Personal Narrative: My Sophomore Year In High School

It was the last last few days of summer before I started my Sophomore year of high school. My freshman year I applied and ran to be Sophomore class president, and I won. Before the start of school SGA (Student Government Association) had the responsibility to welcome and show new students around the school. While showing and bonding with new students I meet two new sophomores students named Ethan and Olivia. Ethan was a very attractive young man who was six feet and had nice dark hair, that was swooped to the right. Olivia on the other hand was a very short and pale girl who had orange hair that was very thin. Olivia and I both found Ethan to be attractive, Olivia made it known to me that she liked Ethan. It was the first day of school and

I made a decision at fifteen most teenagers do not have to make until their senior year of high school. I decided to venture on my own in order to better my future. Sophomore year, I started attending a residential high school for top performing students in the state of Louisiana. Over the past three years, I lived alone while my parents have traveled all over the continental United States therefore learning how to take care of myself at a young age. Additionally, in a diverse learning community such as the Louisiana School of Math, Science, and the Arts (LSMSA), I was able to learn how to work and live with students whose minds function differently than mine.

Being a freshman is the hardest of your four years in high school. Have you ever been pressured to be the best person you can be? This is how my year was as a freshman. Freshman year was the most different I never thought I would of found my way around the school when I first started to go there. Freshman year was the best year throughout my years of high school and it was the only year I had friends. During this year I had a lot of anxieties which dealt with me thinking I’m gonna be alone and not have any friends throughout the year to support me through the whole thing. Also, I would think of the pressure of not doing good in any of my classes so I would think it would affect my GPA in the future. The transition from middle school to high school was a different type of thing to do.

Sophomore year. Worst year of my life. I’m not even going to surecoat it. It was terrible. The only thing that was going good for me was school. I excel or CAN. My mom was getting bad again. I had to juggle cheer, dance, school, my mom, and my baby sister all at once. I was stressed to the max. I got through it surprisingly. On the brink. It was hell. One person, out of the entire world helped me through everything. My boyfriend. He, I would consider my “real” boyfriend. He helped me through a lot. He helped me through bad times and made the good times better. As sophomore year ended, my mom had the worse news to me i could ever imagine. She told me that she has throat cancer. It screwed everything up for me, even my boyfriend, couldn’t

Freshman year of high school i had to go to tryouts for soccer at this time the total number of kids trying out was over 40 and most of the time the team size was only around 35 so i knew there was gonna be cuts. So at the beginning of the week i showed up and we started practice i felt okay throughout conditioning but then when we went to foot skills i knew immediately that i was lacking a lot. The next day came and we worked on passing which i felt comfortable with as i played center mid 8th grade so i felt above average in that area. The third and final day of tryouts we worked on shooting which i was middle of the line but i had never really played forward .

While entering high school was a petrifying year for me, I did not want to go through the next four years in fear everyday. As a result, I joined an enrichment called Chicago Voyagers. I loved being in the outdoors because I get to embrace the nature before technology has filled our minds and that is what we revolve around constantly. Also, through this non-profit organization, I get to meet new friends and gain some personal skills like leadership, teamwork, and communication. I do not want people to see me as timid and someone who does not have a voice. Even though I may still be quiet, I see myself becoming more outgoing and loud compared to my past self. When I reflect on my time in high school, I have made most of my friends because I

My freshman year of high school was a new experience for me. It was a different idea to get used to compared to middle school,. but within a week I understood how going around high school worked. At first it was a bit confusing at first figuring out how I was going to remember when and where my classes were in a day. I was scared of not being able to pass my classes at the correct standard to continue my life after high school. I feared that if I let go of one thing, everything in my personal and social life was going to fall apart. The students weren’t that scary to me. Some of them I knew from middle school and elementary school so I was a bit comfortable with that. The only thing that did scare me about other students was when they were

My Freshman year was one of the most surprising years I had at Euclid because when I came out of Pinnacle Academy I thought high school would be easy, but after Freshman orientation I realize that high school would be a roller coaster of a ride for me. The first day of my high school life at Euclid began August 14, 2013 lucky for me it was just Freshman and Sophomore students I was glad because sometimes your parents or family members will tell you things that aren’t true like Senior’s will stuff you in lockers, steal your money and etc but I realized that I’m a different person and I won’t be one of those students. But overall my first year at Euclid wasn’t that bad

“No matter how good you are, someone is always going to be against you. But never let them be the limit of your success” (Terry Mark). Throughout my first 3 years of high school, I was always a shy/quiet girl who wanted nothing to do with anyone. I did not want to do after school activities, I did not want to participate in class, I didn’t like going to the football games anymore since I was no longer on the cheer team and I did not want to go to school dances, all mainly because I thought about what people thought or said about me, and it bothered me… a lot. Since I had friends growing up doing things they shouldn’t be doing at their age, like drugs, partying, going out, etc., not acting like them I felt out of place, like I didn’t fit in.

With every year that goes by, it seems that high school gets to be more stressful for students. With big stakes and college applications ahead of many of my younger peers, there also seems to be more stress and less opportunities taken towards learning. From the countless classes that I have taken over my time in high school, the ones that I did not do so well in the beginning turned out to be the ones I have learned the most from. To give an example, let me talk about my first F I have ever received on a test in my life. In my sophomore year of high school, I decided to take the infamous Algebra II Honors taught by one of the toughest teachers at my school. The class in the beginning was a struggle because I was not understanding the concepts and I was scared to ask for

I have always enjoyed playing sports, I’ve played Varsity Soccer and Lacrosse since my Freshman year of high school, but since Freshman year, it has become increasingly difficult to balance academics, sports, and other extracurricular activities. First semester of Junior year I watched many of my friends come to school completely exhausted, only looking forward to going home and going to sleep, numb to the idea of having to sit in a classroom for seven hours, go play championship games, and then go home to at least three hours of homework and studying. I too was being affected by the expectations that were set before us, waiting for the day that I would crack under the pressure. When I did crack, it was after playing in a three-hour soccer

Fourteen years ago I was born at Munster Community Hospital. It was March 5, 2001 around 7:30 in the morning. When I was able to go to the house I still live in today. My mom would always tell me that my brother and sister loved me. When I got older I went to The YMCA for preschool. I went there for two years. Those two years flew by, I blinked and was suddenly in Kindergarten. It was the first day and I remember making two friends that I am still friends with today. Next, was first grade, I was in my class with one of my friends from kindergarten. That year went by fast. Second grade was one of the best years because I met my very best friend. We are still really close today. Third grade is when all of friends were in one class except

My Freshman Year was the toughest year of my high school career. It was the year when I gave up on everything. I was placed into classes which I believe that I did not belong in. I was influenced by the people Gender: Female Hispanic/Latino? Yes A-G Subject Requirements A preliminary tally of your validated coursework shows you need the following additional yearlong courses to fulfill the "ag" subject requirements. History/Social Sciences: 0 English: 0 Mathematics: 0 Laboratory Science: 0 Language Other Than English: 0 Visual and Performing Arts: 0 College-Prep Electives: 0 around me. I was surrounded by older people who didn't care and had no life. Especially my older sisters, I would ditched with them because I felt like I had to, because they were my

As I enter my second semester of my senior year, I reminisce at how much I have developed physically and also academically throughout my high school career. My freshmen year was tough, to say the least. I was furthermore focused on my popularity than my grades. My sophomore year, I understood that popularity was not as important as my grades. I tried harder to get my grades up and participate in clubs that would better my future. Junior year, I almost had straight A’s the whole year. I pushed myself to focus on school and cut the distractions out. The grades I received my junior year determined what I was able to do my senior year. My successful grades meant I was able to early enroll my senior year at Eastern Florida State College. This will

I was told that junior year would be one of my most stressful years in high school; I was expecting it to be academically, but I couldn’t have imagined being struck by such heaviness this year; it was nothing like my little sister sitting on me to wake me up. A cloud appeared just before 11th grade started, and everything started feeling darker and slower. What was worse, having no motivation or finding no joy in my old hobbies and interests, I don’t know. But either way, the way I was affected academically put me in a place I’ve never been in before, my grades this year are the lowest they’ve been in years. Which, in turn, made me feel even lower. Knowing what’s wrong, and not having the impetus to fix it, while feeling like you’re the worst