Personal Narrative: My Freshman Year Of High School

Freshman Year and Senior Year are both very stressful years of high school. Freshman year I made new friends because I was at a new school with some new people. I also tried to make sure my grades stayed up because now that I’m in high school I have to start thinking what I want to do when I graduate, what college I want to go. I’ll have to keep my grades up now because I want to be able to get into a good college and I will be stressing out because I still don’t know what I want to do when I graduate from high school or where, as most of the other will be too.

Freshman year I was shy and never really stepped out of my comfort space. I thought I was prepared for high school. I signed up for two honors class thinking that they would be hard but I knew I could figure them out. Reality was quickly thrown into my face.

The beginning of the year wasn’t exactly as I envisioned as an eighth grader. I thought that going to high school would be some life changing experience with new people and more privileges. It turned out that it wasn’t that life changing so much as perspective changing and there was more work, more stress, and privileges tend to come with a price. My first day left me nervous, lost, confused, stressed, overwhelmed, and tired by the end of the day. The first thing I did when I got home that day

In all my years of school, I never really enjoyed reading or writing. In elementary and middle school, I didn't hate it but I didn't look forward to it. Although, the books we had to read were not bad and I did enjoy some of them. Once high school came along, all the assignments got harder and my dislike for reading and writing grew stronger. Overall, I would say my Sophomore year was the worst but not because of the assignments but something else bigger than that.

Coming into High School, I had no idea what to expect. I was at a point of just starting to have to exert effort into studying and preparing for classes. Halfway through freshman year, I have now discovered more about myself, and how I must work in order to sucede.

Junior year, we finally had a place to live in. My older brother moved out, his friend and his family moved out, and my younger brother had decided to go live my dad. Life seemed that it was going to finally settle down and be easy for me. That was when I opened that letter saying my rank and decided that I finally had the ability to put in the work that school needed. Throughout junior year I pushed myself as hard as I could. I learned how to study, I took as many AP classes as I could, I put my entire focus into school. In a year and a half (including first semester senior year) I went up 8 places in rank while the overall population of school grew. My GPA went up .7 of a point. My grades were better than ever. While all of my friends were

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You are 14 and never have time for love because of cheer and school. At school your were always thought to be the girl who was always studying for the test the next day or tutoring the jocks. But now you've reached a new chapter of life sophomore year in high school. The next three years you were determined to be the most popular girl at your new school but still be the valedictorian of your class.

During my first year, I have learned that there are many positive aspects of high school. I have 6 minutes to go to my classes, and some days I get to do whatever my heart desires. I was able to join class council, and find that I desire to be class president one day. High school has helped me get out of my comfort zone, and realize that I can be a very good leader. I have learned that I want to pursue a medical career, and help others later in my life. High school has helped me to realize who I am, and who I want to be.

Leading into my sophomore year of high school, band was the center of my life. Providing social acceptance and a sense of purpose, I could always count on the fine art to get me through the drudgery of high school. Everything seemed to effortlessly go right. I naively believed my desires would always be provided for, as I was somehow the special (albeit, shy) exception. With this idea, I felt invincible going into my first serious audition. Unknown to me, this simple, six hour event, provided the stage on which my perspective would completely change.

I never had a freshmen year. The closest I came to a freshmen year was my sophomore year. For the most part is a blur, like a dog running through a picture, blurred. Or maybe blocked. I could imagine that my sophomore year was pretty much like everyone else's freshmen year. The same awkwardness was still there just a year older perhaps. The younger me played at least five different types of sports, year round I was in sports. After my middle school career, I said, to hell with it, and quit it all together. I played no sport, or games, in the 10th grade. The impact was good, and kind of bad at the same time. My grades slipped a couple of times, now and then, and I feel like I would have made more friends, if I joined a sport, sooner than I

Throughout middle school and my first two years of high school I approached my education with a very negative attitude, I possess a 3.079 GPA, and 1030 SAT (which I am re taking) for my school this is below average. My first two years of high school I never did homework, studied, or even really got involved. This is one of my biggest regrets. During my first two years of school I was getting Bs, and Cs in classes I could have easily been receiving As in if I tried harder. It was not until my junior year when it hit me that college was quickly approaching and schools I dreamed of going to were mostly likely unrealistic. Rather than dwelling on my poor educational decisions I decided to take action, and try harder, and study longer. This has

My first year of high school was filled with adventures and difficulties throughout the years. Comparing to my other years, I took challenges, such as taking on sports while finding the time for my school works and achieving my goals. However, I was able to find the way and fight through my freshman year.

9th grade didn’t go by fast at all and it’s like so hard and different from Middle School. I have to wake up early and see people I hate seeing. I don’t like school and it’s already too long. I also still have 3 more years to go and that seems so long. Then all my sisters done graduated by now. I just wanna stay home all day but I know that’s not gonna help anything. Then it’s all the long essay’s and the 10 page projects. High school is so stressful you guys don’t know how many times i cried over school. Then when you miss so many days it’s so hard to catch up and when you turn in assignments your grade only goes up a little. I had to go to summer school my ninth grade year and it was hot and annoying. First thing

Life has its ups and downs. For freshman year, it was the same. I had more freedom and activities. However, homework and marching band was a rough transition. Coming from middle school, I knew there was going to be more homework. But, the fall semester changed me like a drill sergeant during boot camp. Having marching band take my nights up and having to do geometry homework at 10:00pm made me exhausted for the first couple months of freshman year.