My Senior Moment Essay

I casually walked through the park on a crisp summer day with morning dew smell still lingering in the air. Nobody is out during this time as usual. Only people awake during this hour are morning joggers and dog walkers. Of course, there was also a mother who was playing with her toddler. She catches her chocolate-brown son and tickles him, and they laugh and trip and fall together onto the floor and laugh harder. I walked by just to say hello to them as they waved back to me. I had set myself to wake up every day at this time and start running laps around the neighborhood to help lose weight. I recall running to every single spot in town on the blocks from Lang to Richland Lane were buildings in wild assortment: two drugstores, Henry Clay Frick's mansion with

Most students entering into freshman year are nervous. There entering into a big new school full of opportunity and mystery. They venture out into the unknown with the fears of getting lost, not being able to make friends or having no one to sit with at lunch. My freshman year experience was very different. Instead of walking into a new school I entered the same school I had been at for the previous 10 years. I still had recess, snack time and gym class. While all my friends left to start a new adventure in life, I was stuck in middle school. Although tough at some points my year turned out to be life changing.I was able to try new things by stepping outside of my comfort zone. I also learned to thrive in new leadership opportunities. This year was a major transition in my life and learned new things about myself I never else would have learned. In this year I developed skills that have impacted my life up until this point and plan to use in my journey into college and far

What I am thinking about senior is that I find is easier than last year, because last year I use to get a lot of homework and a lot of tests and quizzes, but this year is kind of easy, but you will still have stress about some of your classes.

Junior year was full of many new experiences. We were now classified as upper classmen! Just like any of the other years in high school this year had just as many ups and downs. One of the main stresses in eleventh grade was the SAT. For sure one of the scariest things that I have ever had to do. All of the preparation going into it and the amount of studying made me feel as if I wasn’t going to have a brain by the time the testing was over. I took college and career readiness, which really helped prepare me for what was to come. By this time in high school I had already had my job for a little over a month, so I already knew what to expect once school started. I am thankful enough that at my job you get to leave at seven because I hear many

Starting off the year went well for me, there was a few ups and downs but I managed to hold on tightly to complete this year. Junior year was certainly a tough challenge for me , I took AP English Language, based on all of my classes this was the most challenging to me. The course was not the blame and certainly it was not the teacher, the blame was on me. I blame myself for not putting time and effort into my work. What I believe AP English Language was about utilizing your sense of thought and putting a lot of effort into

Having a job and being a student is not an easy task, you need to find the time to do both in a way that it doesn’t take over your life. Therefore, I compose time for myself by doing methods that I enjoy doing, like playing video games and taking a short nap after a long day of work before heading to school.

When I reached senior year, things began to really improve from there, since I was no longer the girl that everyone automatically assumed to be a freshman. I was able to attend my classes to greet some of the faces that I already knew, and take on my last year knowing that it would all be over soon. By then my school spirit had began to sound audible, but it didn 't overshadow how I felt about the nearly approaching day of graduation.

Senior year has been great so far. I got my first job as a paid intern for the City of Sacramento’s Parks Department, I earned straight A’s my first semester, received a new phone, and turned 18. All of this is great but it doesn’t compare to what I learned and experienced during my senior project. I felt as though I learned so much but there is always something more I could do and learn.

Senior year is turning out really great but still stressful because of getting my PTP done in time. Since the last couple years I Frittered on getting it done, thinking I have time to finish it but now I'm struggling to get it done. For example I worked on my PTP everyday after school with a teacher who can help me. But as for classes it's turning out better then what I expected, because I thought I'd be failing Algebra 2 by now. The things I'm doing well on for me to graduate is passing my classes even though I only have 3 important classes to take. The things that I need to adjust in my classes is asking the teacher questions if I need help also to pay more attention in class instead of being distracted by my peers in class. I have to make

Walking into school on the first day of senior year is bitter-sweet, its academically easier, but even when not in school it’s still difficult, having college applications to turn in, jobs, and waiting for graduation. So far, senior year has been fun and eventful, right after junior year ended summer kicked off with the senior bonfire. Senior sunrise was fun, even though the sun didn’t rise and it was freezing, but it was fun because of the people I was with. Balancing academics, school functions, and work is hard, but in the end it’s all worth it because of the memories that are made during this time that’ll make it all worthwhile. There are more activities to come for senior year that involve everyone and graduation is coming up in less than a

Junior year was pretty much back to normal. I was now accustomed to the new people, new faces, new teachers, and new surroundings. I really enjoyed taking my second year of chemistry, precalculus and biology while I did not enjoy American Cultural Studies. I am more of a science/math person, not so much history and english and two straight hours about history was not exactly what I looked forward to every morning. I got through it though and enjoyed after school more.

This year has definitely been a roller coaster. From the first day there have been some good days, some bad, some easier than others and days I didn’t think I could finish the year. Not everything was has I hoped it would be, I lost a lot of important people in my life; not so much physically but more so emotionally. Friends departed different ways and family became a more difficult to be around. Aside from all of that, I can reflect on senior year and say that my life has changed for the better, simply because I have matured into a more, loving, caring and manageable young lady.

Surprisingly, I did not plan to be an engineer; it was my Dad’s last wish before he passes away. However, I started to love engineering when I worked on my third college year project for the blind. When my team mate and I were done with the project, which was a tactile computer screen for the blind displaying the text in Braille codes, I felt that this was my aha moment. Since then, I volunteered in various projects for the blind and worked for about a year in a company that develops applications for them in Arabic. Unfortunately, the care for the Arab blind is so minor and the governments marginalize them. They live in terrible conditions, isolated from the society, and even in their education, they are restricted

Graduation is an exciting time in a person’s life, especially a high school graduation. When I think of family and friends gathering together to celebrate a joyous occasion, I feel I accomplished my strongest goal. It never occurred to me that graduation would be the end of my youth and the start of adulthood. Graduating from high school was an influential event that gave me an altered outlook on my existence. Life before graduation, preparing for graduation day, and commencement day overwhelmed me for reality.

Stepping upon a simple stage was the best thing I could have ever done. Overseeing the multitude that was there to witness my every word, every tremble, every emotion, and every heart beat, was then that I realized that the sentiment was real. It was essentially the end of time and I could not bear to hold back what I no intentions of doing. Cry. Tears of joy darted down my face as I walked across the stage and received my ultimate gift. With fancy inscription, my gift was entitled “Class of 2009”. I had just graduated.