Personal Narrative: My Life After High School

High school, for many, is commonly termed as “the greatest four years of your life.” It is stopping for coffee with your friends while listening to your favorite songs on the way to school in the morning. It is staring at the clock waiting for the bell to ring to finally go to your favorite class of the day. It is staying after a long day of class for meetings, clubs, or sports, or it is spending Friday nights with your best friends performing under the football field lights. High school can be many different experiences for different people, but most importantly, for me, it was learning essential values of life while shaping me into the person that I am today.

My high school experience was overall a mixture of being scared and growing to become who I am today. When I was in my first years of high school, it was just high school nothing more. I had seen teachers as teachers and friends as friends. I just

High school is such a different experience for everyone. We all take different paths and learn new things everyday. We learn trigonometry, how to fix cars, how to dissect a frog, and different laws in the world. The things we learn in class are very important, but along the way of expanding our educations, one will tend to learn a lot about themselves and others. For me, I feel that my high school experience was not ideal and I constantly complain about the outcome. Looking back in grade eight, I had a different plan for me. It took me up until this year to realize that although my experience was not something worth bragging about, I've learned a lot about who I am. I've learned to take chances, be patient, and

\Mostly, the world went by so, so slowly. It took everyone ages to get even a simple sentence out. They all walked like they had nowhere they could need to be, and every time they ate it was a whole big production. Then they all conked out for eight hours a night-- just had to check out and bid the world a fond farewell. Peter found it much more efficient to take quick naps throughout the day, mostly between people saying "um" and the eternity until the next word. This left him free for a bit of late night sight-seeing. Something about the dark made people believe no one else could possibly be watching.

If someone would have told me five years ago that I would be going to college to become a teacher, I more than likely would have laughed right to their face. I have nothing against teachers it just never seemed like a career, that I would purse and enjoy. I actually did not plan on going to college because I honestly had no idea what I would pursue in college. I did not make a final decision about my career path until my last year of high school. I just had too many things going on in my personal life to even think about my life after high school.

“Life’s never going to get simpler than being a teenager living with your mom. The world is yours for the taking and now all you have to do is seize the future with your head held up and your heart set toward the goal.” My mother told me this after I got the call from Chuck E. Cheeses asking when I could start the job. I would work thirty hours a week after holding coworkers shifts, while desperately trying to keep my grasp on a secure, successful education. I got another job at McAlister’s Deli working doubles every Saturday and Sunday; stayed up on school nights after work just to try and scrabble up a homework assignment, then I knew this couldn’t be my life after high school which pushed me to add some major modifications towards my high

For the majority of people, high school was a not so great. It's a time of transition and preparation for the real world. Of course, freshman year is always awkward, sophomore year is always a dread, and then junior year. Lots of people hate their junior year and I was one of those people.

I remember being an anxious eighth grader thinking about starting my freshman year of high school. We went from being at the top of the school to being at the bottom of a new one. All of our middle school teachers always told us about how our high school teachers wont “hold our hands” and how we will be on our own. Being in high school is completely different than being in elementary school and middle school. Its almost like each year we have more and more freedom but more responsibility.

When you enter high school, it is way different from middle school. You start to mature, which means you begin to become more intelligent. When I entered, I started focusing more on school and started hanging out less with friends. I started focusing on my work and started getting better grades. High school is important, which means I have to get good grades. In middle school, I would hang out with my friends every day, wouldn’t do my homework, and barely pass. As soon as I entered high school, it felt more difficult. Sometimes you’re just going to have

High school is a place where you let go of the past and shape your future. Everything was so foreign to me during the first couple years of high school. Coming from middle school where everything was so easy and all my classes were chosen for me, it was really hard stepping up to the plate and set goals for my life. When I started high school, I was like the “new” boy on the block. It is like Drake’s new album, “More Life,” coming out to the world. However, unlike Drake, I was not popular at all. I wanted to set my priorities straight as soon as possible because I knew it was important in order to have the best education possible before college.

Let 's start from the beginning. High school for me was a period of transition in my life. A stage of growth, hormonal changes, molding of the personality. Going from middle school to high school I realized that it was not the same thing: we had a different building, we crossed the hallways with older students; the teachers were different. t was supposed to be focused on getting good grades, making my parents feel proud of me and taking advantage of the great opportunity that was given to me which was to have been in one of the best bilingual schools in a country as poor as the Dominican Republic.

Walk up the cold steps. My heart beating exhausting, fast, feeling like It’s close to leap out of my chest.I don’t wish to be here, why am I here. I may gyrate straight away, GO! GO! GO! The thought goes through my head. Panic fleeing going through each of my nerves in my body. My senses strain, each sensation raised multiple.

High school is a lot like a wild jungle! You find so any different people who have been in so many different experiences. Each and every person acts a different way to you and gives you a different scenario. Every person you talk to is a new level on a video game and there is no restart button. In this game you increase difficulty every grade. If you try reaching a new level without keeping up with your peers it would be like playing Pac-man for the first time with a friendship on the line. The freedom to pick your schedule and travel the whole school is an excitement in itself. No one knows you are completely clueless on every subject. In my first few classes the transition from middle school to high school was easy and eye opening. The smell from both guys and girls trying to show off or hide their body odor made it extremely grows. It was worse when someone would not wear deodorant or just smell bad in general. By lunch time, I felt I had worked hard enough to want food. The smell of cafeteria food filled the halls. I met with my friends to debriefing of my thoughts and feelings of the school and

When I was younger teachers, adults, and seniors in high school would tell me that high school would be the best years of my life. All those people had went through high school and experienced everything about high school, they told me their stories and the fun they had in school and outside of school. Freshman year was pretty simple and I had very little challenges, I was having less fun than I was in middle school. I only listened to their good sides about high school and maybe they had hard times, I did not realize that we all have different goals in life, so we have different ways of doing things. I realized by the end of freshman year that high school wasn’t all that great. I believe that in high school there is way too much work for me

To begin, high school seems stressful with all the school work, but that won’t stop me from what I want the most. The thing I’m anticipating most is graduating school and meeting new teachers. Also what I’m looking forward to is having classes with no just my grade. Yes, it might be scary, but it’s different. Also I want to get out of my shell where I hate to present in front of people. I think going to high school would help me with that. I hope I get comfortable with the kids I have class with if I don’t its okay. I know the first years of high school I