My Senior Year Is Ruined

It’s a normal day at school during recess in the middle of spring; the boy begins to start a game of tag with the rest of his classmates. The kids began to form miniature games trying to figure out who will be it first. “It” is the person who has to tag the other classmates in the game. They’ve chosen their person and now it’s game time. The joy they brought amongst each other, laughing and screaming, “you’re it” to their peers. They ran, pushed and scrambled all over the playground. Then all of a sudden a boy is pushed a little too hard and he tumbles on the floor. He rolls twice on the cement scraping his knees. He looks around and his friend gives him a helping hand by pulling him up allowing him to dust his self off. He then attempts to run again and feels a breeze from the wind burning his knee. The skin has apparently been broke open. His knee is red and starting to bleed. Now his blood vessels, platelets and cells in that area are damaged causing external bleeding. He now goes into shock because he looks at his own blood and starts to cry walking back to where the

A: Well according to USA Today, a junior stated “I do know that he wasn’t feeling too good prior to the hit and seemed tired,” (USA Today, 2015). I would explain that our policies prevent anyone from going back on the field after an injury without authorization from a doctor. In this case we were not aware of any injuries prior to the game. If we had known of his injuries, we would have gotten him medical attention right

Junior year; considered the most difficult year of high school. Junior year wants to make senior year as relaxing and stress free as possible. Part of this preparation: community service and then writing a paper and making a presentation surrounding that service. Kennedy calls this project the integrated service learning (ISLE) project. For my ISLE project, I built houses in New Orleans through Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization. I found that when hurricane Katrina and the Levis broke it left a tremendous amount left in its wake. Since the trip would knock all my service hours out in a week and I became interested in the project I went and worked on houses and learned a great deal culture and poverty

Few minutes later, one teacher started to faint and fell in the middle of audience. The game stopped and nurse came into the gym. He wasn't breathing at all, so he was sent to a hospital. The game kept going with my teammate and remaining teachers.”

I kept thinking, “Come on Arika, you have to get up and finish this game,” but I physically couldn’t. I finally rolled onto my back and opened my eyes. All I could see was the blue sky and the smell of dirt and sweat on my skin. Now at this time I can see my coach squatting above me, but my eyes kept fluttering like crazy. My body was numb and my head was pounding so hard that I felt like my brain was going to explain out of my head. Finally I got to sit up. My head was still spinning. Tim, the athletic trainer, and my coach helped me stand up and walk off the

The trainer then started cutting off all equipment. Once the ambulance arrived, an IV was put into his arm but the pressure applied to Mr. Malarchuk’s neck was never left without pressure until he was in doctors’ hands at the local hospital.

Heading from middle school to high school can seem somewhat intimidating to the average teenager. No more will you be in the safety of those peers you grew up with as you head off to the larger high school that allows you to blend in with grades 9th through 12th. Many first time freshman year high school students are filled with mixed emotions on this next chapter in their life. Today I am sharing some tips on how to survive freshman year at high school so that you can help your teenager relax and breeze through the first days of being a high school freshman.

I never would have thought that ninth grade year would be the toughest year of my life. I went from being able to do all kinds of physical activities to being on crutches. I was on crutches two weeks longer than my surgeon expected. Even after the crutches nothing seemed the same. The best way for me to get back to my old self was to attend physical therapy sessions twice a week. Even to this day I can feel a part of me is missing. I would soon begin to get my mobility back as my therapy sessions progressed throughout several weeks.

My senior year is so trash but it started being trash like last year so. First trash thing I moved so I had to leave all the people I enjoyed being around. I knew these people weren't my forever friends but the time we had together was great. I lost things like being in the yearbook and my lettermen. I feel like I didn't enjoy my year because everything I wanted was gone at once. Everything I had planned had to change and the people around me that grew up with in school I wouldn't talk too much anymore. Jefferson has plenty of kids who are stuck up and they hate people from winder so yes perfect. I'd rather have been home schooled and look and my parents face all day. So no this wasn't like in the movies this actually sucks and I'm so very

This football game is a big deal; the scouts are coming to watch him and his teammates. It is Owen Michael’s intrinsic desire to continue to play football in college, so he hopes the scouts will like him. The game already started and his teammate passes him the ball. He catches it, and as his foot had traction with the ground, he ran until his opponents tackled him to the ground. As everyone else stood up, Owen was still on the ground. Panic ensued as people realized that he was injured.The coach was in distraught and quickly called the medic over to Owen. Owen reacted to the situation with intractability; he waved them off saying he’s fine and that he could continue playing the game. The coach said he will not able to, but Owen entreated the

On a sunny afternoon at the school playground, Randle and Jim were playing on the monkey bars. Randle tried to skip a rung, missed it and fell to the ground. That fall resulted in a broken wrist. The very next day, Randle sat on the school bench with his arm in a cast and watched Jim play on the monkey bars. Suddenly Jim decides he is going to try to skip one of the bars. There’s no way he’d miss and fall too. Within seconds, Jim’s hand slips off the bar. Randle watched unable to protect his friend. As Jim begins to fall he tries to put his arms out to brace his fall and just as he hits the ground, pain shoots up his arm like an electric shock. In no time a doctor was putting a cast on Jim’s arm and told him he had to take it easy for 12

Have you ever been doing something where you fell and it knocked your breath out? It hit him like that when he realized that it was all over. It was like if the world just kind of stopped, it seemed to get quite, not one bone in his body was moving, he was so shocked that he had even stopped breathing. Right when it happen sitting next to his friend that had been playing tackle football with him since the first day.

Senioritis is quite interesting, being a word that someone came up with to explain their lack of will to do anything during their second semester of your last year of high school. The dictionary definition, via Google, is: “a supposed affliction of students in their final year of high school or college, characterized by a decline in motivation or performance.” It can be said that it is a decreased motivation to do anything school-related, or just laziness. Senioritis is a struggle, but anyone can pull through if they really want to.

College is a new stage in life with a new environment and maybe a different lifestyle. This makes it a prime opportunity to take control of a healthy lifestyle. Who would want to have the dreaded Freshman 15 (or even more)?

It's impossible to think about things that have significantly impacted my life without considering my mother's diagnosis with cancer. It has changed the way I approach nearly everything in my life, and has led to other significant experiences. She was diagnosed the beginning of my Sophomore year, so I've had to balance home and school obligations nearly my entire high school career. I had to take responsibility and start acting more maturely, whether I wanted to or not. My mother suddenly couldn't do many things she used to be able to do, and as my father travels every week I had to step up and fill the void. Through doing this, I've become a lot more independent, and gained better clarity into my priorities and what I want out of my life.