Volcanon: The Joy Of Attending High School

Education never interested me. My parents weren't bothered if I wasn't into school. As long I got a "C or D" I was safe. It wasn't till I got accepted into the ACE program at Gateway Community College that I started to value my education. This program allowed me to attend Community College while in high school. I grew strict towards my education meaning I no longer just aimed to pass. As I changed my attitude towards my education my parents did the same thing. They no longer tolerated "C's or D's". I noticed once I started to root for myself I seemed to gain support from my peers, teachers and most importantly my parents. Ever since that change multiple doors of opportunities have opened. Of course the journey I took to change my attitude wasn't

By passing my high school final exams and joining college wouldmake me a successful individual and my future looked to be bright and remarkable. However,the reality on the ground is life in high school is more or less the same life in college. I had tostrive to excel in the academic works that were assigned to me to throughout the course. Inpursuing my degree the perceptions that I held regarding the fact that life would be easier inhigh school was misplaced and very wrong. . I have to work even extra hard in college so asto outshine some of the brilliant brains that are pursuing the same course I am doing. Theaspect of undertaking assignments and submitting them in time makes life in college to be thesame as life in high school if not

My curiosity about going to college overrode my fear. As an older student, I was afraid that I would not be able to make it. I thought I couldn’t keep up with younger students and their sharp mind. I was worried that my family life would prevent me from getting course work done. I was worried because I am the only one of my parents' children that has gone to college. Many negative thoughts entered my mind about why I shouldn't go to College. Here I am, almost two years into college and there are two things that have helped me overcome my fear. The first is my hunger for knowledge. I really love learning new things. I may not always excel perfectly, but I have learned so much and know that there is so much more. The next thing that

I didn’t really care for it in high school but I realized that school will equal success and thats what I want for my family. I want to make my parents proud and my girlfriend. This is the reason why I’m going to college to better myself and become a man of good morals. I know for a fact school will guarantee me being finically stable. It will take me a while and Im going to do so many sacrifices but it’s going to be worth it at the

Obtaining bad grades in the past has motivated me to achieve success. My family has also persuaded me to be successful. College has always been on my radar since day one.

“Enjoy this easy life while you have it, because once you get to college, no one cares how hard you have it.” This common phrase was preached to me throughout my high school years. It was instructed to me so often that I built a fear for college, although that I knew college would be my next step in life. It was a necessity for a successful future for myself. I dreaded the teachers, the social aspect, the homework, the exams, and the people. I became close-minded to something I had not even experienced yet. I allowed for that phrase to get inside my head and build a wall around the idea of college.

As a young teen, I decided that I didn’t want to live paycheck to paycheck or struggle to pay for food and clothes. I decided that I never wanted to suffer from excessive debt, unemployment, or food insecurity. These are all things my family struggles with, but believe that college is my path to a better

I didn’t go to college straight out of High School. It wasn’t on my agenda. After High School I took a year off and did nothing except make a little money babysitting, sleeping in, and there were about two months where I took up jogging. The following summer I felt this pang in my stomach when I saw pictures online of people getting ready to go back to college. So far in my life I hadn’t liked school, but there was this part in my head that said I only didn’t like it because I couldn’t choose what I wanted to do. Until now I had avoided the idea of going to college except now online school was a thing. That lasted a year. First, I couldn’t afford it. Second, I figured out the career path that I had wanted to take my whole life sucked and I hated doing it.

About a year ago I was the type of person who didn't care about school, and never thought it was important. What I didn't know was that your education and collage could decide your future. I had always struggled with learning because of my ADHD, i could never pay attention, and to this day I have attention issues. But I thought maybe I could change that so that I could be better and more educated, maybe I could actually feel smart. Thats when I got to work, i knew right then and there I wanted to go to Stanford with an academic and athletic scholarship! I wanted to be in the Oklahoma swimming all-star team, and I wanted to be one of the smartest and organized kids in the school!

I continued to scrape through school until I had an exceptional science teacher, Mr. Patinelli for Freshman Biology. He was way ahead of the mindset curve. He told me I could learn and be smart. He invited me to join in his early morning Advanced Biology class, which I did. Suddenly, not only was I taking more classes than my peers, I was in class with upperclassmen. The more he believed in me, the more I believed in myself. By the time my freshman year was over, I knew I would be going to college, and I would be a

Throughout middle school and my first two years of high school I approached my education with a very negative attitude, I possess a 3.079 GPA, and 1030 SAT (which I am re taking) for my school this is below average. My first two years of high school I never did homework, studied, or even really got involved. This is one of my biggest regrets. During my first two years of school I was getting Bs, and Cs in classes I could have easily been receiving As in if I tried harder. It was not until my junior year when it hit me that college was quickly approaching and schools I dreamed of going to were mostly likely unrealistic. Rather than dwelling on my poor educational decisions I decided to take action, and try harder, and study longer. This has

Some people go to college to try and do what others in their family did not do. They try to do well for their parent’s sake, even if they do not like college one bit. Now, that may motivate them from the start, but as life goes on, they see that they do not have any help from their mom and dad or other family members. They start feeling alone and start to think that they need to do what is right for them. Some are there for popularity. They want to be the cool guy, not to study and make good grades. They do not see that their grades are really important. As time goes by, they see reality kicking in. They do not have time to boost their grade up, so they do what is easy and they drop out of college and base their life on “what will I do today?” Grades are what predict people’s future. It all pays off in the end, their family will be in a better home and their kids would want to motive themselves to have better jobs as

College life and sometimes life its self can often and frequently seem challenging and overwhelming. In all likelihood, you were taught at a juvenescence age that getting an education would be conducive to living a prosperous lifestyle. For that reason, your primary motivator to attend college is so you can live the American Dream, an ionic symbol that symbolizes an ideal lifestyle of one achieving success in America. It is well known in today's society that the economy is endeavoring to thrive in such a competitive world, and without a college degree or skilled trade life can become financially unmanageable. Subsequently, after completing high school you enrolled in a post secondary institution, college. You selected a filed of study you would

It was not until high school that I started to realize a problem with the school system I was in. I felt like the coursework was not challenging. I was hardly putting in effort but was still receiving very high grades. I was not motivated to work hard and rarely pushed myself, because I did not have to. I even graduated high school as salutatorian but I

As a child I was a straight A student. I was advanced for my age and was put in special learning groups for “gifted” students. I liked school and wanted to get good grades. Somewhere along the way, around sixth or seventh grade, I quit caring about school, mostly because I never understood what the point to it was or how it could help. I always had family members around me telling me to stay in school and do well so you don’t have to work hard laborious jobs your whole life. I obviously never listened and thought they were dumb nor did I want to listen. To me school was a waste of time and I did not know why I was there. I had an experience a few years later in eleventh grade that changed my whole outlook on school and life that excited me about the future for the first time in my job shadowing.