Let 's start from the beginning. High school for me was a period of transition in my life. A stage of growth, hormonal changes, molding of the personality. Going from middle school to high school I realized that it was not the same thing: we had a different building, we crossed the hallways with older students; the teachers were different. t was supposed to be focused on getting good grades, making my parents feel proud of me and taking advantage of the great opportunity that was given to me which was to have been in one of the best bilingual schools in a country as poor as the Dominican Republic.
At that age, at least to me, I did not care about my grades, being late for classes or even going to class. My mind was everywhere.
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Is the stage where the child is molded.
Back to high school, as I said before, nothing mattered to me and I did not think about the consequences that many of my actions could have. The future was not something that worried me back then. I did not get excellent grades, I was a bit disorganized, not dedicated and irresponsible, with some of my subjects.
In my interior was going through problems of self-esteem. I remember as if it were yesterday the first week of classes in the new building, I was terrified to walk in the corridors where everyone was and this lasted maybe more than a year.
Make bad decisions, walk with people who, at this age, were not the best influence for me, even if they had a great heart. We were rebels and we just wanted to be cool and those of the bigger courses saw how cool we were.
My classmates, some extroverts and fun, others more centered and quiet were good company during my years. Some and perhaps in a joke, made fun of me. They made fun of the way I spoke, made fun of my behavior and behavior, over all men, so I began to cling more to women to trust and develop friendship.
I was sent to study abroad in Florida. I spent a whole year in Florida at a military boarding school. I learned to become independent, good grades and it was a wonderful and unique experience. I wanted to go back to my country, I missed my family and wanted to graduate in the school that saw me grow and I
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
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
From happy moments to sad moments, from having the best time to falling asleep in class. Middle school was also a place for change. As Robin Sharma once stated, “Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.” High school will definitely bring many changes in our lives. At first, everything may be difficult but, as each year goes by you will quickly realize that you are capable of handling it because, you know at the end of the day everything will be
But I excelled in the class, and I felt like I really could succeed in the one subject I had always dreaded. Even today, I fall back on the year that I learned I could succeed. I took theater that year. I had so much fun in the class, and I learned about Jaguar Players, something that would become really important later on. I also joined STEAM, and I got accepted into NJHS as well. The months flew by, and I finally settled into my new life in Arizona. Sixth grade was a really important time for me to build a solid foundation, academically and socially. I took advantage of the “pod-like” structure to secure my place in the middle school environment.
It was the rude awakening I need to be successful. It was both good and bad. High school made me realize that I can not do everything I want. If I do I will be overwhelmed and will not reach my full academic potential. That was bad because I realized I could not be in as many classes as I wanted. The good part of this is that it helped me stay on the correct path. High school gave me a new perspective on how to look at people who seem to be struggling, cool, awkward, or some other way to describe a person and think about what is going on in their life before judging them.
High school is such a different experience for everyone. We all take different paths and learn new things everyday. We learn trigonometry, how to fix cars, how to dissect a frog, and different laws in the world. The things we learn in class are very important, but along the way of expanding our educations, one will tend to learn a lot about themselves and others. For me, I feel that my high school experience was not ideal and I constantly complain about the outcome. Looking back in grade eight, I had a different plan for me. It took me up until this year to realize that although my experience was not something worth bragging about, I've learned a lot about who I am. I've learned to take chances, be patient, and
That's when I had decided to stop trying in school. Before that, I had straight A's and was part of the top students in the class. I was in all the Honors classes. I got high scores, I participating in class, helped the teacher, and enjoyed helping those who needed help. But with being smart comes a price.
When I was younger, school was never important to me and I never cared to study. So, once I hit junior
From my experience, surviving middle school takes a mixture of luck, naive fearlessness, and an aggressive number of colorful plastic binders. I started my first day of fifth grade a jumbled mess of nerves, anxious about making friends and doing well in class, and inexplicably dressed head-to-toe in red, white, and blue swag my mom got when the Summer Olympics were in Atlanta. I mean, my backpack matched my shoelaces, which matched my pants and my shirt. I might have even had a hat. A hat. A precisely matching hat. That I wore all day. Needless to say, I was not a particularly cool child. I studied hard, had a core group of equally nerdy friends, and constantly worried about whether I was doing the right thing or, perhaps more accurately, becoming the right thing. Was I not studying hard enough to get into college? Or maybe studying too hard, missing out on my youth? Would I grow into my teeth one day? Would my skin eventually stop looking like greasy peanut brittle?
I did a lot of volunteer work. For example, I attended all of the convalescent homes in Bakersfield and homeless shelters as well. I took four years of French because I already knew Spanish. My father had always told me that I just had to try hard to succeed in life and I listened. It was a pain to get through high school, but with my friends and family giving me kind words of encouragement, I knew that I could do it. I did the medical academy at Stockdale High School because I knew it would help me get into the college I wanted.
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.
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