Thinking Back Of My Sophomore Year

Sophomore year is an in between year. No longer were we freshman, but we did not quite have the pressure of a junior and senior. I came to realize I was not able to be the perfect student, or even the perfect child, I was always perceived to be. Years of being a teacher’s pet made school effortless, I never knew the feeling of getting something wrong. Just like in Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” I only fantasised what I thought was real about myself, I was to never present a mistake. I could not mess up for it would mean failure, leading to disappointment. Classes were harder, teachers did not have as close as a personal connection with their students, I struggled with this change. My

Growing up, I’d always been expected to do well in school. Which isn’t out of the ordinary, every parent wants their child to be successful and have a beneficial career. So, since good grades were what my parents expected that’s what I got. All throughout elementary, I strived to do my absolute best in every subject. At my sixth grade graduation I was awarded the Presidential Award for Academic Achievement, in my junior high years I did well as well. My eighth-grade year I achieved my goal of obtaining a 4.0 G.p.a. The first year of high school was nerve-racking but I still managed to keep my grades up. However, Sophomore year was definitely a bump in the road for me. In all my ten years of being in school (including head start and kindergarten)

I remember vividly arriving on the first day of seventh grade not really focused on the school year, but focused on my first day as a Collegiate football player that afternoon. However my new English teacher Mr.Bradshaw, noticed that on the first day and changed my priorities very quickly. The first semester of seventh grade was tough for me, learning how to balance school and sports is a vital part of my growth as a student athlete, which I am still trying to figure out today. Seventh grade was definitely a year where I learned a lot, I learned to not eat my snack in assembly from Mr. Rider, I learned that Bubba’s barber shop gives crummy haircuts, I learned the importance of leadership, and preparation, I have learned to dream, and not make dreams my master, I have learned to think but not to make thoughts my aim. I came out of seventh grade confident in myself and in my abilities, and ready to embark on the last part of my middle school journey, eighth grade. I went into eighth grade knowing my role as a leader of the middle school and ready to embrace it. Now at the end of my eighth grade year, having learned a lot in middle

How am I doing in school? Well … As Carl Bard once said,” Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” When I started high school I didn’t want to take on more responsibility, in sports, clubs, extracurricular activities, or even homework. I was lazy, and I didn’t realize everything I needed to do before I could graduate and do everything I wanted in life. So I’ve decided to start getting more involved with my school, through sports, extracurricular activities, and clubs.

You completely moved on from Karson, with the help from Kyle of course, and have became a strong woman. You did great and school and track; you had people looking up to you all the time. Some of the things you wanted to accomplish were getting into NTHS, and you did it! You kept good grades all year and never let them slip below a 80%. You were ahead on your work and turned mostly everything in on time. You learned how to better yourself by not letting people get to you as much as last year and that helped you stay focus on your school work.Looking back, I feel you needed to get rid of the negative people in your life a long time ago. You are a happier person than you were the end of junior year. You created a small friend circle that won’t talk bad about you, that won’t go behind your back and will always be there for you. A valuable lesson you learned from Deputy Bice and Mr. Greenwood was to push what people say off your shoulders. You were in their office a lot over the year when you needed to escape or needed someone to talk to. They helped you a lot by giving you advice on what to do (locking Karson on everything) and by always making you laugh when you were

Towards the end of my senior year of high school, I was preparing for the next chapter of my life. I would be attending UC Davis in the summer for a four weeklong orientation program, specifically for first generation college students. This was the first time I would be leaving home by myself to a different country and it was the first time in over eight years that I would be exposed to the American culture. I did not have any roots in any American city nor did I have a so-called “home state.” However, if there was one thing for sure, it was that Germany was my home and it has been for the majority of my life. In this paper, I will be discussing how the following topics in sociology: culture, socialization, and identity are related to my move from Germany to California as well as how I felt during the entire situation.

I was not always so outspoken and driven to get good grades. Freshman year I was timid, struggled with my grades, and had no idea what the future looked like. Now, I have found exactly what I want to do for the rest of my life and became much more confident then I was freshman year. Along the way I have even made a decision to switch schools. I have transformed a lot along the way from freshman and sophomore year at Portsmouth High School and finishing off at Rogers High School.

I am Connie Alarcon a junior at Valley High School and my growth both personally and academically this school year has been one of the most mentally exhausting years of my life. This year truly made me mentally stronger, as well as changed me as a person and displayed academic growth in me , it taught me valuable things that I know will help me in the future. What this year truly taught me that i will forever value and always try to remember as I go through life is that at the end of the day I will be the only one who cares enough and has to fight for the future I want, nobody else will be able to fight for my future the one I want as much as I can and will.

I still had some family problems involving my brother and some wrong choices but I was more used to it as it was the same thing as the year before and it didn’t really affect me anymore and I just went on with school and sports. I had some problems in the start of the year with science but I slowly got better and raised my grade to a proficient. I once again played many sports and balanced my grades to the best of my ability, really only having trouble in music class. I got through 7th grade much easier than I did in 6th and enjoyed it way more. Sports, once again didn’t go too good on the team side of things, but my skill and playing time increased in football, volleyball, and softball. I kept around the same amount of minutes in basketball as years before, starting mostly at SG, sometimes PG, and hardly ever but sometimes playing

When comparing my life and personality as a freshman to my current life, there are many differences. As a freshman, I was unmotivated and immature. Going into highschool, I wasn’t prepared or used to doing a lot of homework. In elementary and middle school I had been one of the smartest kids in my class, and school was easy. Then when I started 9th grade, I realized I actually had to put effort in my work, so I didn’t. Freshman year I was mean and rude to those around me, including my friends and teachers. I remember myself as loud and obnoxious, and I didn’t really care about other people’s feelings or how my actions would affect others. When I reflect on what I was like, I see myself as the few kids in my PGC group who don’t pay attention

Now, as I look back I have changed a lot. I have more of a growth mindset than fixed. There are moments when I do close myself and think I can’t do something when in back of my head I know I can. My big challenge today still is participating in class. I participate in certain classes but there are certain ones I do not.

During my time at Junior High i’ve always had things come so easy to me, and I loved it. I would get decent grades without having to study for the tests, the homework was straightforward, and the teachers loved me. Being the average know-it-all child I was, I thought this would’ve carried out into high school. I spent my freshman year struggling because I didn’t quite understand that yet. It wasn’t until my second semester of sophomore year I finally made a change, and it showed a considerable amount. I kept the ambition up throughout my junior year, received a job as a CNA, and stayed busy managing wrestling.

I have accepted that not everything will turn out the way I want them to but I am going to move forward my senior year and make the best of it. I wish I could have improved myself and experienced more during my past three years of high school but now I know that I have the ability to be greater than what I limited myself to. The drive was always there, I just did not know how to embrace it. All that I want to accomplish overwhelms me but in order to achieve these long term goals, I have started taking the steps to change the way I see myself and accept that I am not perfect, but perfection is over rated. This fierce desire of excelling in my profession and aspiring to be a philanthropist excites me. I know I cannot change my past but I am not going to let it determine my future. I do not have it all figured out, but I am holding on to my faith and hope of a much fulfilling future. It is never too late to make a difference, not only in myself, but in the

As with many students I think I would like to do over my early high school years. This is not due to this moment of my life being lackluster or full of disappointment or any of those stigmas. My reason for wanting to redo my early years is quite different. The truth is that I want to redo this part of my life so that I am able to leave a bigger impact on those around me and possibly better myself as well. I am not at all disappointed in my performance in school, however, like anyone, I would just like to think if I did stuff differently, I could I have brought more benefits unto myself and possibly others as well, both directly and indirectly. I like to think that everyone is interconnected in a way to where one person’s action partially dictate

Currently, as a junior, I feel that the past three of high school have tremendously shaped my character. Arriving at the doorsteps of Manatee High School, I knew little of leadership, or service. To me, high school was and still is a journey. I've learned to give back to those who have helped me. Through various extracurricular activities, I've not only learned to be a team member, but a leader as well.