Some of us look forward to high school, while some of us dread it. High school has been a enjoyable but stressful three years for me. Things would have been much different if I knew what I know today. Yes, it’s true what your parents say - you live and you learn- but high school only comes around one time and each year carries on to the next. Being a three graduate at Carl Sandburg, I’ve had to deal with four years worth of knowledge into three years. It’s stressful but graduating early has helped me mature way faster than others around me.
Freshmen year has definitely taught me the most. Personally at the beginning of the year, I told myself I would try my hardest and therefore signed up for academically challenging courses like honors
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Organization helps you find things easier and faster and therefore won’t make you lazy or procrastinate. I know high school students still want to have a social life and go out and have fun, but if you procrastinate this affects your schedule later on. Procrastination causes unnecessary levels of stress. The project or essay will not be as good as it would have been if you had worked on it over the course of a few days instead of one one night. Procrastination definitely is a disease. You carry it with you for the rest of your high school education and also beyond high school. Learning to organize your time and your resources, decreases your stress level and helps you maintain a social life at the same …show more content…
Yes, I said get involved! High school is not all about sleeping and wearing sweatpants. Getting involved with a sport or club during freshmen year helps you progress into higher status on the team. Being involved early on, you meet requirements for opportunities early like being able to join NHS your junior year. Being on teams or in clubs, helps you meet new people with the same goals and ambitions as you. Having people you can relate to makes high school much funner and helps it pass by smoother because seeing people around you with the same goals and ambitions, you gain more motivation and inspiration to keep trying your best. According to Mira Azar, a Carl Sandburg high school freshmen “I really wish I joined clubs early on during the year, it’s too late to join now and I’m not eligible for NHS which requires two co-curriculars to be considered for induction. It also would’ve helped me new
August 15, 2013 was the date that I entered high school. I had high hopes for the upcoming high school years to be my best years ever since I was in sixth grade. I expected that I can make more friends, join more club activities, and can choose classes that I really like. Although I was very enthusiastic and eager to start the all new school years, I also had a lot of worries and confusion about it also. The night before I start my freshmen year, the thoughts of failing classes, and be able to graduate high school kept
Many people say that high school should be the best four years of your life. Most of us entered high school with this idea in mind, determined to enjoy every second of it. The confidence and energy that we held that first September allowed us to dive right into what has been an amazing four
My high school years, unlike the past years of steady achievements, felt much more like a sine graph with ups and downs. To begin with, I conquered my freshman year in a breeze. My easily achievable classes not only earned myself confidence, but also admiration and respect from my classmates and teachers. As a result, I comfortably acclimated myself to the status of a star student.
When people tell you that high school would be the best time of your life, you don’t really understand the magnitude of what they’re saying until your time is coming to an end. A lot of people say that you “find yourself” in college. I, however, had the advantage of finding myself in high school. These past six years have been awesome, and I really mean it. I know it might not seem believable for a high school student to enjoy school, but I’m not lying about this stuff. I felt this way even before there was a scholarship to apply for. My mom taught me from a young age to enjoy going to school, and as much stress as it might have caused me over the years, I still loved every second of it. It’s easy to focus on the undesirable parts like sleep
Throughout my high school career I have had many ups and many downs. High School by far has been the biggest challenge I’ve ever had to overcome. Freshman year and sophomore year were my easiest years academic wise but my junior and senior years have been very challenging. But while facing these challenges I have learned many things that may be helpful for those future seniors who are trying to get through high school.
As we go on in life we face many challenges and new situations that we deal with. A new situation that most people deal with is college and all the changes that come along with it. What many people don't realize is that high school, in many ways, is similar and differrent from college. Not only are people changing but the surroundings and work change as well. There are some things that seem to never change such as some work and people.
I just can’t believe there is only few more days of high school left. As the days are getting closer and closer, it's getting sad. I still remember the day I stepped into Maine East High School as a Freshman, at that time, all I wished for was to graduate from this school with good grades. High school was not the way I imagined, it is way different from what I thought and definitely different from Middle School. Freshman year was the “exploring/adventure” year, finding where each classes were, what activities/clubs were offered at this school and many more. Freshman year went quickly and then Sophomore year came up. Sophomore year was probably the least stressful year in high school but from Sophomore year my family and friends started asking me the scariest question “What are you doing after high school, which career?
I am writing to give you some advice that I wish I had known coming into my senior year. To begin, Congratulations for successfully making it this far in your high school journey. For some, this experience flies by and is the best time of their lives. For others, the opposite is true; however, it is such a blessing to be able to say that you are on the track to graduation, and you may not realize it, but this year will be full of challenges that you may or may not choose to take on.
High school has been a transforming experience. None of us are the same as we were when we walked in as freshmen. Most of us have matured. Like many of you, I am thankful for teachers like Coach Adair and Ms. Dibble, who taught us not what to think but how to think. We have learned how to see the world from others’ perspectives after we have climbed into their skins and walked around in them. Thanks to Mr. Pacharne for teaching us how to work out math and physics problems. If it were not for the challenge and beauty of AP Physics, I would not have considered engineering. When I look back on my high school years, I will not remember what the Zimmerman telegram said or where the medulla is located, but I will remember the lifelong friends and mentors I made and the reasoning skills I
Entering high school is the beginning of a whole new learning experience. Transitioning from middle school, high school presents more classes, students, and a bigger campus. It brings new expectations and responsibilities to each of us. High school also offers fresh chances to make new friends, try new sports and activities, and really explore who we are as individuals. The goal is to maintain good grades, score high on the SAT test, and keep a positive attitude so colleges and universities will accept you. Of course it's not as easy at sounds, but it's achievable. It requires a lot of work and dedication to every subject. Some students breeze their way through while others live in misery trying to pass their
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.
I have a lot of things to think about before i start high school. I’m dreading it , yet i’m looking forward to it. I’m looking forward to the activities and the after school activities , but i’m dreading the grades. High school will be fun,exciting , and even scary at some points.
Losing friends, meeting new people, first job, first car, boyfriend, getting my license. Throughout the last four years of high school I’ve experienced a lot of new things and learned a lot on the way. I remember walking into school on the first day of freshman year; I was thinking that these are going to be a very long couple of years. I was wrong; these past four years have gone by so fast, so I guess my dad was right when he said they’d fly by.
Throughout elementary and middle school, I thought of high school as a terrifying place, full of responsibilities and sleepless nights. However, as I went to freshman year I realized that high school was way more than that. Being in high school is not scary, nor hard; High school is just the place where all your dreams come true off of your hard work. It also has the power to make you see things around you from a different perspective, which will undeniably make you attached to everything in it. Yes, high school should always be enjoyed nonetheless; it will never cease to throw curveballs at you and you always have to be prepared to overcome it.
Yet, the education does not stop at middle school, for high school really puts all the basic skills from elementary and middle school to work as the assignments and the exams become more challenging. We do not only learn about reading, writing, history, and math, we learn about the people around us as we associate with different personalities, and as we see what we have grown up to be and what we want to be later in life. Accordingly, the high school years are a time when teachers emphasize the importance of graduating and attending college in order to have a “succesful future.”