Just One Kid Out Of Hundreds : An Analysis

Is being a teenager really worth it; all the stress, problems, and judgements that come with it? Society, family, and friends telling you this and that, is sometimes too much too handle. In the book, Teenagers Preparing for the Real World by Chad Foster, teenagers are given tips to deal with the stress of being a teenager. The author prepares and tells teenagers how to deal with the “real world.”

In high schools today, most seniors are piled down with work and fatigued from after school activities and jobs. On average, most students spend 7-8 hours in school and most have after school jobs which they work for at least 6 hours. Most teachers and parents would say it’s because they’re in preparation for college and adult life. High school seniors are tensed and stressed because they are trying their best to succeed and make something out of themselves. But how can they do that if they have such busy schedule?

High schools in America typically are in session for 9-10 out of 12 total months. Students get the occasional week-long breaks every so often for Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the like. Classes usually run from approximately 8 am to 3 pm, Monday through Friday, with hardly any breaks in between. An average class can last anywhere from 45 minutes all the way to two hours depending on the style of school you attend. Most high school aged teens also participate in one, or several extracurricular activities. The pressure to succeed greatly in these activities can lead a student to let their life become consumed with a nonstop cycle of school, activity, school, activity, etc.

But we tend to forget that, as Drake once proudly proclaimed, “YOLO.” You only live once. High school is over now, and we can no longer be the careless teenagers we once were. So ask yourselves this question: Did you make the most of this time period? While it doesn't hurt to study for tests and do homework regularly, it does hurt to sacrifice your social life as a consequence. If you find that you were leaning toward one of these extremes in high school, pursue a more balanced lifestyle in college. And never let the uncertainty of the future get the best of you.

The adolescent years are the hardest years lived by everyone. Hormones are raging out of control and thoughts of self doubt are present on your mind at every second. You spend majority of your time enclosed a facility with other teenagers all experiencing the same discomfort. That’s right: high school. HIgh school for me was the final stage in metamorphosis to adulthood. Beginning my my high school career in a brand new school with no familiar faces or friends was a first. For the first time, I was alone. I spent lunches and alone and had no one to work with. At first, it was all so terrifying, borderline embarrassing! But later, despite being by myself, I stopped feeling alone. My focus later stopped circulating around the fact that I was

High School is a time when many teenagers get into trouble and have many conflicts and struggles. Without all of the struggles, high school is supposed to be four terrific years. There are many struggles for teens like peer pressure, managing your time, fitting in, and many more. Most high schoolers will get pressured by their peers at some point and can cause some serious problems. About fifty-five percent of students play a high school sport on top of having a job, keeping your grades up, and just overall having fun, which can be very hard to do. During High school, students are going to want to not be themselves and want to fit in without being judged by their peers. High school should be a time for you to have some great years in your

I just can’t believe there is only few more days of high school left. As the days are getting closer and closer, it's getting sad. I still remember the day I stepped into Maine East High School as a Freshman, at that time, all I wished for was to graduate from this school with good grades. High school was not the way I imagined, it is way different from what I thought and definitely different from Middle School. Freshman year was the “exploring/adventure” year, finding where each classes were, what activities/clubs were offered at this school and many more. Freshman year went quickly and then Sophomore year came up. Sophomore year was probably the least stressful year in high school but from Sophomore year my family and friends started asking me the scariest question “What are you doing after high school, which career?

Who knew High School would be over in a blink of an eye? Four short years and a whole chapter of your life is over. The goal everyone was striving to achieve was completed, yet an even bigger thing was approaching “Life”. All 365 of us would venture out into the world and start new journeys hundreds of miles apart.

As I reached high school my life started turning towards becoming an adult. School was your work. After school was sports, then you went home for dinner and finally went up to your room to do

I remember going into my freshman year of high school nervous but excited because I thought I’d learn so many new things. Next thing you know I found myself dreading school. Was I being lazy? Was it my lack of motivation? I still can’t grasp why exactly I lost that excitement or that yearning to go to school. I was raised to have the idea that school was a place to learn not socialize. But at the age of 14, what teenagers don’t want to socialize and that’s what got a hold of me. I spent too much time worrying about other things that didn’t involve my education.

There were times when I was so focused on my schoolwork that I forgot to have a social life. Don’t get me wrong; school should always come before play. However, due to my inflexible high school schedule, multiple AP classes got pushed into a single year. I was fully able to handle the extensive course load, but at the expense of fun. There were multiple times that I missed hanging out with friends, or this year it was senior bonding activities. Although, all things considered if my only regrets in high school were a couple of missed opportunities, then I must have done something right these past four years. My high school experience, I feel, has been a small taste of the real world. In life there are regretted missed opportunities, but there is always time to learn from these

Daily stresses are finally kicking in, taxes, jobs, housing food, and everything else. It’s becoming overwhelming and it still feels like high school was yesterday. Now, “And you run and run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking.” At mid 30, youth seems like yesterday, and the past almost seems

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

Many people in high school, mostly teens, experience dozens of pressure in their life. To be specific, Schoolwork. Most teens want to excel in school, but want to have a social life or play some kind of sport. One thing that teens don’t understand is that once you’re out of high school, you have college, and then maybe graduate school. Our education will not be over just in High School. You have to work hard and these four years of your life, will impact everything that you do. If you mess up even once, it may ruin everything. This article is named, “Teens Biggest Stress? School.” It has been featured on MSNBC.com. It is written by, “The Associated Press”. It explains how 13-17 years old have the most stress in their high school life.

These are supposed to be the best years of our lives, the glory years. Whoever first proclaimed that the teenagers years were the best years of one's life was clearly never a teenager. In school they teach us how to graph equations and analyze literature and we have to memorize the first ten amendments to the constitution. Yet, they fail to teach you how to stop loving someone who has stopped loving you or how to deal with three tests and a quiz all within the same day, or how to deal with losing a friend to an unsaid goodbye, or a cousin to cancer diagnosed right as her life has begun, they say they prepare us for life and everything we need to know I am just utterly confused as to which life they are talking about. The teenage years are a slap in the face with a giant brick, we spend the first thirteen years of our lives sheltered from all the bad things, clueless as to how cruel this world really is. Our parents read us bedtime stories as they tuck us into bed. When someone has a birthday they invite nearly everyone and the worst pain imaginable is enduring a five minute time out. Then High School comes or ‘the glory days’, we walk through the doors eager to try hard and do well and after the first semester we find ourselves falling behind with the pressures of advanced classes, sports, clubs a social life and a personal life. 85% of teenagers have reported feeling extreme anxiety or depression throughout their high school career, teenagers are said to do everything they