My Experience : My Personal Experience In High School

I am Connie Alarcon a junior at Valley High School and my growth both personally and academically this school year has been one of the most mentally exhausting years of my life. This year truly made me mentally stronger, as well as changed me as a person and displayed academic growth in me , it taught me valuable things that I know will help me in the future. What this year truly taught me that i will forever value and always try to remember as I go through life is that at the end of the day I will be the only one who cares enough and has to fight for the future I want, nobody else will be able to fight for my future the one I want as much as I can and will.

It feels like it was just yesterday I was walking into a new school, as a freshman, but beginning my high school career, not my college career. I feel I have grown tremendously in the last four years, both in height and maturity. But of course, like everything, there is always room for improvement. As I go on through my next three and a half years, keeping all that I learned in this class close will help me mature and define me as a person. Being aware of the different backgrounds people have come from, and what they have will ensure I keep the best attitude toward everyone I encounter. Leadership is an ongoing process that I will never fully complete. I will, in the next months and years, keep my mind and eyes open to new ideas and opportunities for me to make my impact on the community and the

Transitioning to high school gave me the opportunity I was desperately searching for in middle school. I was not going to let the words timid and quite be stamped on my forehead this year, nor was I going to let people trample over me like an unfortunate soul who had been knocked over in the rush of a newly opened Black Friday sale.

Since my first day of high school, I have developed into a more responsible and mature person as well as open minded and understanding. Going into high school, I was pretty mature for my age compared to my peers but I was also pretty ignorant about my surroundings and certain situations I would find myself being in. I would even cave in and do things that I wasn't particularly fond of or interested in. Looking back at my past few years, I have gained a lot of experience interacting with people, learned things about myself, and have an insight of what the “real world” is like. I learned how to be my own leader, to be even more independent, and to stand up for myself & not be shut down or ignored. I have overcome different forms of adversity

I have changed since the beginning of Junior High because of a few reasons. One reason is because I am more mature than I was coming into Junior High. I am much happier then I was. Also I am more focused then i used to be. Also I have took on some more responsibility.

Now that I have completed my first semester of senior year, I feel like I have grown as an academic student and as a global citizen in many ways. However, I feel that the career hierarchy with Ms. Burnett has helped me grow as an academic student the most and the Rally in the Valley has helped me grow as a Global citizen the most.

The maturity of my growth doesn’t end with my graduation of high school because it’s experiences in life as a whole that shapes me as an individual. Everyone’s uniqueness should never be judged. I have no idea what someone goes through in their life, so it’s never right to make assumptions about them. With high school comes plenty of mistakes, but those mistakes made are the most beneficial in the long run because they’ve shaped me into a better person. Putting my school work first and my social life second has helped me become successful in

How have I changed in high school? Well for starters my body is different than it was last year. My legs are longer, not to brag but they are also stronger. I can’t really say some stuff in the essay so I’ll go with my upper body, its bigger it has hair and it’s stronger. My arms are the same as my legs they are also strong and longer. My face grows pimples and well that is all my face does, but that is just for starters. What I have noticed that changed is I have more discipline, I could thank that to my new bravery that allowed me to join football ohh and my coaches. Now instead of saying yes I say yes mam and yes sir. I have also noticed that I understand more I could understand when my parents talk sarcastically. And now I notice that

As the last quarter of my high school career nears its end, I can’t help but think about the last three years of high school and how much I have evolved. Freshman year I was far from the quiet person I am now. I was very talkative and much more outgoing. I used to play basketball for the school and that was my only worry at the time. There weren’t any SATs like junior year or college applications like this year. The last three years flew by so fast that I never got a chance to actually see how much I grew until now.

These last few years of high schools was very short, but it is phenomenal that I have done so many new activities during this period. In these years of high school I picked up multiple different activities to stay constantly active. Each activity has shaped my personality in different manners. I have become smarter, intelligent and more creative than I had been before. I have also become more open-minded and have learnt to work with diverse group of people.

This year I have grown academically,socially and personally in many ways.I have worked more on spelling and grammar but still I really want to work more on vocabulary and I type faster. I really like writing in class even though sometimes the writing prompts are challenging I always try my best I have a good attitude always towards humanities and writing.I have grown a lot in science last year my scores were quite low but I was still improving the idea of tectonic plates didn’t really interest me as this year. This year I really like the science unit which currently is the earth moon and stars and this was one of my favorite units and my grade had improved a lot.I also really like to read at school but I have trouble read at home because sometimes

Looking at how I have changed from freshman year of high school to where I am now I can’t begin to list all the ways I have grown. Trying to guess what I will have learned about myself after my years in college is nearly impossible but I can try and imagine it. After four years, I will have grown more confident in myself and thrown away the idea that what other people think of me matters. I will have learned to go outside of my comfort zone and meet new people, go new places, and take risk. Most importantly though, I will discover what is really important to me in life, and who I am as a person. Hopefully I will figure out what direction I want to go in life and the lessons I will have learned will have prepare me for that next step.

I didn’t always suffer from anxiety. My childhood was bright and vibrant and rarely was I seen upset or irritated. I’ve played sports my whole life from only 5 years old. Everything from T-ball, to gymnastics, to soccer between the ages of 5 and 12. After school, if I didn’t have practice, I loved to ride my bike or play with my border collie, Molly, on our 5-acre property. When middle school came around, I was the starting server on the volleyball team, I averaged a rough score of 60 for a 9-hole round of golf, and my tall thin build made me a great addition to the basketball team as well. The sky was the limit in my young eyes and I already knew I could achieve great things if I put my mind to it.

Have I grown and developed over the three years of my high school career? The answer to this question is a definitive yes. My life has been an amazing journey of physical, mental, and spiritual growth. My three years of high school education thus far have been extremely interesting and challenging. I learned important skills through my school involvement. Specifically, I practiced creativity and become a more understanding person. Among academic subjects, I gravitate to chemistry since I enjoyed learning about different chemicals and their interactions. I love chemistry. It interests me to no end. Therefore, my appreciation for chemistry has influenced my career choices.

High School was one of the most interesting journeys I have ever taken. It is a time in which most people grow and develop to find out who they truly are. For me I felt as if I already grew up, I hung out mostly with older people, because of my older brother friends would always hang out at our place so I would try and fit in. Since, I did this I just never really connected with my classmates on their level of maturity. However, I did grow and change in my own way rather than just maturing. My High School made me discover the challenges that life can give you and how to overcome them. Now I know that whoever is reading this must be laughing at the thought of a high schooler saying they have experienced the hardships of life, but my journey