My High School Spring Fling

The ideas that Steve Lawhead presents in his poem “The sun goes down on summer” reflect my own feeling and thoughts as I begin school this August. For example, in second stanzas of the poem he says “Instead, the day rush headlong into change and I feel like nothing’s ever going to be same.” This related to me because there are many things that I hope they will never change. Just like wheat he says, even though I know I can’t stop it from changing. I still wish form the bottom of my heart that they will never change; because that really will make my life much easier. Later in the poem he says “I’ll look real hard for my last-year’s friend to get me from one scrambled class to another, through halls crawling with

For example, the summer session, in comparison to the winter session, is a symbolic interpretation of a separate peace. The summer has an easygoing, relaxed environment with indulgent teachers. Teachers who are capable of laughing off or excusing careless and wild behaviors. “I think we reminded them of what peace was like, we boys of sixteen.” Gene muses that the boys being untouched by the war is what allows the teachers to be so tolerant. The students were “a sign of the life the war was fought to preserve.” When Finny falls and breaks his leg, it marks a literal and symbolic end to the summer session. As Gene puts it, “Peace had deserted Devon.” What took its place was an onslaught of strict rules and talk of war and enlisting. By using

The snow had all but melted away and the smell of spring filled the air. Just a few months of school were left; it was my eighth grade year. Much preparation and months of work had been done to get ready for the last dance of the year. It was the last dance of our middle school career and the excitement was building.

The United States is known throughout the world to be a place in which there are many cultures and customs mixing and colliding. One thing that each culture has in abundance is rites of passage, whether it is Births, Bat Mitzvahs, Quinces, or graduation. Each right of passage is an event that signifies a transition in a person’s life. Senior Prom is a rite of passage for young men and women that is indicative of their transition from teenagers to young adults. It is meant to be a celebration of the high school experience; the last hurrah. A gathering of friends who have spent four years of their adolescence together, figuring out who they are as

High school Commencement in the United States is a tradition like no other. Every June, high school seniors dress in their Sunday best and head to the tried-and-true ritual. Parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles swarm to secondary institutions with their cameras in hand. With the sea of hats and gowns, the graduating class is unified and united. Over the recent decades, Commencements across the United States have incorporated cords and stoles. These emphasize both communal and individual achievements throughout students’ secondary education and their community. At Chisago Lakes High School (CLHS), these achievements are recognized at Commencement with a variety of cords. Students who participate in the National

The homecoming dance is usually open to students in any grade. While some schools make this gathering casual, others provide the option to dress formally. The dance that took place at South Walton was themed “A Night in New Orleans”, which entailed Mardi Gras. Specifically, purple, green and gold colors covered the room and every student had a miraculous night to remember. Students will typically spend their nights overwhelmed with enjoyment, dancing to their favorite hits and engaging with their

When something is a tradition, it is less likely to be challenged as people have grown accustomed to it. No one in the story has moved to end it because the majority of the people in town swear by the tradition and think it could be bad luck to end it. This evident by Old Man Warner stating, “Pack of crazy fools, listening to the young folks, nothing’s good enough for them...there's always been a lottery.” (Jackson 423). A similar tradition known as college hazing is a ritual among college fraternities. The hazing process involves a student being humiliated and punished in some form (hazing). The students participate in the hazing because it has been a tradition among college fraternities for generations. The victim must comply with the hazing process if they want to join the fraternity even if it means a result of great

This experience truly defined who I became and who I am now as a leader. I

Throughout my high school years, I gave myself many opportunities and challenges to demonstrate my worth as a leader. Of all these positions, the one I take pride in the most would be taking the lead role of directing a non-profit ACT organization. Together with my classmate, we had founded the organization to which I took charge of after he left to attend college. During my role as president of the ACT organization, my responsibilities included tutoring, finding teachers, organizing sign ups, as well as procuring space to hold classes.

Summer – Summer symbolized the fun times all of the boys had in the Devon School. Summer was before the gossip of the close proximity of the war, before the talk of enlistment, before Leper lost his sanity, and most of all, it was before Gene made Phineas fall from the tree.

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.

Six families come to Central College and spend the day interacting and playing with its students. They do all of this at The Big Event, put on by Central’s Dance Marathon team. Katlyn Wells, one of Centrals Dance Marathon’s team leaders says, “The Big Event this year we held in Graham Annex and we have probably, by the time we had all the students there I want to say there were probably somewhere between 40 and 50 dancers. We had six families and five our kiddo show up and it was a day filled with music, dancing, we had some different in structures come in And and teach different styles of dancing, lots of food, lots of activities, coloring and playing baseball with the kids” (personal communication, April 13, 2017). These students are throwing this event to get to know and celebrate the children and families the have dedicated their time and effort raising money and awareness for (K. Wells).

For me however, fall marks the beginning, not January. Fall is when summer leaves us and a new school year begins. I shed my summer shorts for a backpack weighed down with books and make an effort to show off what’s left of my fading summer tan. Fall is when all-nighters are pulled and teachers find a way to drown us in homework. “Homework” by Allen Ginsberg seems to depict the stress a new school year causes. Many students struggle to “find the off switch” in their personal lives (Students Lack School-life Balance,Vicki Abeles) during a hectic school year, including myself. Fall not only brings unwarranted stress but a potentially golden opportunity to redefine myself. If I opt to do so, fall affords me the chance to cast myself in a different light to my peers, my friends, and my teachers. For me, fall brings both immense potential but also robs me of the carefreeness of

Im sitting here looking outside my window, at the trees while thinking "What am I going to say for this essay?" As it is my fourth time writing a high school essay, I'm nervous as you may know from the way the opening of this essay sounds. I currently attend William L Dickinson high school, which was never my plan. Last year I was an eighth grader at Academy I thinking that my school name would help me get into a good high school but I was wrong. I've always wanted to go to County Prep High School, but unfortunately last year in April, everything changed. Thats when I got my big rejection letter. I have really bad anxiety so waiting for the letter was a pain. Then finally "We regret to inform you" the five dreaded words that every applicant

Homecoming has been a tradition since the early 1900’s. It’s an event held at colleges and high schools where alumni come watch a football game and the community comes together. Alumni from all over the country come to reminisce and meet with old friends. It is a very important event for the students, the alumni, and the school.