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I Am At The Tenth Grade. So Where Should I Start?

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Good morning. I wanted to spend this 7-10 minutes talking with you about my growth this year and why I should go to the tenth grade. So where should i start? academics? struggles? successes? friends? it 's a tough choice.
So I wanted to start off by saying that this is my first year in the high tech high community and let me say it has been a very interesting year. I learned that I struggle with multiple things but can almost always find a way to solve them. From projects and from the beginning of the year till now, I learned a lot more about myself.
For example to start the year off we worked on a project called makeshift poetry, which was a combination of humanities and physics. The project was to create a poem and find a way to …show more content…

Creating the ring was difficult because there was no option of creating it on the gear generator program, it had to be created on adobe illustrator, but what was even more difficult was finding the right size of the gears that would perfectly fit inside the the ring and on the outer side. Before laser cutting our drafts and later the final product we needed it critiqued by Scott to check for errors. Karina, Handy and I had so many drafts of the product until it was perfect. At the end of the project I hated it yet loved it. I hated the project more towards the end because all the pieces needed to be spaced out correctly in accordance the ring, it all revolved around the ring. While working on the make shift poetry project I found out that I stress very easily and can make the most silliest mistakes under pressure. I found out that I’m very good with due dates, turning everything on time was extremely hard but that didn’t stop me from coming before school and after school to keep working on the project. The project would have been way more difficult though if Karina and Handy weren 't there to help. The reason I liked this project so much was because of the thrill I got after having a working mechanism completed, it was sadly one of the happiest days of my life. The fact that I created the mechanism made me feel really great.
I struggled a lot in physics but my biggest struggle overall was humanity 's, my writing is not

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