My First Year Of High School

My first day of my sophomore year of high school starts today. Riverview High School is a huge school and has tryouts for the Kiltie Band Highland Dancers today. If you make it, there is a rumor you are instantly popular. My name was posted on the short list in the hall next to my homeroom class and I am a Highland Dancer now. My best friend Theresa made it also, we have been placed in the same dance group. Even though we are only sophomores we are put into the Senior Dance Group A. This group just happens to be the best dance group at Riverview. We have been informed that we will be in the group that gets to perform at the Inaugural Parade if we make it through the cuts for the Parade.

Towards the end of my senior year of high school, I was preparing for the next chapter of my life. I would be attending UC Davis in the summer for a four weeklong orientation program, specifically for first generation college students. This was the first time I would be leaving home by myself to a different country and it was the first time in over eight years that I would be exposed to the American culture. I did not have any roots in any American city nor did I have a so-called “home state.” However, if there was one thing for sure, it was that Germany was my home and it has been for the majority of my life. In this paper, I will be discussing how the following topics in sociology: culture, socialization, and identity are related to my move from Germany to California as well as how I felt during the entire situation.

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths,” (Walt Disney). The overview of my Junior year in high school was, I believe, the best school year so far both in academic and my personal achievements. As a person I had a major growth, I become more active in school in which was a huge step for me, and academically, well I’ve never seen so many A’s since Freshmen year, well that is if I examine only second semester but overall I felt that my grades were better than last year. This year I became a person who is more open-minded, one who sees the outside world, my mind has opened a door which helped me find the inner me that was stuck in for the past 2 years of high school like if I were a bud that has finally opened. I shockley impressed at myself, willing to accept any new challenges this year which truly helped me become a better person in education and personally.

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I had begun High School leaving a bout with depression. I masked it with the “new place, new me” mentality I wanted after the turbulence of middle school. I signed up for Art not knowing what was in store, treating it as another class I had to take. Yet I still ponder what would I be doing if I never stepped into room 9121.

If I had the opportunity to go back in time, I would redo every year of High School. Three of the biggest problems that I faced were: not studying on time, not doing the homework on time, and always cheating off of my best friend 's paper. I would always be afraid to ask the teacher questions because I didn’t want to seem dumb, so instead I would cheat or go on Google and copy down the answers word for word. What I failed to realize was that I was capable of thinking my own thoughts and that everyone has their own unique way of thinking.

As the oldest of the three daughter I was left to take over the house responsibility, due to my mom started working most time in order to keep provide us. Starting my first year in middle school, was already complicated enough not knowing anybody, getting lost, and having to adjust to the new environment around me. And it became more complicated after my dad was sent away from our family. Since we had recently moved to another town. We were still unfamiliar with the city itself and had no family that could help us out. Having left in charge of my two little sister while my mom was at work, I was left to clean, wash and sometimes cook if my mother had not left anything ready the night before. Had to make sure their homework was done and were

"Once again Congratulations to the class of 2014" When I begin to exit the room circulating with applauses, scattered nick names, and screams , it finally registered. This is it! ''This is the first step on the road of adulthood, and all I could think about is how my Art could impact the world. I've always been a creative, and artistic. When I was young growing up my play time was crafting or drawing on the sidewalk with chalk rather than tag or hide and go seek. From cutting fabric from old clothes to making houses out of construction paper. Art has always been a natural skill for me , however as time went on I began to get frustrated in my lack of skills and my urge for further improvement.

It’s my fourth year in High School, and it’s my Senior Year, Class of Twenty-Seventeen. It was going to be a good time of my life because I would be ending this chapter of my life and starting a new one. It was going to be a good year and nothing can get in my way from finishing High School. Thinking back at the beginning of freshman year getting lost, trying to find your way around the new school that you’re at and now we’ve become seniors and only thinking about getting to your first, last day of High School. All you can just think about are doing your senior events during the school year like doing: Senior Field Day, Prom, and especially your Graduation. There’s nothing better than going to your graduation, it only happens once in a life time in High School.

As the spring semester of my senior year of high school began, I still wasn 't sure what I wanted to study when I began college in the fall. I always had been a good problem-solver, and I was fairly certain I wanted to study engineering, but I didn 't know which discipline interested me the most. As my high school graduation date loomed closer, I began to get anxious about not having chosen a major. My parents, both having worked in the oil and gas industry in parts of their careers, encouraged me to give petroleum engineering a shot, so I did. That summer, I attended the LSU geology field camp for freshmen in Colorado Springs, Colo., for six weeks. During that time, I took basic geology courses and learned to appreciate the effect lithology has on oil and gas. I am thankful to have attended this camp, because when August rolled around, I was confident in my choice of majors.

This year, is my last year of highschool. For a very long time I have dreamed of being a senior and finally graduating from high school. I remember when I was a child, I wanted nothing more than to be a big, scary Senior. Now that I am this Senior and the end of the line has come, I am not sure how to feel. I expected to feel ecstatic and amazed as to how far I’ve come. I expected to feel empowered and more of an adult with a plan. Truth is, I don’t feel that way. I have, thankfully, a plan for my future, but I don’t feel like being a senior is as big as a deal as I had made it out to be when I was young. As I grew older, I realized that while getting older is fun, the responsibilities that come with it, are not all fun and games. As a senior, I realized that the real journey will begin once I step onto the college campus. Elementary, middle, and high school, are more like stepping stones for what you will become once the parental controls are turned off. That is why it is important, and what I realized a bit too late, to utilize the time you have now.

Senior year in high school, I thought I had everything figured out. At the time, I was in a program called PSEO where I was able to go to college while I was in high school. Being a first-generation college student I didn’t know how serious this first year of college would affect the rest of my college career. I should have taken that first year seriously. I thought that I would graduate high school and attend a 4-year university and graduate to go to optometry school. As a planning type, I had everything in place. Until my cousin’s grandma passed away, I grew up with them living a walking block away. I was shocked and reflected on my life that I have planned out for myself. After graduating high school packed up my things and headed out west to San Jose, California to move in with my grandparents. I wanted to spend as much time with them while I attended a local community college called DeAnza. I was surrounded by people who could care less about anyone else but themselves. I didn’t fit, but I stayed to be with my grandparents for the rest of the quarter. As the quarter went by so did my bank account, I had no option but to go home to Minnesota. Once I got back to Minnesota I got a job of being an optometric technician working side by side with the doctor. After 6 months of working there I could not see myself as an optometrist. I attended Normandale Community College temporarily until I knew what my next steps would be but I ended up leaving Normandale with an Associate

First semester of senior year is coming to an end. The graduation countdown has started. During my freshman year, I couldn’t imagine myself getting this far. To this day, I challenge myself to everything I can do. Whenever I fall, I get back up. The past few years, I started to see what the real world truly looks like. I learned the real world is difficult, but the only way to get further is to accept the challenge I am given. The world has many interesting things and adventures to explore. As well as, discovering what career path I should follow. However, I have selected three careers I would like to major in. I started looking into film/video editing, physical therapy, and automotive engineering. By selecting these three, I believe I can find my true passion to help the world. Also, what I would love to do my entire life.

As a child, I always struggled in the area reading and writing. I was in the first grade when I came face to face with the issue. I wasn’t prepared like the other kids were in my class, they all seemed to thrive more and more each day in the subject. I didn’t, and nothing the teacher was doing with the subject would stick with me nor did it make me understand better. I felt out of place and different from everyone else in class because I couldn’t do what seemed to be easy for the rest of them. Struggling wasn’t an option for me, I was determined to find a way to catch up with all the others. I wanted to excel and understand reading and writing clearly because I realized that this was very important to have for myself later in the future. By my determination then I changed the way I see reading and writing now.

During my senior year of high school a program called Genesys Works started at my school. Genesys Works is a non-profit organization that teaches high school seniors professionalism. Genesys Works takes upcoming high school seniors through an eight week training program that trains them in Information Technology (IT) or Accounting as well as ways to become a better professional so they will be able to have an internship during their senior year of high school.