctly. The finest piece of advice I can give any student starting middle school is to plan out all your middle school years.

My senior year of high school was really lonely. I had gotten into a drama filled fight with my closest friends at the end of junior year, so my senior year I was voted off the friendship island and outcasted. Sure, I probably could have attempted to fix things, but I was stubborn and insisted on isolation rather than forgiveness. It was a really hard year for me emotionally between losing some great friends and the idea of college in the back of my mind. Who was I going to be? Where was I going to go? Would I ever make anymore friends? It seemed many of my classmates were busy making memories with their friends as our high school days were dwindling down, memories they would remember forever and there I sat hidden in the background, admiring from afar. It broke my heart, and to be honest with you... it just really sucked. I tried my best to make the most of it. I spent a lot of time that year with my nose in a book. It was my own unique way of making memories that year with no one else except myself and some truly memorable characters.

At middle school student’s maturity and focus causes them to envisage things about life they didn't before. How students have changed gives them a new prospect on life, or even a mindset on life. Their understanding of life grows matures each day. Students see how things work due to their experience in middle school, they see so many wonderful things about life. Numerous changes occur to students in middle school and students perceive life and transform tremendously.

Dear future seventh graders, are you excited for the upcoming year? Well it’s exciting because you are halfway through middle school! So make sure you are prepared.

Graduating from high school is important for many reasons. First is so that one can go to college and further his or her education. When one does not graduate high school they will decrease their chance at college. Another reason is that graduating high school promotes job opportunities. With a high school diploma, college is currently an option, along with other universal jobs. Lastly the knowledge learned in high school would not be useful when someone does not graduate, seeing as they will not have a diploma, which jobs requires. In conclusion, graduating high school is an accomplishment in itself, and to continue more achievements graduating high school will lead you on a path to do so.

Graduating high school marks the transition into adulthood and signifies the beginning of an independent life. From this point forward there's no requirements to do anything, to be anyone, the choice is yours to make. The responsibility for your well being and your future is now solely in your control, you choose your own destiny. In a world fueled and run by currency, my greatest fear for the future is money holding me back and coming in between my dreams and reality.

During high school, I participated in a multitude of activities of different types each year. I joined my local YHEC, Youth Hunters Education Challenge, team the spring before my Freshmen year where I learned skills not only involving firearms and archery, but also orienteering, wildlife identification, and safety. Also, I was enrolled in the school’s choir for my first three years and the band for all four years. My Freshmen year was the last year I participated in Tae Kwon Do, although I was involved in it for three years prior. Discipline, respect, and the importance of physical health were emphasized in class and these years of practice and routine was rewarded when I received my black belt. However, as I became involved in high school,

I am not sure what about my senior year of high school led to so many times of reevaluation as opposed to other years. Maybe it was because of the overshadowing of closing one door while knowing I would have to open another one very soon that led me to think through who I was and how I was taking in information. But, nonetheless, that year brought forth many opportunities for me to learn about myself.

On October 2010, I was drop out of high school at the 10th grade. From that moment I came to realize that there is no way, I can complete my studies. I was become homeless for a week because I didn’t have any place to live, all my family dislike me because I didn’t do well at school. One of the thoughts that came through my mind was to kill somebody and go to jail. Suddenly, an amazing thing happened: my superhero and lovely brother rescued me out of the streets and gave me hope.

During my senior year of high school, all that I could think about was starting college and getting away from my small hometown and all of the drama that is stuck in it. I chose to go to the University of Miami in Coral Gables Florida. It wasn’t my dream school but it had a beautiful campus and a great academic program and the biggest factor was that it was far from home. I left for Miami in August to move in to the dorms and go to orientation. My mom came with me to help me get settled into my dorm room with my roommate that I had never met but had spoken to many times. I would soon learn once my mom left that Miami was going to be nothing like I imagined and it would be a hardship that taught me my greatest life lesson to date.

My mother perpetually advises me through statements such as “সর্বদা আপনার সেরা করা,” which translates from Bengali to English as “always do your best.” Taking heed of my mother’s advice has led me to always try to be the best possible version of myself, in school and outside of it. Adhering to my mom’s words was difficult to practice my junior year of high school. I knew that my junior year was going to be arduous; my schedule was inundated with SAT preparation, ACT preparation, AP classes, and extra-curricular activities. None of this was going to be facilitated by the added stress of finding out my father had just been diagnosed with having an “enlarged prostate,” meaning less and less time would be available for me to focus on school and my personal life. Equally terrifying was knowing that my grandfather had actually passed away from the exact ailment as my father was diagnosed with. As the only child, dismissing my obligations to help my mother and father out during my father’s crisis was not an option. My father was admitted at Baylor hospital for more than two months. My entire focus for the first half of my junior year was not on obtaining good grades or stellar SAT scores; my main priority shifted to helping my father return to a stable healthy condition and to enable him to experience a speedy recovery. Miraculously, during the second half of the school year, I was able to concentrate on my studies resulting in achieving excellent grades…grades that I was