Personal Narrative: My Tenth Grade Chemistry

My AP Physics C classroom is filled with whiteboards. You can start writing a problem on one board, circle around the room, and find the answer right next to where you started. With a small class of just eight students, application of physics and calculus to real world scenarios is gripping. I remember contemplating during the MLB World Series fervor how long batters had to react to a pitch. My physics class and I were intrigued. We all grabbed Expo Markers and began solving for velocity, acceleration, impulse, all the while keeping in mind cross-sectional area of the ball, the stride of the pitcher, and other minor variables. I modified the problem by asking the class to use Aroldis Chapman (the fastest pitcher) as the pitcher. We spent hours

most of the work on a group project and am proud of the effort I put into it, only to have

As a proud feminist, I was thrilled to discover that Columbia Engineering is a 47% women, and that the Dean of Engineering, Mary Boyce, is a woman. My AP Physics C class is heavily males and almost all the girls sit together in the back corner. When I sat front and center in the classroom, boys surrounded me because no other girls braved the front row. At Columbia, I know that I will be in an environment with enough women that we can all sit proudly wherever we feel comfortable, and if women are outnumbered, they will work together to have their voices heard just as loudly.

I have always played the same three sports in elementary school, baseball, soccer and basketball but the summer before 7th grade I wanted the try something new and play football but because I didn't know much about it I was having a hard time deciding if I was going to play or not. But When football season came around i signed up.

My 9th grade year was a memory to never forget. 9th grade, i was new to the school just like the rest of the freshmen's i came into the school with, we were not really focused on the education we were more so focused on having fun and seeing different and older people and just experiencing the life of a high schooler. As bad as that may sound it was the truth but that was the year i meant my home boys Block, Tick and Jalen, i knew block and tick for some years already but i meant jalen when i got to high school and instantly we became close like brothers.

One incident that frequently happened to me was teamwork in projects. In teams, there are always people who are unwilling to do their proposed work and would rather rely on friends to do it for them. In my case, it was mostly me doing most of the work. Granted the fact that I was good worker, I was not that good in the teamwork department. Maybe it has to do with me and not my friends but I found them to be uncooperative most of the times. In the email and planning of SG50 event, I would appoint them roles such as editing as well as proof checking. Since English was not my forte, I could rely on my teammates to check the English structure for me. In those two assignments, my team kept playing games and not concentrating on the assignment. Even

Sixth grade the first year of middle school. Some think it will be really hard and some think it will be a piece of cake. For me the first few days are going pretty good. I’ve got all my classes down. There are no mean teachers. Plus, the homework is extremely easy and there is not a lot.

Well in seventh grade was a little hectic for me but I got through it. Emily hadn't moved yet. I mostly hung out with Mikayla, Emily, and who ever stood by the library. I didn't really get the hang out high school til around ninth grade. I don't really even remember most of my classes before ninth grade. I remember sitting by the library in any weather unless the teachers made us go inside the building. Our whole group stood there, there was some I hadn't really talked to yet but I soon became friends with everyone over there. Most of the people I met when I first came to Junior high are now graduated. Ninth grade started Emily had moved. I still hung out with Mikayla though. Then my brother introduced me to this girl named Brianna we hung

As a seventh grader, I was extremely timid towards participating in class discussions or activities, and I would never seek help due to my incapacitating fear of judgement. I worried my teachers and peers would view me as unintelligent or incapable because I did not understand the information we were learning. This fear of judgement eventually transferred into my social life, and I became submissive and felt inclined to do whatever my peers instructed me to. For example, I would willingly help someone with a project or homework despite the fact that my own grades may suffer by doing so. This willingness to place the needs and wellbeing of my peers above my own ultimately led me to emotional and physical exasperation. I began to isolate myself

Fast forward to the track state meet eighth grade year. As I said before success can be a really tough thing to handle. I had gone through an up and down phase after cross country season ended. I didn’t go to practice, I started to not care as much about school and I was acting the completely opposite of the person I was before. After the upset at the state meet, I just didn’t seem to care anymore. I just focused on getting by the rest of the school year but it just didn’t work. My coaches convinced me to keep going they brought me in and had a talk with me. I still remember that day with my coach, Coach H. He was a really important person to me and had grown on me so much. He cared about his athletes like they were his own children. I sat

I am a first grade Dual Language Spanish teacher in an urban district in the state of Connecticut. I teach Language Arts, Math, Science and Social studies in Spanish to my 23 homeroom students, 10 boys and 13 girls, and teach Spanish as a second language to 24 students that are in my Dual Language English partner’s classroom. In my homeroom more than half of the students are English Language Learners, and for many of them this is their first year in an American school. I also have 5 students with special needs. In my Spanish as a second language class I have English Language Learners, but there are no students with special needs.

My current grade is due to my inadequacy of responsibility, my lack of studying for the grammar and reading tests. I have been doing the necessary routine of writing in my planner, filling out the lesson chart everyday, reading Of Mice and Men and turning in the discussion questions, and keeping up with the journal questions. My wrongs are based off not studying and having the likelihood of having significantly low test scores, and incomplete work. My parents use Parentlink but have not been receiving any notifications of my grades. My parents use to check Campus Portal to check it daily for missing work, which I’ve explained they have not been getting notifications from, exceedingly explains most of my missing items. My grade is lower than

It's been six months since I first started my freshman biology course. It's definitely been a learning experience to say the least. As it had been up to this point in my life, I expected everything to come easy when I started this course. Now that I look at it, the topics were actually not hard at all, the problem was the way I viewed the material. Learning through memorization didn't help me when I was given a scenario and asked to identify what's happening.  What made the material “hard” was that I knew what was happening but I couldn't explain why it was happening . To date, photosynthesis and cellular respiration are my favorite chapters since they made me realize the intense complexity of such vital processes. Over the first six months,

When I was young and in sixth grade, I thought that I could do my homework the night before it was due and finish it in five minutes, so I could spend time the previous day doing fun activities.

During my junior year, I was required to do lab for my AP Physics C class. We were required to choose a group of three people for which to work with for the entire year, and of course, like most other people, I decided to choose two of friends. However, during the first lab we did together, I would realize my mistake. My group members were lazy and didn’t have the most motivation to work. Due to this, I found myself almost thrusted into the leadership position within the group because I wanted to somehow make the group function properly. I had to micromanage both of my partners at all times to make sure that they never got sidetracked and made them do the things that they actually wanted to do. One of my friends didn't know much of physics,