My High School

What is significant personal change? This is the question that I have reflected on for weeks now. I pondered if I have experienced significant personal change within my life. I concluded that notable personal change is hard to come by at the tender age of twenty years old. Right now, I cling to the stability of work and school, afraid of the changes to come in the near future. Sure I, like many of my peers, have experienced hardships and hurdles. Of course, I have changed considerably physically and mentally since my early youth. However, were those adjustments of adolescent’s worthy of an entire essay. The question was not if I experienced change but rather if I experience significant or “deep change”. After consulting with a few of my cohorts

Samuel Clemens High School was established during the 1890’s, but it wasn’t always as nice, big, and crowded as it is now.

Houston Elementary School is a small school in a rural area. Many of its students are stricken with poverty, and find it a struggle to cope with day to day life. Teachers and staff do their best to aid the students in this however they can. They modify their instructional methods to where students feel comfortable, they provide food for the students to take home over the weekend, and they do their best to ensure that every student is being cared for.

Boiling Springs High School is an amazing school where everything is accessible to succeed in life, but one factor is missing. The sports teams are ranked high in the county with an amazing track, lacrosse, and baseball team. The school has fantastic classes that contain brilliant students with high GPA’S. What is the last factor that is needed in order for everyone to succeed? If any student tries to get contraception, they will not succeed in obtaining them. Condoms, birth control, and nuvarings are nowhere to be found in a nurse’s office at our school. If anyone tries to stay healthy while having sexual interactions, they will be unfortunate.

Saint Martin de Porres High School in Cleveland, Ohio is a co-ed catholic college preparatory institution on a mission to provide a quality education and invaluable work experience to inner city youth. The vision Saint Martin de Porres High School has for each student is to attend a college or university. Thus far their goal has been achieved; however the school does not guarantee your student a baccalaureate degree. Saint Martin students usually fall under the category of first-generation college students. Their lack of knowledge and experience about higher education sets them at a disadvantage when it comes to academic success and graduation completion. Formal research has yet to be conducted on the success of Saint Martin de Porres High School students. Due to personal ties with Saint Martin de Porres High School, it is necessary to look into these issues to preserve the longevity of Saint Martin and to ensure the success of its graduates beyond high school graduation.

John F. Kennedy once said, “Change is the law of life.” Change is the universal theme in the realistic novel, Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson. To start, I began to witness people I have been close to for years, transform into totally different people. My former friends began to hang in different groups and forget I even exist. The sad truth is that change began to challenge me too. My frightening experience with an older guy adjusted me into a new person. I was depressed and the ‘weird’ girl that no one liked. This book helps you see the scary truth of high school. Different is scary when you start going to a new school or when you walk into a huge lunchroom and have no one to sit with. People who we have known forever convert into people

I’ve changed a lot in many ways and didn’t change at all in others. I’ve always been pretty flexible with people. I’ve always been able to enjoy the company of different types of people because I like many different things myself. I would tell myself not to worry about who I am and just enjoy things that happened day by day. The future is the future and it will happen whether I prepare for it ten years in advance or not at all. I spent too much time scare about what college opportunities I would have. Now, I know there are more possibilities than I can imagine and I can do anything I set my mind to.

“High school graduates everywhere are taking an important step towards the future”. Here at Rocky Mount High school we’ve had one of our own alumni’s, Chuck Robins, who is now being appointed by Cisco Systems, as its next CEO (Murray). Robins will be ending the 20-year run of John Chambers. Many alumni’s from Rocky Mount High have gone into a bright future. You’re probably wondering, why does Rocky Mount High have successful graduates? Some would answer with our general school quote, “We are a community enhancing lives through learning”(Murray). Rocky Mount High is a substantial high school based off of our well-achieved academic school programs, significant athletics as well as positivity throughout the school.

I never truly had a formal education with regard to composition. My high school was labeled a “national exemplary” high school but I quickly learned it was only because the graduation requirement was higher based only on the number of credits. The credits were easy to get, and I ran out of math classes that would challenge me by 10th grade. Most teachers simply expected the work to be complete, and the content was irrelevant. I hope and expect the readers of this content will see my growth throughout this course.

My biggest transformation started happening my senior year. I was more motivated and strong minded. My mind was finally made up to pursue a career in Early Childhood & Education. I studied hard my entire senior year and made good grades. After my high school graduation a year later I enrolled in Ogeechee Technical

How i changed in high school was little help and time but time will tell the rest of my high school years.

I only have three to five close friends that I talk to on a daily basis because I feel like anymore than that is too much to handle. I don’t care what people think of me anymore, I’m not trying to impress anyone. And now to me what changed the most was my values. Now I have family, school, work, friends, sports and social media. A huge change in mindset. I didn’t realize my family, school, and work where the most important, because being responsible is the right thing to do. I would never have thought about that four years ago. After I realized what was truly more important my work ethic started to become better. I worked harder at school and I went and got a job. Instead of worrying about girls, sports, and other non-important things. I focused on school. I got my grades up, payed attention, turned in assignments on time, and got better grades. I got into a vocational do CAD and along with that my goal after high school was not going to college to play football. I plan on going to college to be an engineer or to join a branch of

An effective life begins on the inside. One must be aware of themselves. Change is a key facet of learning and personal growth. The paradoxical theory of change: personal change tends to occur when we become aware of what we are as opposed to trying to become what we are not. To me, this theory of change means that we should beware of our strengths and our weakness and work to change our weakness to strengths not to change our self to fit the “norm” of society. We do not need to change to be like everyone else but to better ourselves. There are ten rules of change. The ten rules include: all behaviors are complex, change is frightening, change must be positive, being is easier than becoming, slower is better, know more, do better, change requires structure, practice is necessary, new behaviors must be protected, and small successes are big. Too many people change is intimidating. I have not experienced that many environmental changes in my life. Coming to college is the first time that I am living on my own and not in the only town I’ve ever lived in. So far I am pretty adaptable to environmental changes, but I am not as successful with internal changes. I am comfortable with who I am, but I know there are many weakness and behaviors that need to be changed to have a better life.

This school year my 8th grade class has five SOLs. One challenge facing students today is SOLs. Students can overcome this challenge by paying attention in class, doing their homework, and staying out of trouble. Listing in class is very important if you want to pass the SOLs. You need to know what is going on in the class so you don't get behind on class work. If you are constantly talking in class you may be interrupting others from learning what they need learn.

My life as a 8th grader isn't the best because the drama sucks. But besides all the drama 8th grade is pretty fun. I have sorta good grades so far, but we aren't that far into the school year so. I met one of my favorite teachers this year. He is really nice but I annoy him a lot. His name is Mr. Stevens he is my home room teacher. I don't really like math that much, it can be hard and it can be easy. I just don't like it. And science is pretty fun I can say, we just recently did a design an experiment thing. It was kinda fun but boring. In social studies we are doing this class thing where you have to pay for rent to sit in a desk and stuff. It is sorta fun but stupid at the same time. In language we are doing this and it is soooooooooo