High School Reflection Paper

Growing up is a journey we all have to travel. Everyone makes their own paths on an adventure of change. Along the way, the path will be beautiful and smooth-sailing, bumpy and rough, and sometimes conflict will appear out of the blue. At times forks in the road will show up and decisions must be made. Change is inevitable. Throughout a lifetime decisions made will be small and slight, or huge and major. It does not matter because one decision can change one’s path completely. Even the slightest change can make the difference. The decision could even be a change of hairstyle. A change in hairstyle could lead to a new fashion sense, to a new genre of music, to a completely new person. I myself have noticed many differences and similarities between my middle school self and now; and it is only the beginning.

Starting a new chapter in life is difficult, it comes with new experiences, new conflicts, and a lot more tension. To be honest a lot of things change when you start to experience the generation of junior high your mind set swifts off of the child set themes to more productive thinking you try to understand many things that are not meant to be understood.

High school has been a very interesting experience for me. It has definitely had its highs and lows and many confusing experiences in between. Overall, I feel like I have been equipped for not only college, but also life as a whole. High school has taught me many things, both academically and emotionally. It has revealed and exposed my true colors, both good and bad, and as a result, has built many aspects of my character. My experiences at school have shaped me into the person that I am today.

For four long years I felt as if my high school was in a different world in of itself. I had spent that time interacting with an extensive amount of groups, or “cliques”, and getting to know what they do. Through my experiences, I had begun to realize what made this “subculture” high school of sorts run like it did. High school is an incredibly dynamic time for people, and I had changed as a person dramatically from my freshman to senior year. Like many, my freshman year was quite awkward, as remnants of my middle school self remained with me. As time went on, how, I talked to more people and grew out of my passive and shy personality. This did not just randomly happen without reason though. I began to learn and realize who I was and whom I enjoyed talking to in school, which explained why I spent so much time socializing with multiple kinds and groups of people. Everyone’s concept of “normal” was different, and high school was where I learned that lesson and will never forget.

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Having only one AP class where I felt I could be successful, I enrolled into AP Studio Art for my junior year of high school. It was advertised that students would only work 4 hours a week on their own for it. In the past, I got high grades in my art classes, so, I thought it would be a better fit than the other three AP classes that were offered to me. I was so, so terribly wrong.

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After reading my first reflection, I realize I was very hopeful about high school in the beginning of the year. However, now I have mixed feelings about high school, since my first year did not go as I had anticipated. My first reflection mentioned how I thought the first month of high school was quite unexpected. Little did I know how unexpected ninth grade would turn out. I could never have imagined what would happen to me this year. Certain aspects were thrilling, exciting, hilarious; however, other aspects were depressing, anxiety-inducing, and highly stressful. I was incredibly naive and starry-eyed in the beginning of the year. However, I feel as if I am now an experienced adult looking down upon a young, innocent child, while secretly knowing that my younger self has yet to face the brutal, harsh, and unforgiving world. Nonetheless, there is always a wiser, more experienced elder looking down upon me.

Have you ever just felt like high school was too easy? Well I have because I felt like the teachers just passed you on. They didn’t give me a challenge like I was supposed to have and from that being, now I have to prepare myself for the college life and teach myself the things I was supposed to be taught in high school. The school I came from didn’t have a math teacher or a history teacher all year so we just sat in the class rooms and played everyday all day and I still ended up passing and that school was Albany Early College. They told me that I would finish high school with an associate degree but all I got was a discombobulated school and an uncontrolled school. The next school I went to didn’t care either. They showed me that I can skip class everyday and still pass with an A average. Despite all the things I didn’t get taught in high school, I did learn some unique aspects that I can reflect on and use for college. The skills I reflect on are annotating, using the Cornell note-taking system, and how to be on time for school.

The class size of Washington State University is what first led me to inquire more about the program. Being from a small school with small class sizes I was delighted to find a veterinary program with the same aspect. The hands on experiences WSU offers right away because of the access to the hospital influenced me to apply. The best part in deciding to apply to WSU was the well roundedness of the program. I felt like in deciding to apply to Washington State University I was deciding to take a chance at enhancing many facets of my life.

Fall 2015 semester was the first time in several years that I drove. I had serve anxiety surrounding driving as a result of a car accident. This affected my attendance greatly as I either missed classes from not being able to leave my driveway or was late from pulling over to calm myself down. I did not want my issues with driving to adversely affect others on the road, hence, I had to rely on family and friends to drive me when they could.

Although I am not very good at writing and analyzing literature, English is a skill that I believe is essential and something I have always wanted to excel in. The reason why I believe my skills lack in English is that I tend to analyze situations more formulaically and systematically, which explains why I am a mathematics and computer science major. My primary difficulty in writing before I entered college was my ability to pull important information out of small, specific pieces of text. I never understood how one could retrieve so much information about a story from the analysis of as little as a description of the setting or a couple of lines of dialogue between characters. So, coming into my first day of English 1102 at the University of Georgia, I wanted to discover and use techniques that could help me analyze specific sections of text effectively and accurately. What I found is that there is a multitude of formulas and techniques that can help me effectively and efficiently analyze a story and that I can apply these same techniques to other forms of media. Overall, however, this course helped me realize that the methods and techniques used in analyzing literature and media are profoundly similar to ones used in the analysis of a mathematics problem.

There I was, sitting in a cold hard metal chair, in my first writing class; which happened to be an “advanced” writing class. As if I was not already nervous enough, the first thing our teacher handed us was a research paper assignment. This strange feeling of fear instantly consumed me. How was I, someone who had done minimal writing in the past, supposed to write a 10-page research paper? Well, the answer to that was quite simple. I would eventually complete this assignment with the help of a patient teacher and hard work.

Winston Churchill once said “ Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” There was one point in time during my early high school years I didn’t think I was smart enough. Then, during my senior year this particular meeting happened. This was an individual meeting with our high school chancellor to find out what was our rank during our high school years. As this day approached, I started to reflect on how I use to act during my freshman year, the grades I received, and the crowd I was hanging with. I will tell you later on what I ranked, but right now I will tell why I thought I wasn’t smart enough.