My Experience In High School

Seniors have a tendency of taking their last year of high school for granted. They do not realize that the relaxed classes and fun filled weekends with their best friends will all soon come to a devastating end. They have applied for college, bought miniature refrigerators, and sent in their housing applications, but none of them have really thought about college in the way that they should. When asked about college most high school seniors image the huge parties, attractive people, and freedom; however, college is much more than that and, in a way, much less. College and high school are completely different when it comes to a student’s actual lifestyle, but they have many of the same traits that most high school seniors do not see coming.

I recall the beginning of my freshman year when I was thrown into the chaotic and hectic mess that is high school. Not only was I given a much harder course load than ever before, but I also started the year off with volleyball. This made my life so incredibly difficult. As if getting home from a game at 10 o’clock was not enough, I typically still had about an hour of homework to complete due to my honors classes. That season felt longer than a giraffes neck . From the long nights of homework, to the complete mental breakdowns, Freshman year was one of the worst experiences of my life.

While some people believe that transitioning from a High School environment to a College environment is arduous, others believe it is effortless. High School and College both require teachers and work, but they both have differences that many people are not aware of. People will say that college and High School are similar because they both require effort for one to pass, but what they do not realize is the amount of effort which is necessary for each. With High School, teachers give students busy work that will keep them engaged in the class and keep them aware of the information being taught in class. In College, instructors give small amounts of work which will be turned in and taken as a grade. This is one example that shows how the two are different. Although High School and College both share similarities, they are outweighed by their differences. High School and College are different because they both vary in the amount of work that is given to the students’, the classes, one takes is their decision, and in college attendance matters.

In college the amount of classes and the time you have to go for is different from

High School culture has changed since the “old days.” Students from all grades are not only striving for academic success, but also participate in many extracurricular activities as outside forces continue to impact social life. With this comes the typical struggles of students figuring out who they are, and what kind of person they want to become as college becomes a daunting factor.

High school course work has assisted my plans to secure a post-high school education by teaching me responsibility, and a good work ethic. Throughout high school, I took classes that would help me get a basic understanding of what my college courses would be like. For example,

Not being able to comprehend college work at a high school level, and must know the basics before moving onto a college course, and could be stressful. Although this is true it is preparing you for the real world by teaching you how to fend for yourself, and in experiences, it’s helping further someone's career and pushes students to do better. While some believe taking these classes lead to rushing into everything leading to pressure, and some courses take away from teachers. But everyone must learn to overcome these issues by pacing yourself and learning how to work through the pressure by working smarter, not

Being in college is about finding yourself, shaping your identity and changing. For most people, college can be a disorienting place, for ones can be easy to make new friends and be extroverted, but for others can be a tremendous impact. Ken’s low expectations were a wake-up call for Mike Rose because he spent his elementary school years being a “mediocre student and a somnambulant problem solver”, he didn’t pay attention to his classes and he didn’t care about his subjects and books. Now that he got to college, Mike understood that college life is difficult for those who don’t have a marked personality, those who haven’t found themselves yet, those who are comfortable with being “average” without being curious about what they might be able

High School was boring! High School was dreadful! The ring of the alarm clock at 6:00 am in the morning was miserable. I wanted to get out as soon as possible because no one understands how hard my life was. When the teacher assigned too much homework for the night, my classmates and I let out huge “awwwgghh” sounds. Then comes the excuses, stories, and busy schedules of students. Upon graduating, I thought, “Yes, I am finally out of this black hole!” However, thinking that high school and college are the same, affected me greatly and made me stumble on my path. In today’s modern

Saying that high school has shaped me into who I am today is an understatement. As expected, freshman year was challenging, but I could not have expected graduating high school with five AP classes under my belt and a GPA above 4.0. As a freshman not knowing what my purpose was in life, I struggled to find motivation to get my work done. I was truly blessed to have my supportive sister in my lunch period in which we would meet up in the library every day to study together. While I used both my study hall and lunch periods to do work, I noticed that I ended up still having an excessive amount of work left to do at home, compared to what I had grown accustomed to in middle school.

High School; the most rigorous and aggravating part of my life. “People say high school is about obtaining an education and pursuing acceptance into an exceptional college to succeed in life. To me high school is about building memories and marvelous times that will last forever.” High school has always seemed like something facile due to all the movies that we have watched throughout our childhood, although in reality it is a challenging and momentous part of our life. High school is about obtaining my education, yet obtaining an education can also be enjoyable. Throughout high school, I’ve been completing all my high school requirements and a little extra.

In many ways, high school shaped me for my college experience. During high school, I took Advanced Placement classes. The workload was more than the average class’s, but it was manageable.

The transition from high school to college is not only an exciting challenge, but also a great milestone in one’s life. High school and college both share the common goal of expanding students’ knowledge; however, there are many differences between high school and college. They are similar in such ways that you still have to go to class, do class work, take test, and study hard. They differ because in college one is taking on an entire new load of responsibility and options of freedom. College is an entire new chapter of one’s life.

Senior year of high school once seems so far away as a freshman that the idea of graduating is unimaginable. When the day finally comes to step into the “real world,”

It was once said by a famous poetic philosopher, Lao Tzu, that “ The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”, and one of those many steps begins with the foundation of entering high school. Adapting to the swift and major changes of high school engulfed my mind with excitement and anticipation. Though the expedition of transitioning from high school to college has only merely begun, the lessons learned throughout my time in high school has enabled me to not only share my adolescent experiences and outcomes, but to also create a new account of myself within college.