Obstacles : The Personal Experience In Middle School

I am writing because I have some advice I would like to offer you based on my own experience. I’m writing this letter to help you get prepared for middle school and survive middle school. There are three ways you're going to survive middle school.

So, you want to know how to survive middle school? Well I can help you. Being a middle school student, you pick up a couple tricks along the way. Then sometimes you can even find or hear tips, now a lot of the tips and tricks usually come from a teacher, but you will discover some on your own that will make Middle School a bit easier. Throughout my time as a middle school student, I have definitely found so many tips and tricks. Now some tips and tricks are just plain sense, but you don’t always utilize these tips.

Regardless the situation or where one is in life, everyone will always run into obstacles.. It all depends on how we choose to learn from it, such as others’ may call it “learning from our mistakes”. Eventually as an individual we all grow up over the years with a different mind set on how we view things and life will throw some crazy things at us. There will be many hard things that someone will go through but they’ll overcome it and that’ll make them stronger as a person. After going through an obstacle in life, it can give people a new perspective on life and give them the opportunity to change things for the better good.

From my experience, surviving middle school takes a mixture of luck, naive fearlessness, and an aggressive number of colorful plastic binders. I started my first day of fifth grade a jumbled mess of nerves, anxious about making friends and doing well in class, and inexplicably dressed head-to-toe in red, white, and blue swag my mom got when the Summer Olympics were in Atlanta. I mean, my backpack matched my shoelaces, which matched my pants and my shirt. I might have even had a hat. A hat. A precisely matching hat. That I wore all day. Needless to say, I was not a particularly cool child. I studied hard, had a core group of equally nerdy friends, and constantly worried about whether I was doing the right thing or, perhaps more accurately, becoming the right thing. Was I not studying hard enough to get into college? Or maybe studying too hard, missing out on my youth? Would I grow into my teeth one day? Would my skin eventually stop looking like greasy peanut brittle?

As I went through 1-9 grade school I finally found grit. Going to St. Mary’s during 1-6 grade school getting up at 6:30 every morning just wanting to hit the snooze button so I could get that extra hour of sleep in. After getting ready for school, I would get on the bus, three stops later we would pick up these annoying foster kids that gave me a headache every day because they would shut their mouths that I would have to push through school with. Then building up all the energy sitting in 1-2 classrooms the whole day waiting for recess so I could let it all out. Since I pushed through those challenges, I was able to move on to middle school. During my two years of middle school three out of the five days of school, I would get up at 5:30 and

Everybody has their breaking points. At a young age I was forced to endure mine; only to find that there wasn’t much of a break, but more of a point. With puberty, came a variety of changes: physically, mentally, and perspectivally. As a child, sexual abuse is not fathomable for many, and in most cases, are utterly traumatizing. Entering middle school in the midst of the abuse brought countless days and nights dedicated to realizing the situation that I was in was, indeed, perpetually toxic and morally wrong. Although this was a traumatic experience, I chose, with great pride, to discuss my knowledge that I acquired during this time.

Once again I found myself at the bottom of the food chain entering 5th grade. I had just moved back to Eureka as my mom realized she wanted to be closer to family, and I remember how scared I was. I came in the middle of the school year yet again, so there I sat in the library as I waited for my teacher to come grab me. I remember seeing familiar faces from the prior year pass by me on their way to first hour. I waited patiently, still no teacher had come to claim me for their homeroom. I realized I had been forgotten. What a great way to start off the new year... not. Finally a teacher came and got me and laughed about the fact that I was forgotten, which I failed to find as funny as she did but oh well. Looking around my homeroom I anticipated seeing all the same faces, quickly I noticed that there were A LOT of new faces,

Coming to middle school from elementary school is a stressful time, but despite this fact, learning still needs to get done. This book here allows children to face middle school math, specifically what will be required from them from the start, while also covering all of the math standards and review for the Common Core State Standards. I would deem this difficulty as easy in comparison to what the students will experience in their math courses over their time in secondary education.

When I hear the word “survival”, I think of someone who has made it through the impossible or conquered a near death experience; but that isn't all that it means. According to the the Merriam Webster dictionary, “A survivor is a person who copes well with difficulties in their life.” Moving from elementary school to middle school taught me many new characteristics such as how to be more independent, responsible, and more open to changes.

Harry Potter, Junie B. Jones, Narnia, Lemony Snicket, Hunger Games, Lord of the Rings, Goosebumps, Magic Tree House, and the Boxcar Children: Popular book series that most kids get into. I never did. Ever since school required mandatory reading, I perceived books as hassles. School effectively turned me off of reading for pleasure. Going into middle school, where students have regular book reports and summer reading, I faced a challenge. To make it by I had to learn to live with books, as they played an integral part to my career as a student. However, my current state of mind labeled reading a hassle and wanted nothing to do with it, necessitating change. Transitioning from elementary to middle school, I matured both physically and intellectually.

I was about to face my greatest challenge in my new life. How to fit in with people in middle school. Arriving in America was already hard to adjust, what more can it be with my school life. It was in August when my school started. I was already nervous, and I haven’t even step foot from this mysterious school that I’m about to spend 2 years of my life.

An obstacle that I have encountered throughout my lifetime, specifically my time in high school, has been pushing myself to be the very best. Even though I feel as though I am very self-motivated, it takes a great deal of effort to actually execute the things that I have been given. For example, we all know how hard it is to avoid procrastination, during high school if you were to ask any one I knew, I would always have my work completed before the deadline. Some may call it overachieving, but when I get a load of work that needs to be completed, I like to get it done immediately or I feel like I have too much on my plate and I’m unable to handle all of it.

When I started Middle School, I was nothing close to the social butterfly I am today. In fact for my entire first two years of middle school, I didn't have much of an identity. Or friends. I wasn't a part of any clique, or involved in any clubs. All I did was keep my mouth shut and blend in. I literally had no passions, no ideals, values, I just followed the crowd. But as my middle school experience went on, some drastic changes happened to me. And no, not puberty. Here is how it began.

In middle school, you experience many changes. You will or may have had to get used to seven classes, seven teachers, seven subjects, and seven times more classmates you interact with up until you graduate high school. Growing up in a very sheltered environment made me different from majority of my peers in middle school. My mother always taught me to be ambitious and live on my own terms. In all of my five years of elementary school I was carefree and never insecure, until my big transition into middle school which changed my personality and views of myself.

Entering the high school as a freshman is a whole new experience. There’s many new opportunities as a student. If it’s either in your classes, clubs, sports, or school activities. The transition between the middle school to the high school was very smooth for me. All of my teachers prepared me well for entering this new stage in my live. I believe I’m a very hardworking person. I like to be organized and have all my things in place. School is one of my main priorities at the moment. I want to have the best future as possible, go to a great college, have a good home and a happy family. I value spending time with my family and friends. Growing up with your family and doing all the things and routines that they do, really shapes the type of person you are and the one you’ll be in the future. I look up to my parents very much. My dad and mom are very hardworking and they want the best for my brother, my sister and I. I really enjoy traveling and experiencing all new different types of cultures, foods, and music. I believe culture is such an important part of what makes a person who they are. My family’s ethnicity is Colombian. Everything about Colombia makes you feel so heartwarming, and it’s such a beautiful country. Traveling just lets you escape from reality and makes you feel like a whole different person. It helps you take a breath and relax. Making the best of your time is really my go-to. You never know what is ahead of you, so just do what you enjoy and love. Get out