Life After You Graduate College

After high school I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do for a career. After years of wandering I decided to join the military. I completed basic training and technical school in Texas. I was miles away from the comfort of family and friend back home in Maryland. This was the first time that I was truly on my own. After training was complete I was moved to Spokane, Washington. where I completed my term in Spokane and it was time to reenlist or get out the military. I was ready to have my life back so I decided against enlisting for another term. When it was time for me to discharge the first question everyone asked me was “where I going?”. In my mind I had two choices. I was either going stay in tiny Spokane or go back home to Maryland. I spent a few weeks thinking about my options and at that time I was certain home was the best choice. Moving back home made sense for several reasons:

After graduating high school mostly everyone has both high hopes and dreams, people whom have high hopes for the career life ahead of them seem to run into manys different obstacles along the way. After graduating high school I finally came to a conclusion of what I wanted to do with my life. My senior year in high school not only did my hopes change multiple times they also changed tremendously. One of the biggest obstacles that I ran into or that I face everyday is my cell phone. My cell phone is my biggest issue when it comes to anything its almost like its impossible for me to put it down. With social media being as big as it is today my head seems to stay in either instagram or snapchat 98% of the day. rather than my phone I seem to run

The essay ‘Life After High School” by Annie Murphy Paul is about the effect of a persons high school experience on what they do later in life. Paul had been asked to be the commencement speaker at her old high schools graduation which made her wonder if our high school experience determines who people become as adults. To see both sides of the argument Paul interviewed some experts and read studies on the topic. Some of the research has shown that there some truth to the idea that high school has the ability to shape who we will become in the future. This includes research taken from the Wisconsin Longitudinal study, which is one of the largest and longest-running research project on the effect of high school. For example that jocks are in

her sister June who was “plain and chunky and steady […] June did this, June did that,

“She was a girl who’d lost her brother, and someone had led her to believe I did it, and in anguish she had tracked me down. If I’d been in her place, would I have done anything differently?”Maria Lu p. 230. This quote shows the ways that Day has grown because of his experience while he was with June. At First , he felt anger while he was June because she betrayed him. However, after making an effort to empathize with her he comes to understand why she treated him the way she did. He also begins to see what he has common with the girl he believes is his enemy. Near the end of the book June finally understand why Day means so much to her and how she can’t let him go, he reminds her of her brother.

June has always been smart and analytical since the day she was born. Being a fifteen-year-old prodigy, she is gifted in her ability to create, plan, and develop different situations and that proves true throughout the story. Following the death of her brother Metias, June has her sights set on figuring out what happened to her brother. As June and the military join forces to investigate her brother’s death and incarcerate Day, she discovers the truth behind the midst of it all. Now knowing that the Republic set up her parent’s death and Thomas, a military soldier, killed June's brother she now joins forces with Day to fight the resistance and take down the Republic.

Whereas Connie is considered beautiful, June is seen as “plain and chunky” (496). Regardless of their differences, both girls have one thing in common, they both love to spend time with friends and Connie uses this to her advantage. On several occasions, a friend’s father has left them off at the mall, however once they arrive, Connie travels across the street “ to a drive-in restaurant where older kids hung out” ( 497). It is here that she comes into contact with her future assailant, but at the time she ignored his attention.

Connie is a self-absorbed, beautiful fifteen-years-old girl. Connie and her mother are at odds. Connie has a twenty-four-year-old sister, June, who still stays with her parents, but works as a secretary at a school where Connie learns. June is dutiful and a homely

Her goal when she graduates this year is to become a military officer and to capture Day. She has a brother named Metias who is a commanding officer in the military, he is the only family she has left and very important to June. After her latest stunt climbing the city's skyscraper Metias has to pick her up from the principals office to take her home, so he can go oversee the arrival of the plague medicine at the local

As for her sister June she finally sat down and talk to

Miss may become a different woman in joe eyes but he kept treating her right but he was still a distance from her. She spent days hoping that someday Joe will forgive her and return to her. Days past no signs of forgiveness she decided to leave him only to realize that she can't leave him because she loves him too much and didn't want to surrender defeat to Joe's mom who every night praying that their relationship to end. Missie unsure that her relationship would ever go back to normal she went him to back with courage.

June decides that she can't support the Republic anymore, and has to help Day escape. To do so she enlists the help of Kaede and Tess who are both wary of her but decide to join in. June and Day are also getting closer, and Thomas is getting a little suspicious. Because of this, Day's execution date is moved up and June has to carry out her escape plan before they're fully

June said “June what's yours”? She stared at me and replied “June” “we have the same name” “ no we don't June is my name and I don't give you permission to use it” she looked at me “your name is fish eyes”. Later on her mom said that they were moving and June thought far away but it was closer than June wanted. In paragraph 46 her mom says “we're moving”! June thought Alaska Florida Arizona far away somewhere without the other June. but then her mom said “Look at this deal” then mom said “we're moving to Fifty-Sixth Street” this means she still has to go to swim class and she will still get bullied by the other June and she would move closer or farther from the other June.this shows that June wanted to leave and never see the other June but when her mom said “ Fifty-Sixth Street” she knew she was still going to see the other june.Later on when june moved she realized she moved closer to the other June and she went to the other Junes school and got bullied even more. In paragraph 96 June says “NO “ “NO NO NO NO MORE”! I leaned towards the other June put my fingers on her chest and pushed her back. Her cheeks turned red and she squeaked it sounded like Eeeraaghyou and she stepped

My mother pulled me aside. “Emily you need to calm your siblings down if we cause

I’ve just entered my senior year of high school. I know that this is a very important year. I have a lot of decisions to make and not much time to make them. These decisions will either make or break my life, and I want to make sure that I make them to the best of my ability because there is no turning back. I need to make sure I definitely want to attend college. The decision is totally up to me. There are many positives and negatives of attending college. Go over them, and then decide. I know myself better then anyone else, and I won’t let anyone else tell me what to do. I will make sure if I am going to attend college that I have something in mind that I will want to do, to succeed in. Choosing a major can be a