My College Education : The First Year Of High School

In middle school I was always a decent student in my class; never had a grade letter lower than a B. Transitioning from Middle school to High school took me a while, as it does for some students. Compared to Middle school, High school was much more difficult, learning, studying, testing and meeting new faces. But, regardless of the new circumstances I've always tried to keep everything maintained.

The rest of high school unfortunately did not get any better, with my improved focus my marks raised and so did my ambitions, but along with that my anxiety had bigger role. I was fired from a job because I spoke out to loudly and upset customers and I struggled to keep friends. I felt like I lost myself because I was always trying to run away from the low scoring distracted child I thought I was.

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

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High school did not have me prepared for college. College requires students to develop a

Sophomore year was extremely difficult for me. You know how most people go through a rough patch at some point in their life? Well, that was me all of Sophomore year, everything just seemed too big and scary to deal with, and so I basically put everything off. The guidance counselors always use to say when we were going into high school that we would need to stay on top of things before they started to pile up. I just thought that they were just being dramatic to try and scare us into doing our work, but they really weren’t. By the time I realized this, however, it was a little too late, and I was faced with two options; attend summer school to regain the credit that I had lost, or face my peers when school started up again and be two credits

The end of my Sophomore year was the worst time of my entire life and the main cause of my beliefs and ideas of myself. Depression hit me hard and fast like being in the two minute and twelve-second knockout boxing match with Muhammad Ali, but gratefully received help from my family, school, and a special someone. It played a massive role in my effectiveness in school work and social life, but that became the start of what I would call a blessing. Motivation and ambition came quickly after the second semester after months of pressure and love from others who I am proud to call family and friends.

School was a challenge for me when I was younger. Not having the right mindset for school at that time was a major problem as it could affect the way I felt about school for the rest of my life. To me, school was all about who looked the best and who was more popular. I was new to middle school and it was totally different from elementary. It felt as if focusing on school wasn’t as important at that time, needless to say I was on the bandwagon train too. Hanging around and trying to keep up with the cool kids took a toll on my grades tremendously. My schoolwork had escaped my mind in a way. I didn’t see it as a priority anymore.

The idea of college is overwhelming, considering that incoming students have to decide where they will live, what they will study, how many hours to take, and especially how they are going to pay for it. Randall S. Hansen, a nationally recognized Entrepreneur, is helping incoming college students everywhere deal with all of those critical ideas about college with his article called “Your First Year of College: 25 Strategies and Tips to Help You Survive and Thrive Your Freshman Year and Beyond” which explains what students should consider doing in their first year of college to make it through. In this article, he emphasizes how much students should think about what they do in their first year when he

I started my high school career in the fall of 2014 at Euclid High School. It was a humid day. I was scared that my hair was going to be ruined due to the humidity and, ruin my day being that it was my birthday. I wasn’t nervous about being in the high school. I was most excited about getting out of school early and, that I only had four more years of school left. The transition from middle school and high school was pretty easy for me. Seeing as though that my best friend brother’s were already in high school, they would tell us stories about school, and that it isn’t what they show on tv.

My high school experience hasn't been a success for me to get to college (Binus Univ) by taking all of the class I needed to get this far. Actually, i'm not graduate in 2016 but a year ago, I have came a long way during my high school because I really thought I wouldn’t have made it this far due to struggling to keep my grades up but as I started it’s really hard at all to keep them up.

To begin with high school isn’t really tough, unless you start procrastinating. Procrastination was one of my biggest problems in school. I always thought I’d have enough time to do stuff, and I’d tell myself “Ehh i’ll do it tomorrow” but that's what brought me down 10x more. By saying i’ll do it tomorrow it went from days, to weeks, to months. I gave up on school during the last two quarters. With drivers ed in the morning, school right after, and work right after school gave me little time to get my work done for school. So I couldn’t really stay after school, or before school whenever I

Ultimately, my enthusiasm for high school depleted in a matter of weeks. It became boring, and contrary to what others have said, it was not very challenging. Students around me showed no motivation to work, therefore, that unfortunately made the environment inadequate for

High school helped me become aware of the fact that I’m not the best, but I’m okay with that now. Being in advanced classes with advanced students made me feel like I didn’t belong in there. Freshman year was when I realized I had a problem and that problem was self-doubt. I wasn’t confident in my work. The significance behind this is I struggled with it for about two years and never mentioned it to anyone, but I’ve dealt with it and I’m a stronger person now.

The first year of college comes with many changes and challenges. These changes can include the food in the cafeteria, study habits, time management skills, and much more. Every student has to find their own way to handle the first year and determine what works best for them. For many the most essential change is living away from home. Campus life provides opportunities to become a part of a unique, diversified community. With these opportunities come challenges, such as having a roommate, being away from one’s parents, and determining self-limits.